Children, Youth & Family Trendletter
A Measure of How Families Are Doing
ISU Extension Resources for Family & Youth
Additional Web Resources
CYFERnet
Data Sources on the Web

Children, Youth & Family Trendletter   Trendletter focus Access instructions Other ISU Extension family publications   Trendletter Titles: Iowa's Community Empowerment Legislation Focus on Fathering Welfare to Work "I Am Your Child" National Campaign Promoting Access to Health Care Building Villages Youth Need the Power of Assets Young Families

A Measure of How Families Are Doing by Karen Shirer, PhD Created for the 1994 International Year of the Family Ten categories help determine if and where a family is at risk. The descriptors provide general characteristics of three types of families.   This chart is a PDF file. It can be downloaded, printed, and reproduced as needed. If you need more information about PDF files or a free Acrobat reader please look at the PDF help section.

ISU Extension Resources for Families & Youth Aging Child Care E-SET: Extension Science, Engineering & Technology Family Resiliency Financial Management Growing in the Garden Nutrition Parenting Public Policy Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10 - 14 Youth

Additional Web Resources Children's Defense Fund http://www.childrensdefense.org/ CDF began in 1973 and is a private, nonprofit organization supported by foundations, corporation grants and individual donations. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ Grants and Funding, Resources, Programs, Publications, and Calendar Harvard Family Research Project http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~hfrp/index.html HFRP conducts research about programs and policies that serve children and families throughout the United States. Publishing and disseminating its research widely, HFRP plays a vital role in examining and encouraging programs and policies that enable families and communities to help children reach their potential. The Bulletin:   http://www.hec.ohio-state.edu/famlife/bulletin/bullmain.htm Ohio State University Extension, Human Development and Family Life. The Bulletin publishes four issues per year of research information related to families. Some of the topics include: Adolescent Problem Behavior, Caregiving for the Elderly, Fathering, and Integrating Services for Families. Children, Youth and Family Consortium, University of Minnesota http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/ Provides information related to the health, education and welfare of children, youth and families.

CYFERnet http://www.cyfernet.org/ CYFERnet is a national network of Land Grant university faculty and county Extension educators working to support community-based educational programs for children, youth, parents and families. Child Resources Youth Resources Parent and Family Resources Community Resources Evaluation Resources

Data Sources on the Web KIDS COUNT Project http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/ KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. The 2000 KIDS COUNT Data Book updates the annual state-by-state assessment of children's well-being. The study also provides background information for Iowa, which includes demographic, economic, and health data. Extension to Communities-Community Data http://www.extension.iastate.edu/communities/communitydata.html Census Services CD-Dial Community development data, survey and analysis laboratory, Department of Sociology Data for Decision Makers County-specific publications containing data on population, economics, agriculture, employment, retail trade PROfiles, Public Resources Online Public access to local community and economic development data on employment, income, economics, demographics and more for Iowa and eleven other states in the Midwest provided by Extension to Communities and the Department of Economics and Iowa State University Child and Family Health Profiles Child and Family Health Profiles:   http://www.extension.iastate.edu/communities/healthprofiles.htm An ISU Extension Series of Fact Sheets in cooperation with the Iowa Department of Public Health and the Drake University Health Center.

This project was partially funded by the Extension Service U.S. Department of Agriculture, under special project #95-EYAR-1-2010; #99-EYAR-1-0476; and 2001-41520-01133.

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Created 9/96
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