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		The Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families works to protect and promote the rights and well-being of children and families through research, education, and advocacy.
		AACF filed an amicus brief with the Arkansas Supreme Court in the Lakeview case.
		The Arkansas Public Policy Panel is dedicated to achieving social and economic justice in Arkansas by organizing and strengthening local citizen groups statewide and building coalitions.
	www.schoolfunding.info /states/ar/adv_ar.php3 (178 words)

	NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source
		Despite some positive changes, Arkansas children and families continue to face an array of challenges, ranging from a lack of high-paying jobs to a tax system that hurts low-income families to jobs without health insurance benefits, according to a report released last week from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families also plans to push for a state earned-income tax credit, similar to the federal tax credit for low-income workers that is designed to offset the burden of Social Security taxes and provide an incentive to work.
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families also plans to push for an increase in the minimum wage from $ 5.
	www.nwanews.com /adg/News/142638 (784 words)

	Contact
		According to the 2002 Kids Count Data Book, the health status of Arkansas's children still lags behind the rest of the nation—ranking 45th in teen births, 47th in child deaths and 43rd in infant mortality.
		In order to provide outreach and public education about child and adolescent health concerns to Arkansas parents, the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) is collaborating with the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) on Health Raps, a children's health initiative targeting 12 children's health issues in the state of Arkansas.
		AACF is the lead agency for both the Covering Kids and Families initiative and the Kids County project.
	www.aetn.org /healthraps/html/contact.html (285 words)

	Families USA: Arkansas
		This state-specific page on Arkansas provides new materials published by Families USA, key health contacts, state government links, news and views from the state, and other resources that might be helpful to Arkansas advocates.
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is an independent, statewide, nonprofit, child advocacy organization that conducts research and provides information to the media, lawmakers, and the public about issues concerning children and their families.
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families works to protect and promote the rights and well-being of Arkansas children and their families through research, education and advocacy.
	www.familiesusa.org /site/PageServer?pagename=States_Arkansas (942 words)

	Families Worldwide News Articles
		ANDREW A. A quarter of Arkansas' children were in poverty in 1996, giving the state one of the 10 highest rates in the nation, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
		The fact that Arkansas' child-poverty rates have remained high in a decade of unparalleled economic prosperity in the state and the nation disturbs child advocates and demographers alike.
		And, advocates say, being poor is worse for young children because they tend to miss out on opportunities later, locking them into a cycle of poverty.
	www.fww.org /famnews/1103e.htm (994 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family: Advocacy Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families - Information on mission to protect and promote through research, education and advocacy the rights and well-being of Arkansas children and their families, to assure that they have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives.
		Children's Defense Fund--Minnesota - Works to provide health coverage for uninsured and underinsured children; affordable child care for working parents; improved, consistent child support; welfare reform that helps low-income families and children; safety for children and reunification for families through reforms to the child welfare system.
		Children's Rights Council - National non-profit organization that works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status.
	dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Children,_Youth_and_Family/Advocacy_Groups (4269 words)

	Amy Rossi, LCSW \| ACHI Staff \| Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
		Amy Rossi retired in 2004 as Executive Director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a statewide non-profit child advocacy organization, to join ACHI as Associate Director for Community Relations.
		Rossi’s 23 years with Arkansas Advocates earned her recognition as one of the state’s best resources on issues affecting children and families.
		Subsequently, she was on the faculty of the University of Arkansas School of Social Work as a trainer for youth service workers.
	www.achi.net /achi_staff/amy_rossi.asp (264 words)

	Arkansas News Bureau - State Group Lobbying To Save AmeriCorps Funding
		Arkansas Advocates sent an e-mail to Kids Count Coalition members Monday, urging them to notify their congressmen and tell them not to cut AmeriCorps' budget.
		Albert Schneider, executive director of the Arkansas Commission on National and Community Service, estimated that the state could see an 80 percent reduction in the volunteers and grant funding if nothing is done.
		--In-home training to nearly 1,300 parents of children from infancy to age 5 to help them become better parents and to prepare their children for success in school.
	www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2003/06/17/59926.html (410 words)

	Under "Covering Kids" Arkansas Launches ARKids to Increase Health Care Coverage of Uninsured Children
		From 1999 through 2001, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a nonprofit child advocacy organization located in Little Rock, led a statewide coalition in an effort to increase the number of eligible children in the state enrolled in government-funded health insurance programs.
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families set a goal of enrolling 90,000 children in ARKids First during the three-year project, meeting or exceeding Arkansas' own 1998 goal.
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families continues as the state grantee under the successor program.
	www.rwjf.org /portfolios/resources/grantsreport.jsp?filename=035590.htm&iaid=132 (2631 words)

