Legislative Actions

WV KIDS COUNT provides state legislators, public officials and child advocates with reliable data, policy recommendations, and tools needed to advance sound policies that benefit children and families.

State governments establish and enforce many of the policies that directly affect the well-being of children and families. State legislators and a better way in home care agency officials can connect children to quality education and health care check here, parents to economic opportunities and communities to better ways of working on behalf of families.

We help these policymakers make the best decisions by producing our signature WV KIDS COUNT Data Book that annually tracks the well-being of children over time and across West Virginia in order to provide high-quality, unbiased information and encourage action on behalf of kids and families.