• Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc.

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    “Children” is the title of the 11th program in a series of programs on Community Television of Santa Cruz County called “The War On Poverty in the 21st Century”. Produced by Community Television and the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc.

    ·               Produced: Monday, February 3rd, 2003

    ·               On Air February 6th through February 28th, 2003

    ·               Mondays and Thursdays at 6:30 pm and Fridays at 3:

    ·               Channel: 25 on AT&T Cable

    ·               Title: “Children”

    ·               An article on this series was featured in The Good Times on May 23rd. You can view this article at:  http://www.cabinc.org/War_Goodtimes_poverty_tv.htm

    Child poverty rates have dropped in the United States since 1990.  Unfortunately, California is an exception to that rule.  In Califonia most poor children live in working families, and as many poor children live in two parent households as live in single parent households.

    A recent STATE CHILD POVERTY UPDATE, called “The Changing Face of Child Poverty in California” was released by National Center for Children in Poverty in August of 2002. The report illustrates the changing demographic picture of poor familes.

    The National Center for Children in Poverty identified the following trends in California over the past two decades: 

    • The number of low-income children in California has increased by almost 1.6 million, from 2.77 million to 4.36 million. The number of California’s children in poverty has increased by 850,000, from 1.27 to 2.12 million.
    • One in six poor children in the United States lives in California, compared to about one in 10 two decades ago. The number of poor children in California has grown at a faster pace than the total number of children in the United States.
    • California’s child poverty rate has increased by more than 10 percent since 1979. The child poverty rate in California increased from just under 20 percent during the period 1979-1983 to 22 percent during the period from 1996-2000. During the same averaged time period, the national child poverty rate went from 19 percent to 18 percent.

    Poor children in California are much more likely to live in working families than they were two decades ago

    • More than two in three poor children in California live in working families with at least one employed parent. This is an increase of over 20 percent compared to two decades ago and over 30 percent in the past decade. Four in five low-income children live in working families.

    Guests:

    Rafael López, is the Executive Director of First 5 Santa Cruz County. 
     The mission of the First 5 Santa Cruz County is to ensure that family-friendly services and education are available so that each child reaches the fifth year of life healthy, ready and able to learn, and emotionally well developed. 

    Lynn McKibbin, RN.  is the Public Health Program Manager for the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency She has worked for HSA for 14 years as the Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Director.  She is an RN, Public Health Nurse and has over 30 years of experience in public health agencies throughout the State of California.  
    Sandy Davie is the Administrative Director of the Santa Cruz Toddler Care Center.  The Center Provides full day, year-round quality child care for children aged 1-3 years old and parent education and for parents who work or attend school.  The center publishes 1,2,3...The Toddler Years, a book  sold nationally that is used as a textbook in Early Childhood Education classes throughout the country.

    • The host of the series, Paul Rachuy Brindel, 

     

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    ·               Executive Producer of the series is Geoffrey Dunn, Executive Director of Community Television of Santa Cruz County.

    ·               Kathy D’Angelo produces the series for Community Television.

    ·               Paul Brindel produces the series for the Community Action Board

    ·               Christine Johnson-Lyons is the Associate Producer for the Community Action Board

    ·              Kathy D'Angelo directed the program.

    ·               Contact:  For Community Television, Kathy D'Angelo– 425-8848

    ·               For Community Action Board, Paul Rachuy Brindel – 457-1741 ext 160

    ·               For more on the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc go to: www.cabinc.org

    ·               Go To The War On Poverty Index of Programs and Resources at:http://www.cabinc.org/War_on_poverty_Index_of_programs.htm

  • ·               For more on Community Television of Santa Cruz County go to: http://communitytv.org/index.html

    ·             Tuesday February 4th, 2003

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