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A child and an adult play together in this photo from a child care center established during the COVID pandemic.

Lawmakers propose regulatory relief during pandemic, advocates worry it goes too far

September 3, 2020 by Rose Hoban

Lawmakers propose regulatory relief during pandemic, advocates worry it goes too far - North Carolina Health News

During this week’s short legislative session, some provisions would reduce regulations around child care programs and senior care.

By Rose Hoban Lawmakers returned to Raleigh this week to appropriate more money for COVID-19 relief. The intention was to allocate close to a billion dollars of federal money sent to North Carolina to address issues created by the pandemic that’s been upending lives for more than half a year. Tucked into the 54-page spending […]

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Rousing a community to the effects of child abuse in Cumberland County

April 25, 2019 by Sarah Ovaska

Rousing a community to the effects of child abuse in Cumberland County - North Carolina Health News

A multi-pronged effort is underway to build resilience in the community, where a rash of child deaths spurred outrage and a desire to address the root problems.

By Sarah Ovaska-Few Cumberland County is rethinking how it responds to child abuse. Instead of framing abuse as a problem shouldered by individual families, an ambitious effort by a collection of two dozen nonproft partners, government groups and concerned residents are instead naming it a community problem deserving of a community-wide solution. The S.O.A.R.(Strengths in […]

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Governor’s Health Care Budget Emphasizes Medicaid Expansion, Scaling Back Some Tax Breaks

May 11, 2018 by Rose Hoban

Governor’s Health Care Budget Emphasizes Medicaid Expansion, Scaling Back Some Tax Breaks - North Carolina Health News

Cooper's announcement is only the opening act in a multi-part annual budget process. Lawmakers have been crafting their own budgets ahead of next week's short legislative session.

By Rose Hoban Even before Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s team was able to email out a laudatory press release touting “common ground” in his proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, leaders of the Republican-led General Assembly had emailed reporters their own release, rejecting the governor’s plan and calling it an “unserious attempt to score […]

Council Stumbles on Strategy to Smooth Early Childhood Transitions

March 16, 2018 by Education NC

Council Stumbles on Strategy to Smooth Early Childhood Transitions - North Carolina Health News

A multidisciplinary team started work on rethinking early childhood care and education for North Carolina's youngest. But they were stymied by a lack of coordinated data.

By Liz Bell EducationNC Health and education representatives struggled to find a common starting point Thursday as they dove into a large task: creating a coordinated system of care and education for children from birth through third grade. The state’s early childhood and K-12 education systems are largely disconnected, as are the bodies that oversee them. […]

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Eliminating Pre-K Waiting Lists Proves a Knotty Problem

July 18, 2017 by Leah Asmelash

Eliminating Pre-K Waiting Lists Proves a Knotty Problem - North Carolina Health News

Lawmakers promise to eliminate the waiting lists for North Carolina's state funded preschool program, but it's tougher than at first glimpse.

By Leah Asmelash In each version of the North Carolina budget presented this year, from Gov. Roy Cooper to leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, lawmakers crowed about how they were chipping away at waiting lists for the state’s subsidized NC Pre-K program. “Over the next two years, we’re adding $27 million […]

CEOs Sleep By the Railroad Tracks to Raise Awareness on Childhood Hunger

September 11, 2014 by Hyun Namkoong

CEOs Sleep By the Railroad Tracks to Raise Awareness on Childhood Hunger - North Carolina Health News

Local business leaders get a taste of how the other half lives in Durham. By Hyun Namkoong CEOs and business leaders of Triangle companies such as AT&T and FHI 360 spent the night tossing and turning as they slept on top of flattened cardboard boxes in downtown Durham last night. The local business leaders came […]

Child Care Centers Chip Away at Childhood Obesity

March 26, 2014 by Editor

Child Care Centers Chip Away at Childhood Obesity - North Carolina Health News

A symposium in Raleigh last week highlighted the ways child-care centers could contribute to reducing kids’ weight. By Rose Hoban You wouldn’t think a furniture company in rural North Carolina would be perched on the cutting edge of childhood-obesity prevention. But that’s what’s happening at the Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams factory in Alexander County, […]

House HHS Budget: Part 2 – More Mental Health Beds, Cuts to Pregnancy Prevention

May 25, 2012 by Rose Hoban

House HHS Budget: Part 2 – More Mental Health Beds, Cuts to Pregnancy Prevention - North Carolina Health News

State lawmakers rolled out their health and human services budget Thursday, one that provides for more beds in state psychiatric institutions, while targeting Planned Parenthood and cutting not for profit service providers, such as a statewide adolescent pregnancy prevention program. Part 2 of 2 By Rose Hoban The House health and human services appropriations subcommittee, […]

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