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November 5, 2009

In Mexico, fears of a ‘lost generation’ – Violence among young soars as drug cartels recruit more minors

November 4, 2009

Immigrant kids under cloud – Report says many suffer financially and from continuing ill will – Utah

Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20, according to a study reported Monday in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Child welfare workers too quick to remove Latino children from their families

October 30, 2009

Hispanics Tune in and Help Raise More Than $633,000 for Kids With Cancer During 2nd

October 28, 2009

An Entire Generation at Stake – By 2030, Latino children will make up half of the U.S. child population living in poverty.

Immigrant Children Lost in Education Reform – interview with Ruby Takanishi, president and chief executive officer of Foundation for Child Development

October 27, 2009

National Council of La Raza: Groundbreaking Forum on Latino Children Offers Solutions to the Challenges Faced by this Growing Community

Mario Lopez Makes a Mean Mud Taco! – (yep he wrote a book, a children’s book)

Needed: (Hispanic) Foster Parents to Care for Children in Kentucky

October 26, 2009

Detained immigrant children face legal maze in U.S. – 7,211 children entered the U.S. illegally in 2008 by themselves – As many as 50% of those kids went before judges with no lawyer

Latinos lag in skills as toddlers, studies show – Poor, immigrant Latinas have healthy babies but by age 2 or 3, their toddlers begin to lag behind white middle-class children in vocabulary, listening and problem-solving skills, according to two new studies.

A UC Berkeley researcher says children born to immigrant Latina mothers tend to have poorer cognitive skills as toddlers than middle-class white children.

Millions of children in the US suffer from suboptimal levels of vitamin D – 80% of Hispanic children tested!!!

October 15, 2009

Hundreds of Thousands of Puerto Rican Workers, Faith Leaders, Students and Citizens to Unite in Hato Rey on October 15 – National March Will Protest Massive Cuts in Essential Public Services; Republican Administration Under Investigation for Civil Rights Violations Against High School Students

October 13, 2009

Parents of victims furious to learn that DWI mom Carmen Huertas mocked her own daughter’s pleas to be careful – NYC

October 9, 2009

Unequal access: Hispanic children rarely get top-notch care for brain tumors

October 7, 2009

Killings in Cuidad Juárez: Girl, 9, among 35 homicides in first 4 days of October

Children’s Readings and Panels at The Latino Book & Family Festival – Los Angeles, October 10-11 CSULA at Greenlee Plaza

First steps: Horse helps 8-year-old Rhiannon Hernandez to reach dream – (touching)

The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services on Tuesday dropped its claim that Maria Gurrola’s four children be removed from her care filed after allegations that Gurrola and her husband knew of a plan to sell the baby before the Sept. 29 kidnapping. – Yair Antonio Carrillo saga

October 6, 2009

Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho to receive the University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal

October 5, 2009

ICFH Elects New Board Member Whilly Bermudez

October 4, 2009

Latino Baby abducted by knife-wielding attacker found – Mom gets to hold him but must wait to take him home; arrest made – Yair Anthony Carillo – Nashville – (strangely – the mother’s other 3 kids were taken by Tennessee Department of Children’s Services for ’safety reasons’ and the attacker/kidnapper’s boyfriend is a Latino)

October 2, 2009

A pilot program in North Carolina has been launched to protect the life and health of U.S. migrant and seasonal farm worker children, many of whom are Hispanic.

St. Jude and Davidson Media Group Announce 2nd Annual Hispanic Radiothon to Help Children with Cancer

Concern grows as search for Tenn. infant continues – Yair Anthony Carillo

October 1, 2009

Call to Action to Help More Hispanic Children – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Topeka is issuing a challenge to the Latino community, as we head into the second half of Hispanic Heritage Month.

September 30, 2009

Charleston composer Fernando Rivas continues his winning ways – one of America’s leading composers for children’s television

NASHVILLE: Amber alert issued for abducted 4-day-old baby – Yair Anthony Carillo – Police believe a woman posing as an immigration worker went to Carrillo’s home and demanded his mother Maria Gurrolla, give her the baby. When refused, the woman stabbed her.

Language as a bridge and an identity – At the Grupo Educa weekend language school, children from families with roots in Latin America and Spain are taught to keep the language of their forebears alive and well.

September 24, 2009

Bilingual young adult author to address children at library – René Saldaña Jr. – Texas

Penalizing children of illegal immigrants is not the answer – North Carolina community colleges – The chair of the policy committee that considered the policy change, Stuart Fountain, told The Associated Press, “These children cannot be held in limbo while the federal government decides what to do with immigration.”

