2008

• 2008 Legislative Session Review: Keep Our Promises to Kids (April 2008)
  
  
  • Executive Summary
  • Foster Care
  • Early Learning
  • Ending Childhood Hunger
  • Children's Health
  • Bill and Budget Item Review

2007

• "Hungry in Washington" - Despite two years of progress, over 250,000 households in Washington still struggle with hunger, November 2007



• "Did they vote for kids?" - 2007 scorecard and narrative summary of legislator voting on 13 bills impacting children and families passed into law in 2007, September 2007



• 2007 Washington State Legislative Session: Invest in Our Future. Invest in Kids. August 2007.
• Executive Summary
• Health Coverage for Every Child
• Quality & Funding for Early Learning
• Improving Foster Care for All Children
• More "Brain Fuel" for Hungry Children
• Bill/Budget List



• Food Stamp Erosion in Washington: How Washington families have lost hundreds of dollars in purchasing power, May 2007
  

2006

• 2006 Washington State Legislative Session: Toward a better future for children, March 2006



• Hungry in Washington, November 2006
  
  
• Victories for children were numerous in the 2006 legislative session. Read the Children’s Alliance’s session report to find out about school breakfast for 15,000 more low-income children, the historic creation of a cabinet-level Department of Early Learning, and investments that will get much-needed health coverage to 7,000 immigrant children.
  
  
• Responding to the Crisis: Full Health Coverage for Washington's Children, January 2006
  • Full report
  • County-by-county breakdown of applications received for the Children's Health Program in December 1-16, 2005
    
    
• Poverty and Food Insecurity Among School-Aged Children in Washington, January 2006
  
  

• Hungry in Washington, November 2005
  
  
• Food Stamps: Supporting Healthy Families and Communities in Washington, August 2005
  
  
• 2005 Washington State Legislative Session: Wise Investments in Children and Families, May 2005
  
  
• Condition Critical: Washington's Curable Children's Health Crisis, December 2004
  •  Executive Summary
  •  Full Report
  
  
•  Update on Hunger In Washington, Nov. 2004



•  Nutrition and Schools: Youth and Their Parents Speak Out



•  2004 Legislative Session Wrap-up Report



•  VOICES report: Early Learning Left Out



•  Update On Hunger in Washington



•  Hungry in Washington: Acting on the Evidence



•  Changes to Children's Health Programs Enacted in the 2003 Legislative Session



•  2003 Legislative Session Wrap-Up Report  (UPDATED 6/25)



•  Washington's Welfare Budget: How Recent Cuts Affect Low Income Working Families



•  The Senate Budget and Children's Health: Small Savings and Great Harm



•  Endangering Children: Centralized Child Protective Services Intake



•  Children's Alliance Recognized Nationally for Food Stamp Advocacy



•  Hidden Harm: How the Governor's budget hurts children and families



•  December Update on the Loss of Health Insurance for Immigrant Children Losing Ground: More children lose health coverage and essential services



•  Special Children's Alliance Report: Lost in the Shuffle: 15,000 Children Lose Health Insurance



• Summer Food Program Report 2002: Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation
  90% of all low-income children who need meals in the summer don't get them.



•  Children's Alliance Annual Report to Membership: Summer 2002



•  Room to Improve: Customer Service at Washington Department of Social and Health Services Welfare Offices



•  Legislative Session Summary: 2002



• Read about what Washington's schools are doing to keep their students healthy and fed:
   Health and Nutrition Scorecard - Text
   Health and Nutrition Scorecard - Data

•  Nonprofits Can Lobby!

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