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Access profiles for many WV locations; rankings, maps, or trend graphs by topic; and raw data. Includes over 100 measures of child well-being, including the community-level data formerly in CLIKS.

Profiles (Showing 7 Featured Indicators of full set)

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Number registered family child care homes (2009)	1,938
Percent family child care providers who are ACDS graduates (Percent) (2009)	5.3%
Number family child care facilities (2009)	100
Percent child care centers that are NAEYC accredited (2009)	7.9%
Number licensed child care centers (2009)	367
Percent 4-year-olds enrolled in Pre-K (2009)	50.6%
Percent of Eligible Children Served by Head Start (Ages 3 - 4) (2008)	73.4%

Featured Data for West Virginia

Early Childhood

Percent child care centers that are NAEYC accredited (2009)

This background fact is based on the number of licensed day care centers in each county divided by the number of NAEYC accredited centers in each county. NM means that there are no child care centers in the county, thus, no NAEYC centers in the county.

National Association for the Education of Young Children, Accreditation. Accessed at http://www.naeyc.org/academy/search/SEARCH_Result.asp. Licensed child care centers from WV Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Early Care and Education.

This is the percent of child care centers that are accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC.)

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Ten important indicators of child well-being included in our annual KIDS COUNT Data Book.
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West Virginia Grantee

West Virginia KIDS COUNT Fund 1031 Quarrier Street
Suite 313, Atlas Building
Charleston, WV 25301

(304) 345-2101
staff@wvkidscountfund.org
http://www.wvkidscountfund.org

Margie Hale, Executive Director

The West Virginia KIDS COUNT Fund works to improve the lives of West Virginia's at-risk children by: identifying and supporting programs that work; conducting research and disseminating that research to its constituents; and supporting public policies that promote prevention and early intervention.

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