Nov 2, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Home Page
By Jaimelee Behrendt-Mihalski & Emily Tamilin In order to raise public awareness, CFCR tracks legislative actions at the state level and highlights their implications. Monitoring state-level policy is one way CFCR works to improve the lives of children in... 
Sep 26, 2018 | Blog, Home Page
In order to raise public awareness, CFCR creates a legislative summary detailing relevant actions at the state level and highlighting their implications. Monitoring state-level policy is one way CFCR works to improve the lives of children in our community and we hope... 
Jun 20, 2018 | Blog, Home Page
by Ella LaRose, summer intern This week I had the privilege of watching Resilience held at a local auditorium. Resilience is a one hour film about the 1995 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Kaiser... 
Jun 20, 2018 | Home Page, News
A newly released report of county data shows that the annual child mortality rate for Mecklenburg County children age birth to 17 years increased 16% (60:100,000 children) between 2015 and 2016. Of the 153 child deaths in 2016, 104, or 68%, were infants (defined as... 
Jun 18, 2018 | Blog, Home Page
Schools out for summer! But while that creates excitement for many kids, some parents worry about how to make sure their children still have a good breakfast and lunch. Summer Meals is the CMS answer to that dilemma! Again this summer over fifty local... 
Jun 12, 2018 | Blog, Home Page
After losing their chance to break with CMS, some Mecklenburg suburbs threaten to create their own charter schools In 2017, North Carolina General Assembly (NCGA) Representative Bill Brawley (R-Meck) sponsored local bill H514, to allow Matthews and Mint Hill to...