KIDS COUNT 2022: How to rescue Missouri children from mental health crisis

The alarming news: Childhood anxiety and depression has risen at unprecedented levels that dominates the KIDS COUNT 2022 report on the overall health and welfare of children. The encouraging news: There is a recipe for recovery.

KIDS COUNT 2021 sets the stage for anxious pandemic reports to come

The 2021 KIDS COUNT data book has arrived like a sentry ahead of a more dire and mysterious report still to come. That’s because the extensive accounting on the well-being of Missouri’s children compiled data gathered through 2019 — just before the pandemic changed everything.

Missouri families' pandemic pain demands urgent response, new study says

Thousands of Missouri children are not getting enough to eat, a new nationwide study shows. Thousands live in fear of eviction. Many have no health insurance. And all across the state a mental health emergency is growing.

Missouri ranks 30th in KIDS COUNT 2020 Data Book; pandemic recovery will be key

The 2020 edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book is here — an annually published resource from the Annie E. Casey Foundation that tracks child well-being nationally and state by state. In this year’s report, Missouri ranks 30th among U.S. states.

Are we doing right by Missouri children? Mapping tool charts pandemic equity

Even as Missouri KIDS COUNT was preparing to release its 2020 data book, its writers knew everything was changing and that the stakes with the pandemic are rising for our most vulnerable children. So now comes the “Story Map of Vulnerability.”

Report: One in four urban Missouri children still live in concentrated poverty

Overall, the percent of Missouri children living in concentrated poverty has declined since the depths of the 2008 recession, but the experience of Missouri’s children varies significantly by race and age, and geographic location, according a new KIDS COUNT data snapshot released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

250,000 Missouri children remain at risk: says KIDS COUNT 2019 report

Some 250,000 children at risk in Missouri, rates higher in Jackson County, says 2019 KIDS COUNT report

Potential 2020 Census Undercount Could Affect Child Wellbeing in Missouri

While the state has made gains, the questions around the upcoming 2020 Census may put Missouri at risk for future federal funding.

2015 KIDS COUNT data book published

Missouri ranks 26th in the just released 2015 KIDS COUNT national data book. Missouri showed improvement in education and health rankings but worsened on child poverty measures, children in single-parent families and children living in high-poverty areas.

2014 KIDS COUNT data book published

The 2014 KIDS COUNT in Missouri Data Book offers relevant analysis of childhood well-being and county rankings, as well as issue and policy analysis.