September 23, 2009

Focus Group about a New Kids’ TV Show! Kids earn a $20 gift card. (Boston, Phoenix and Nashville)

September 21, 2009

Parents Rent Children to Pornographers for a Few Cents in Peru

September 17, 2009

Big Brothers Big Sisters Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month With a Call to Action to Serve More Hispanic Children

Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says

Made in America: Myths & Facts about Birthright Citizenship & Citizenship by the Numbers

September 15, 2009

Asthma affects about 33 Puerto Rican children for every two non-Latino Caucasian children.

The College of Nursing and Health Innovation announced Monday that it received a $2.5 million grant for research of asthma disparities among Latino children from the National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. – Arizona State University

September 14, 2009

English-only test leaves some Oregon children behind

September 9, 2009

Video: Renowned Health Expert Dra. Aliza Teams Up With Baby Looney Tunes To Promote Healthy, Happy Babies

August 24, 2009

‘Which Way Home’ tracks child migrants’ dangerous journeys – Documentarian Rebecca Cammisa follows desperate youths as they risk injury and death to enter the U.S. to find work or missing parents.

August 18, 2009

Language services to improve for Indiana’s Latino children with Indiana University speech therapy grant

Hector Cortez to Lead Big Brothers Big Sisters of America’s Hispanic Mentoring Programs

August 13, 2009

Children of Detained Immigrants Call for End to Raids in Arizona: Raid Today One of the Largest

August 11, 2009

Joe Arpaio-Supporting, Gun-Toting Nativists Menace Children’s March for Family Unity

August 10, 2009

Children’s Hospital Boston is making a concerted effort to reach out to Latino families, which comprise 33% of its patient base.

August 4, 2009

2009 Kids Count Data Book Finds that Child Well-Being in Puerto Rico is at Greater Risk than in the Mainland U.S.

One in 13 white children is uninsured, compared to one in five Latino children

July 21, 2009

Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily

July 16, 2009

Hats off to Denver’s Pam Fochtman and her audiobook company, Lorito Books, which packages Spanish and bilingual children’s books with audiobooks so kids can follow along in either language.

July 14, 2009

Cutting Welfare for the Children of Immigrants will Devastate California

June 30, 2009

4 Latino/Hispanic Publishing Houses You Need to Know

June 24, 2009

About 40.9 percent of Hispanic children between 10 and 17 years old are obese in the United States, according to the BHC. But in Texas this number is even higher, at 46.8 percent.

Latino Teens Happier, Healthier If Families Embrace Biculturalism: Report

June 22, 2009

Grupo Salinas, Fundacion Azteca and Fundacion Azteca America Raise Over US$1.3 Million During the 50th Movimiento Azteca Awareness and Fundraising Campaign To Support Prenatal Care

More than 100 U.S.-born children sue the Obama administration over their parents’ deportations

June 19, 2009

Iowa researchers found significant disparities in several aspects of children’s health-care between those who speak primarily Spanish and those who speak English.

June 18, 2009

Microsoft Latin America teams up with Children International to teach under-served children in the Dominican Republic

June 17, 2009

Carlos Santana’s Milagro Foundation Receives W.K. Kellogg Foundation Grant to Support Low-Income Communities in Their Development of Health and Nutrition for Children

2009 Winners of Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

June 15, 2009

World Day Against Child Labor: Mexican Foreign Ministry releases report detailing Mexican children traveling to US alone are looking for work

No Longer Letting Scores Separate Pupils – (interesting article about Stamford, Connecticut) – the longstanding system for tracking children by academic ability for more effective teaching evolved into an uncomfortable caste system in which students were largely segregated by race and socioeconomic background, both inside and outside classrooms.

June 7, 2009

Grieving parents buried their children Sunday after a devastating daycare fire killed 38 infants and toddlers in a tragedy that stunned Mexico and prompted its president to promise a thorough investigation. – Hermosillo

June 6, 2009

U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants getting mixed message about value of US citizenship

Mexico day care fire kills 31 children

June 5, 2009

Shakira’s Children – She has built five schools in her country since 2004 – (feature in NYT’s Magazine)

June 1, 2009

Hispanic children in US at greater risk for obesity than other ethnic/racial groups

Roselyn Sánchez organiza día de juegos para niños – San Jorge Children’s Foundation – Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

May 29, 2009

It’s assimilation, nothing more – Gregory Tejeda’s thoughts on the new Pew Hispanic Report: Hispanic Children: The Rise of the Second Generation

