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The organization that I chose in Week 1 is The National Center for Children in Poverty.  This organization is a leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health and well being of America (National Center for Children in Poverty, n.d.).  Research is used to inform policy and practice with the intended goal to ensure positive outcomes for the next generation (National Center for Children in Poverty, n.d.).  NCCP states 32 million children in United States are living in families who struggle to make ends meet; about forty-five percent of these children are living at the edge (National Center for Children in Poverty, n.d.).  The vision for the organization is to promote family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels therefore families will have economic security, strong, nurturing families, and healthy development (National Center for Children in Poverty, n.d.). 

http://www.nccp.org/

The current issue that caught my attention is the information about immigrant families that indicates seventeen million of this nation’s children have at least one foreign-born parent.  The other issue this organization provides information about is the poverty levels among families in the US.  Information on this site will allow you to research immigration and poverty statistics for each individual state in the union. 

I learned there is steady rise of the demographics in this country.  I think officials must take action now towards increasing dual language educators in all school systems or an unknown percentage of children will not get fair properly educated.  The NCCP director states that children do better when their families do better.  The director contents that research has shown that a family’s low income can impede a child’s cognitive development and the ability to learn which could contribute to another host of problems for a child that includes behavioral, social and emotional problems.  So the NCCP next phase is to mutually reinforce relationship between family economic security and health child development.  They plan to accomplish this by helping policy makers understand and adopt evidence-based programs; reducing economic hardship and negative poverty on children, assisting service providers, supporting advocates to develop and implement plans that influence public policy and resource allocation, collaborating with researchers to deepen the understanding of impact on the health of a child, and aiding the media in telling the story of poor children and families living in America; yet shining the light on the power of prevention. 

 

 Reference

National Center for Children in Poverty. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.nccp.org/