	FairEconomy.org - Analyst: Charities to Suffer if Tax Estate Tax Nullified
		Permanent repeal of the federal estate tax would cut charitable donations to Arkansas organizations by at least $ 61 million annually, according to a study promoted Friday by several national and local groups that say their aim is fair taxation.
		Estimates of the loss of charitable donations in Arkansas and other states were based on research over the last several decades comparing charitable donation to changes in federal estate tax law, Irons said.
		Arkansas Advocates' education reform proposal would be funded in part by "decoupling" Arkansas' estate tax from changes in the federal law.
	www.faireconomy.org /press/ufenews/2003/Estate_Tax_Arkansas.html (832 words)

	NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan child advocacy organization founded in 1977.
		For work in the Arkansas Legislature in 2005 to improve the lives of children and families in Arkansas, Borhauer and Bisbee were named Champions of Children, said Paul Kelly, a senior policy analyst for Arkansas Advocates.
		Bisbee was cited by the group as one of the key legislative leaders in the state’s response to the Lake View school-funding case, and in the state’s education reform efforts.
	www.nwanews.com /story.php?paper=bcdr§ion=News&storyid=21670 (248 words)

	Archives - Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
		The Arkansas Assessment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
		Arkansas Advocates is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Initiative "Covering Kids & Families", Enterprise Corporation of the Delta and Arkansas Children's Hospital to enroll children in the state's child health insurance program and Medicaid.
		Arkansas Advocates has recently become involved in the work of the Health Adequacy Committee established in the 2003 legislation session.
	www.aradvocates.org /research/archives/issues_category.asp?id=5 (402 words)

	Arkansas News Bureau - Arkansans Prefer Taxes For Education Vs. Budget Cuts
		The poll by Zogby International was released Monday by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and the Arkansas Kids Count Coalition.
		Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families is a nonprofit child advocacy organization that conducts research, education, and advocacy on public policy issues critical to children.
		The Arkansas Kids Count Coalition has a membership of over 50 organizations and over 1,000 individuals working together to bring children's issues to the top of the public policy agenda, according to a news release.
	www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2003/02/25/37058.html (674 words)

	Res Ipsa Loquitur: The State of DFCS
		Arkansas' Department of Family and Child Services remains problematic, according to a...
		Arkansas' Department of Family & Child Services remains problematic, according to a new report by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
		Visits between foster children and their natural parents did not occur in some cases where the goal was reunification.
	res-ipsa.the-blinding-white-light.com /archives/003091.html (403 words)

	Arkansas Times Blogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lynn is one of the founders of Arkansas Support Network, a non-profit agency serving children and adults with developmental disabilities, where she currently serves as Program Director of the Family Support Network.
		A native of Northwest Arkansas, she has a degree in political science from the University of Arkansas and a nursing degree from Memphis State University.
		She is a past member of the board of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and was recognized for her work on behalf of Arkansas children with the National Volunteer Child Advocate of the Year award in 2002.
	www.arktimes.com /Weblogs/WeblogItemEditor.aspx?Type=2&ParentID=5ab0e900-76fa-4f3c-b256-ecf1abe5cb77&WeblogID=dabe8285-8214-4a72-ae7c-7ed16bb5ed5b (261 words)

	Matilda's Advice and Rants: Plea from Ark. Advocates for Children and Families- Thanks INS, good job. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		More than 30 children were stranded as a result of the recent immigration raid at the Petit Jean Poultry plant in Arkadelphia.
		The children, who were left behind when their parents were picked up during the raid, are in need of your help.
		You did however get one thing right here, these children were abandoned by their "poor oppressed" illegal alien parents in order to save some money on the smuggling ticket back across our border.
	matildaintherock.blogspot.com /2005/08/plea-from-ark-advocates-for-children.html (927 words)

	American Forum :: Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Over half of the babies born in the state of Arkansas are brought into this world with Medicaid as their sole source of health care.
		Arkansas' families and children will be especially hurt by these massive program cuts.
		It is time to protect our struggling families and to think realistically about the destructive implications of these upcoming budget cuts.
	www.mediaforum.org /RecentDisplay.cfm?ID=2199 (446 words)

	Arkansas First Families » Exhibits » Old State House
		James Conway, the first governor of the state of Arkansas, came to Arkansas as a surveyor in 1820 and served in the Territorial Legislature.
		Conway was a founding member of an Arkansas dynasty known as "the Family," a political alliance that dominated Arkansas until the Civil War.
		Conway's wife, the former Mary Jane Bradley, came from a prominent Arkansas frontier family and was actively involved in furthering her husband's political career.
	www.oldstatehouse.com /exhibits/permanent/first_families.asp (319 words)

	"Corporal Punishment", _Computers, Cellos, and Call-in Radio: Violence Prevention Tools for the 90's_, by Susan Smith, ...
		Hitting other children, in fact, is one of the offenses for which parents spanked.
		Old-timers may tell you that the problem with today's children is that their parents don't whip them enough.
		It contributes to a climate of violence, it implies that society approves of the physical violation of children, it establishes an unhealthy norm.
	www.cei.net /~rcox/computrs.html (528 words)

