Health
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| New Hampshire Children in Need of Services: Impacts of 2011 Legislative Changes to CHINS Using administrative data from state and local agencies and data from interviews with CHINS professionals, this brief provides an overview of participation in the Children in Need of Services (CHINS) program before and after the change in the law in September 2011… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Children, Health, New Hampshire, Safety Net |
| Mental Health Among Northern New Hampshire Young Adults: Depression and Substance Problems Higher Than Nationwide This brief uses data on depressive and substance abuse symptoms from two surveys administered in 2011—the Coös Youth Study and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health—to compare mental health patterns among young adults in Coös County, New Hampshire, to patterns… |
New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| SNAP Use Increased Slightly in 2012 This brief uses data from the American Community Survey to examine rates of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) receipt in 2012, track changes since the onset of the recession, and monitor receipt by region and place type.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Family, Food Assistance, Health, Poverty, Safety Net |
| Comparing Teen Substance Use in Northern New Hampshire to Rural Use Nationwide Using data administered in 2011 from the Carsey Institute’s Coös Youth Study and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, this brief compares teen substance use patterns in New Hampshire’s most rural county to patterns among rural youth nationwide.
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New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Sixty Percent of Coös Youth Report Having a Mentor in Their Lives In this brief, authors Kent Scovill and Corinna Jenkins Tucker describe Coös youths’ mentor relationships using data from the Carsey Institute’s Coös Youth Study collected in 2007. They report that, in 2007, a majority of Coös youth in seventh and eleventh grade (60.… |
New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| 2012 New Hampshire Civic Health Index The 2012 New Hampshire Civic Health Index follows earlier studies, including the New Hampshire Civic Index compiled by the NH Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in 2006 and the 2009 Civic Health Index published by the Carsey Institute in collaboration with… |
New Hampshire | Civic Attitudes, Health, New Hampshire |
| Informal Kinship Care Most Common Out-of-Home Placement After an Investigation of Child Maltreatment This fact sheet examines differences between urban and rural areas in foster care placement with informal kin caregivers. The data for this analysis come from a national sample of children who had a maltreatment report that resulted in an investigation: the second… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Family, Health |
| Record Number of Children Covered by Health Insurance in 2011 Using data from the 2008 through 2011 American Community Survey, this brief describes rates of children’s health insurance coverage nationally, by region, and place type (that is, rural, suburban, and central city). In addition, it details the composition of coverage… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health |
| Psychotropic Medication Use Among Children in the Child Welfare System Prior research demonstrates that children in the child welfare system are given psychotropic medication at rates approximately three times higher than children and adolescents in the general population.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health |
| Coös County Youth and Out-of-School Activities - Patterns of Involvement and Barriers to Participation This fact sheet draws from surveys administered to a cohort of 416 participants in 7th grade in 2008, again when they were in 8th grade in 2009, and most recently as 10th graders in 2011 to look at patterns of participation in structured activities over time and… |
New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Education, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