Look into the future: Hispanics 2.0 – Esther Cepeda’s thoughts on the new Pew Hispanic Report: Hispanic Children: The Rise of the Second Generation

Peru: Freezing Temperatures in Puno Result in 133 Children Deaths

May 28, 2009

Hispanics now make up 22% of all children under the age of 18 in the United States–up from 9% in 1980–and as their numbers have grown, their demographic profile has changed. A majority (52%) of the nation’s 16 million Hispanic children are now “second generation,” meaning they are the U.S.-born sons or daughters of at least one foreign-born parent, typically someone who came to this country in the immigration wave from Mexico, Central America and South America that began around 1980. Some 11% of Latino children are “first generation”–meaning they themselves are foreign-born. And 37% are “third generation or higher”–meaning they are the U.S.-born children of U.S.-born parents.

May 14, 2009

Number of Latino children surges in Sonoma County, California

April 15, 2009

Nearly 75% of illegal immigrants’ children were born in the USA and are citizens, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. – (nice interactive map)

April 10, 2009

22% of 4 year old Hispanic children are obese according to new research

April 2, 2009

Childhood hearing loss more prevalent among Hispanic-American, low-income households

March 15, 2009

Lowering bar on Florida’s teachers’ ESOL is a bad idea – A quarter-million Florida kids are learning English for the first time. In South Florida, it’s about one in seven children. Under state rules, they’re expected to master the language in two years and pass the FCAT.

March 14, 2009

Immigration reform movement looks to evangelicals, children of deported parents

March 11, 2009

New Children’s Books From Piñata Books/ Arte Público Press

March 10, 2009

Study: Hispanic Families Eat At Home With Children More Than Other Families

March 5, 2009

Roughly one-fourth of the nation’s kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023 + about one-fifth of all K-12 students

February 26, 2009

Help fellow Latinos understand: you don’t leave kids unattended in cars!

February 1, 2009

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), including a provision to expand access for legal immigrant children and pregnant women

January 29, 2009

Los abogados de más de 600 niños estadounidenses presentaron hoy una demanda contra el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, para que suspenda las deportaciones de sus padres indocumentados hasta que se apruebe una reforma migratoria.

The lawyers for over 600 American born children filed a lawsuit against President Obama to suspend the deportation of their undocumented parents until there is immigration law reform.

January 28, 2009

Interview With Children’s Book Author Monica Brown – new book Pele King of Soccer

January 21, 2009

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Separates Mother from Children, Immigrant Crack Down

December 23, 2008

Efforts Seek To Encourage Hispanics To Become Bone/Stem Cell Donors, Increase Number Of Hispanic Children In Clinical Trials, Address Other Issues

December 20, 2008

COURT DENIES TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY’S EFFORTS TO STALL STUDENTS’ RIGHTS TO EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

December 9, 2008

New Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise In Protecting Children In Africa

December 6, 2008

Publicar temas sobre la violencia sexual hacia los niños y las niñas ha sido una labor difícil para la periodista Lydia Cacho, y es por eso que decidió escribir el libro “Con mi hij@ no”. Manual para prevenir, entender y sanar el abuso sexual”, que presentó el viernes en la Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL), en Guadalajara

December 5, 2008

Lucía González and Lulu Delacre, author and illustrator of The Storyteller’s Candle / La velita de los cuentos, celebrate the remarkable efforts of New York City’s first Latina librarian, Pura Belpré, in her native Puerto Rico.

December 3, 2008

Children of U.S. farmworkers are three times more likely than other children and almost twice as likely as other poor youngsters to have no health insurance coverage, a new study finds.

December 2, 2008

Determinants of Health Insurance Status for Children of Latino Immigrant and Other US Farm Workers – Findings From the National Agricultural Workers Survey

November 19, 2008

Microsoft Launches NGO Connection Portal in Spanish – New online tool provides a platform of technical resources, relationships and exchanges of knowledge for non-profit organizations.

CBeebies Set to Enchant Spanish-Speaking Children Across the United States

November 17, 2008

Children caught trying to slip illegally into the U.S. are mistreated while in custody, transported home unsafely and denied access to representation, a study released Thursday contends. The Austin-based think tank Center for Public Policy Priorities outlined a series of what they said were shortcomings by the federal government in dealing with unaccompanied illegal immigrant children taken into custody.

November 6, 2008

Hispanic children had a 65% higher probability than non-Hispanic, white children of being uninsured at some point during the year with an insured parent and an 80% greater chance of being uninsured for more than 6 months