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Infant mortality rates are a globally accepted measure of a community’s well-being. And, while Columbus is widely considered to be one of our nation’s more prosperous, well-educated and progressive communities, we have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. Consider:
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Infant mortality rates are a globally accepted measure of a community’s well-being. And, while Columbus is widely considered to be one of our nation’s more prosperous, well-educated and progressive communities, we have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. Consider:
COLUMBUS, OH – The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, an interdisciplinary research institute at The Ohio State University, launched a new webpage today that explores racialized school discipline disparities and highlights the ways in which implicit racial bias may be contributing to these disparities. Made possible by generous funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the W.K.
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, an interdisciplinary research institute at The Ohio State University, has partnered with MTV and a coalition of organizations dedicated to social justice to develop “Look Different”, a multi-year campaign that launched last week, aimed at empowering young adults to better counter hidden racial, gender and anti-LGBT biases.
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our 2014 report focuses on another set of challenges and opportunities impacting children in Franklin County. Childhood trauma and stress can be corrosive and damaging to childhood development and success for children in poverty. this can mean lives consumed by stress, anxiety and insecurity, passing from one generation to the next.1
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, an inter-disciplinary engaged research institute at The Ohio State University, has released its State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review 2014. The publication builds on the foundation begun last year with Kirwan’s release of its inaugural edition bearing the same name. Both publications were made possible by generous support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
New Website Launches, Giving Public Access to Measures of Child Wellbeing & Equity in the U.S.
COLUMBUS, OH– With the help of The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, The Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy (ICYPF) at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management has launched today a new online data and analysis tool—diversitydatakids.org—providing unprecedented insight into wellbeing and equity among the ever more diverse child population in the United State
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Infant mortality is the rate at which babies die within their first year of life. Infant mortality is a measure that can be used to gauge the trends in women and child health, the quality and availability of medical care, public health practices, and the economy overall.
Startling data from the Kirwan Institute’s recent report illustrates the grave reality of infant mortality rates in the state of Ohio. Just four years ago, “Ohio had the 4th highest infant mortality rate in the nation” and there is striking evidence of health disparities in these rates, as “black infants are twice are likely to die in Ohio during their first year of life compared to white infants.”
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity’s first feature film A Reading of the Letter from Birmingham Jail, can now be viewed anywhere, through the launch of the Institute’s new online multimedia channel.
Alarming disparities in the application of school discipline policies exist nationwide between African American, Latino and White students. A “2009-2010 survey of 72,000 schools (K-12) shows that while Black students make up only 18 percent of those enrolled in the schools sampled, they accounted for 35 percent of those suspended once, 46 percent of those suspended more than once, and 39 percent of all expulsions.” City-specific data from metropolitan regions across the nation demonstrate similar disturbing trends.