	Where can I go to shoot? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families - Largely devoted to the impact of welfare reforms and education on children. Also tracked changes in the concealed carry law.
		Arkansas Academy of Pediatrics (Pushed hard for SB394 (Argue) the mandatory firearms storage bill; HB1543 Broadway Prohibits possession of a deadly weapon on public or private school property or on school buses or at school bus stops or on the property of any public or private institution or higher education)
		Arkansas River Education Cooperative - seems to be focused on education.
	www.arpa-online.org /who_supports_gun_control.html (473 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Arkansas Supreme Court Unanimously Overturns Ban on Foster Parenting by Gay People
		Several prominent child welfare groups took an interest in the case, with friend-of-the-court briefs being submitted by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, the Child Welfare League of America, the National Association of Social Workers and its Arkansas chapter, the American Psychological Association and its Arkansas chapter, and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute.
		Children of lesbian and gay parents are just as well-adjusted as children of heterosexual parents.
		The exclusion of gay people and people with gay family members may be harmful to children because it excludes a pool of effective foster parents.
	www.aclu.org /lgbt/parenting/26050prs20060629.html (815 words)

	Hillary Rodham Clinton
		She founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and served on the board of the Arkansas Children's Hospital.
		The program sent teachers into the homes of underprivileged families to train parents to work with their children in school preparedness and literacy.
		In recognition of her professional and personal accomplishments, Hillary was named Arkansas' Woman of the Year in 1983 and its Young Mother of the Year in 1984.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/hc42.html (522 words)

	Report Says Ark. Has Fewer Children Without Health Insurance; Lower than National Average (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A new report says the share of Arkansas children not covered by health insurance declined from 19.4 percent in 1996 to 11 percent in 2002—lower than the national average of 12 percent.
		The report also says that the percentage of insured children in households with incomes at or below 200 percent of the poverty level is nearing the percentage of covered children in homes with incomes above that level.
		To help the 11 percent of children who are still uninsured, Sanders said, her group plans to support the Medicaid budget request from the state Department of Human Services.
	www.insurancejournal.com /news/southcentral/2004/12/13/48576.htm?print=1 (326 words)

	Family Help in Arkansas
		It is the main point of contact between the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and non-profit missing children organizations in the state.
		Assists in recovering missing children across the country and serves as a support team to the many families of missing children.
		Innovative program focusing on the prevention of violence in our children’s schools by using the positive influence of fathers for a two-fold purpose: (1) to provide an unobtrusive security presence, and (2) to provide a positive and active role-model for children at the school.
	www.focusas.com /Arkansas.html (1212 words)

	Rural Kids Count Report
		In Arkansas, nine of the ten poorest counties are rural.
		Though rural children in poverty experience many of the same hardships – hunger, poor housing, limited educational options, lack of access to health services — their basic needs have not received the same amount of attention.
		The Rural Kids Count project, a partnership between the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy and the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, explored the challenges faced by families and children living in poverty in rural areas.
	www.odl.state.ok.us /kids/factbook/ruralkidscount2004 (957 words)

	Poor Pay Biggest Income Share in State, Local Taxes* - The NewStandard
		Rich Huddleston, executive director of the public-interest group Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, said that the stateâs main release valve for fiscal pressures is regressive taxation.
		Lawmakers in Hawaii, where a single-parent family of three making just $9,800 is subject to the income tax, are now considering legislation to provide credits and special deductions that would pull poor families out of the income-tax pool.
		Arkansas Advocates has proposed a state EITC plan that would boost the incomes of about 234,000 families across the state.
	newstandardnews.net /content/index.cfm/items/2879 (1699 words)

	Partners
		Sound Partners seeks to increase awareness of specific health issues and encourages citizen involvement in decisions that affect their health care.
		Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is a non-profit, non-partisan, child advocacy organization founded in 1977 that researches, educates, debates, dialogues, compromises and rethinks children's issues.
		Its support demonstrates that there is a substantial statewide commitment to provide outreach and public education about child and adolescent health concerns to Arkansas parents and demonstrates a trust and commitment to the Health Raps partners AETN, AACF and Al "Papa Rap" Lopez.
	www.aetn.org /healthraps/html/partners.html (167 words)

	Today's THV KTHV Little Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A children's advocacy group says Arkansas has made progress in protecting children from neglect and abuse but still is approaching a "crisis" in delivering much-needed services.
		The Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families released the first in a series of reports on the state's child welfare system Thursday.
		The group noted that the state agency has attained accreditation from the Council of Accreditation for Children and Families and improved its ability to track cases.
	www.kthv.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=18839 (135 words)

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