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

Poverty

About one in six young children in Minnesota lives in poverty. Poverty early in life is associated with poorer outcomes in early language, cognitive development, and educational achievement. Stressors associated with living in poverty can affect children's emotional, mental, behavioral, and physical health. Children who are raised in poverty are more likely to remain in poverty in adulthood.

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Poverty

The federal definition of poverty is indexed for household size. In 2016, the federal poverty level was about $20,000 for a family of three and $24,000 for a family of four.

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