Risk, Reach, and Resilience

• Overview
• About the project
• Key findings
• Emerging measures
• Measures by county
• Risk measures
  • Child mobility
  • Foster care
  • Health care coverage
  • Immunizations
  • Infant mortality rate
  • Low birth weight
  • Maltreatment reports filed
  • Mothers without high school degree
  • Poverty
  • Prenatal care
  • Teen birth rate
  • Unemployed parent
• Composite risk
• Reach measures
  • Childcare assistance
  • Early childhood family education
  • Early childhood screening
  • Family home visiting
  • Head Start enrollment
  • MFIP
  • Mental health
  • School readiness program
  • Special education services
  • Voluntary pre-kindergarten
  • WIC
• Resources and references

Risk, Reach, and Resilience

Maltreatment reports filed

In 2016, 38 in 1,000 children under age 5 in Minnesota had a maltreatment report filed during the year, including family assessments, family investigations, and facility investigations. Child maltreatment includes physical, emotional, and sexual abuse as well as neglect by a parent, caregiver, or another person in a custodial role. Extreme stress related to various forms of trauma can disrupt early development of the brain as well as nervous and immune systems, placing children at risk for poor physical and mental health outcomes across the lifespan.

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Maltreatment

Although children of all ages can be victims of maltreatment, infants and young children are particularly vulnerable. Children under age 4 years are at greatest risk for severe injury and death from abuse, and disproportionately experience extreme neglect compared with older children.

The 2018 Minnesota Early Childhood Risk, Reach, and Resilience report was produced by a partnership of Wilder Research; Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota; and the Minnesota Departments of Education, Health, and Human Services, supported by a grant from the Irving Harris Foundation to the University of Minnesota