Immigrant & Refugee
Issue Briefs on Kentucky Children in Immigrant Families
Kentucky Youth Advocates published a series of four issue briefs to draw focus to barriers that face children in immigrant families:
- Prenatal Care - Ensuring a Healthy Start: Prenatal Care and Birth Outcomes among Newborn Kentuckians. April 2008. This first issue brief includes data on access to prenatal care, rates of low-weight and preterm births, and solutions to improve access to quality care. Data comparisons are made between Kentucky births to U.S.-born mothers and Kentucky births to mothers born outside the U.S.
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- Economic Well-being - Strengthening Economic Well-being among New Kentuckians. May 2008. Kentucky is better off when all families have fair opportunities to support themselves financially. A new issue brief finds that, too many immigrant families in Kentucky face barriers to financial stability.
- Early Childhood Education - Setting the Stage for School Readiness: Early Childhood Education among Immigrant Families in Kentucky. June 2008. For young children in immigrant families, quality early child care and education can improve English proficiency and cultural skills necessary to succeed in school and become productive adults. Despite the clear benefits, however, immigrant families face several barriers to enrollment in these programs
- Youth Transition to Adulthood - Making their Way: Helping Kentucky's Immigrant Youth Successfully Transition into Adulthood June 2008. All youth in Kentucky need high quality educational experiences to become successful adults. This brief presents a snapshot of older immigrant youth ages 16 to19 and examines how well they are being prepared to successfully transition into higher education and the workforce.
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