Safety

DC KIDS COUNT tracks key data on child welfare and risky behavior by youth to ensure that the nation's capital is a safe place to for children to grow up and thrive.

Child Abuse & Neglect

Data show that child abuse and neglect have been declining across the country, but there is little evidence of that trend in DC 

Blogs and Testimony

Do you have five minutes for our city’s children, youth and families? By now you should have received an email with a link to a survey about DC...

Editor's note: This week DC Action welcomes guest blogger Eddie Ferrer, chief operating officer of DC Lawyers for Youth.

The...

Our friends over at the New America Foundation blogged about our 2012 DC KIDS COUNT e-...

DC’s Child and Family Services Agency is about to become the first child welfare agency to...

More than 18,000 DC children and youth live in the city’s neighborhoods with the highest rates of violent crime, including more than 5,300...

All of us at DC Action for Children are thrilled with the success of last week’s “every place matters. every kid counts.” luncheon. We are so...

Research and Resources

A network of nonprofit, neighborhood-based collaboratives in DC...  

A nonprofit providing free legal services to children, families and...  

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