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October 2, 2012
Child Trends Conducts First-Ever Region-Wide Look at Data on Children across the National Capital Region
Venture Philanthropy Partners Calls on Region's Leaders
to Craft a Unified Response
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Child Trends was pleased
to conduct the first comprehensive review of data on children and youth
throughout the National Capital Region at the request of Venture
Philanthropy Partners (VPP). Child Trends' data review, Assessing the Status and Needs of Children and Youth in the National Capital Region, was the basis for VPP's Sept. 6 call
for collective action by public and private sector leaders across the
region to address the needs of children and youth. (See Capital Kids: Shared Responsibility, Shared Future, for VPP's call to action.
Child Trends
gathered, reviewed and, when possible, aggregated data across nine
political jurisdictions in the National Capital Region for the
first-ever region-wide assessment of the health, safety, economic
well-being, and educational achievement of children and youth. The
jurisdictions included in the review are the District of Columbia;
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland; the cities of Falls
Church and Alexandria and the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun
and Prince William in Virginia.
Key findings include:
- Child poverty: Washington, DC's child
poverty rate of 30.4 percent in 2010 is well above the national average.
While suburban rates are much lower, several suburbs have seen sharp
increases in their child poverty rates in recent years - doubling in
Montgomery County and quadrupling in Alexandria.
- Immigration:
41 percent of children in the National Capital Region had at least one
immigrant parent in 2010 -- in Montgomery and Fairfax Counties, 50
percent of children had at least one foreign-born parent.
- Opportunity Divide: There
is a wide opportunity divide between children in affluent families and
those who - for reasons of income, language, or education - are less
advantaged.
This innovative
look at the needs of children and youth across the region is a valuable
new tool for public and private sector leaders seeking region-wide
solutions and a model for other metropolitan areas across the nation.
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and read our latest post,
A 50-State Tour of Child Well-Being: A Race to the Bottom?
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