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An illustration of a human head with the brain open, where you can see a violin. Music notes flow outside the brain and into the surrounding spaces.
Posted inChildren's Health

Making music, changing lives: Youth orchestras help at-risk kids

by Elizabeth Thompson January 13, 2022January 12, 2022

By Elizabeth Thompson Bethany Uhler Thompson didn’t know what to expect when she decided to start a youth string orchestra at Chatham Youth Development Center. She was inspired by her uncle, who was incarcerated and had confided in her how isolating being in prison could be. Thompson used to perform with her cello in a […]

shows a newborn baby in a hospital maternity/ obstetrics unit
Posted inChildren's Health

Pandemic babies: how are they developing in a world upended by COVID?

by Taylor Knopf October 21, 2021October 19, 2021
photo is a close up of hands cuffed behind someone's back
Posted inChildren's Health

North Carolina raises the age for when children can marry and go to court

by Anne Blythe September 16, 2021September 16, 2021
shows children looking frightened as they tumble down a slide
Posted inChildren's Health

New council will work to improve child welfare system

by Rose Hoban March 14, 2019November 13, 2019
a little boy drinks at a water fountain that appears to be in the hallway of a school. Children are particularly vulnerable to lead exposure, and they can get it through drinking contaminated water.
Posted inChildren's Health

Lawmaker will again attempt to get lead out of water in schools, daycare centers

by Greg Barnes January 24, 2019January 23, 2019
shows a smiling little girl at a table with flowers, a little boy is in the background, just out of focus. they're both at a summer school lunches program. School lunch programs were suspended because of COVID-19, but school districts across North Carolina came up with alternatives.
Posted inChildren's Health

New Rules Could Open More Homes to Foster Kids

by Pew Trusts January 3, 2019December 24, 2018

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