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Data and Evaluation Committee

Screenshot of video overview of State of Vermont’s Children Report: 2023 Year in Review
March 27, 2024

How Homelessness, Mental Health Conditions, and More Affect Vermont Children

In addition to the spotlight on perinatal health we featured recently from BBF’s The State of Vermont’s Children, this year’s report ...
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March 14, 2024

Read the Summary of Our Report on Act 76 Monitoring

BBF is expanding our written communications to include plain language versions of reports whenever possible. This will promote accessibility to important ...
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February 13, 2024

Our New Early Childhood Data Portal Has Launched

We’re excited to announce that we’ve just launched an Early Childhood Data Portal as part of VermontKidsData.org. The portal has indicators across all ...
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Infant on belly lifting head and looking at stuffed animal
August 11, 2022

New Data Brief Shows Strengths, Challenges of Children’s Integrated Services in Vermont

Building Bright Futures (BBF) has just released a new data brief, Examining Perspectives of Children’s Integrated Services (CIS) from Families Served ...
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May 2, 2022

New data on suspensions and expulsions of Vermont kids under 9

It’s an urgent priority to reduce preventable exclusionary discipline incidents (broadly defined as suspension and expulsion) for young children—in order to ...
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March 17, 2022

New brief shows integration challenges and strengths within VT’s early childhood system

Over the past year, Building Bright Futures undertook an information gathering effort through a survey and stakeholder discussions to determine areas ...
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January 26, 2022

New data show children’s needs are on the rise

30% of Vermont children have a behavioral, emotional, developmental, or mental health condition After the isolation that children and families experienced ...
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December 7, 2020

BBF Releases Vermont Early Childhood Action Plan and Needs Assessment

Drum roll please… We are so excited to announce the publication of TWO big projects to help Vermont be a better ...
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September 14, 2020

Vermont’s Early Childhood Systems Needs Assessment Webinar

On August 24th, Building Bright Futures (BBF) presented the birth to five systems needs assessment. The presentation integrated the key needs ...
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