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Meet Your Newly Elected Nevada Representatives

Get to know your newly elected representatives: US Senators, US Congress, and All Statewide Offices.

ECM Survey
In September 2010, ECM Nevada sent out a survey to collect all candidate platforms (in their own words) on key issues facing Nevada's Families and Children. Only 9 out of the 64 officials below completed our survey.

Contact Your Representatives
Now is the time to encourage them to make children and families a national prioity. Click on the links below to see where they stand on Children's issues.

We are calling on all child advocates to come together and rally for children a part of the national Step UP for Kids Event.  Join us on October 15, at the Heart Walk, and make children a priority in our state and in our country.

Saturday October 15, 2011
7:00am – Noon
Mountain's Edge Exploration Park
9275 S Buffalo Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89178
 
Resource Fair /Kids Zone : 9:00AM - Noon

FREE… Food, Music, Raffle Prizes, Kids Zone w/Bounce Houses, Games & More. 
Step UP Press Conference 10:00AM
Introducing: Courts Catalyzing Change

Click here for an informational flier.

Community Co-Sponsors for this Event Include:

8th Judicial Court CASA Program
A Brighter Day Family Services
Addicted…To HOPE
American Heart Association
American Lung Association
Baby’s Bounty
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada
Brand New Horizon
CAN Prevent
CCDFS Parenting Project
Chaplaincy Nevada
Child Focus
Children’s Advocacy Alliance
City of North Las Vegas
Clark County Democratic Black Caucus
Clark County Foster and Adoptive Parent Association
Courts Catalyzing Change
Department of Family Services
Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC)
Empowering 2 Excel
Every Child Matters in Nevada
Family Ties of Nevada
Foundation for a Drug Free World
Fresh Start Family Services
Glass House Counseling Agency
Greater New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church
Hands of Comfort Foundation
Heart of a Girl
HopeLink
It’s All About KIDS Inc.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Las Vegas Urban League Childcare Subsidy Program
Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada and the Children’s Attorneys Project
Living Waters International
NASW-Nevada
Nevada Blind Children's Foundation
Nevada CASA Association
Nevada Child Seekers
Nevada Children’s Center
Nevada Conservation League
Nevada PEP
Nevada PTA
Nevada Public Health Foundation
Nevada Values Coalition
Olive Crest
Operation H.O.P.E. Inc.
PACT Coalition
PARLADE LAW, LLC
Prevent Child Abuse Nevada
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Southern Nevada Community Gang Task Force
Southern Nevada Health District
St. Jude's Ranch for Children
The Children's Cabinet
Three Square
Touch and Agree Christian Ministry COGIC
Tune in Talk
UNLV Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy
Vegas Rock
VegasValleyResources.org
Victory Missionary Baptist Church
Women with a Vision International
Women's Federation for World Peace

There are 681,033 children under 18 in Nevada Children Living in Poverty (2009) - 118,000 Share of Medicaid-enrolled children not getting dental care (2007) - 73% Children Not Covered by Health Insurance at Any Time (2008) - 115,000

• Additional Children Covered by Expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program - 37,400
• Total number of child abuse and neglect reports (2009) - 18,000

Child Abuse and Neglect

There are over 3 million reports of child abuse and neglect a year. Thousands of children are killed and severely injured. Abuse and neglect take a long-term physical and emotional toll on individual children, their families, and the communities in which they live.

• In 2008, 4,877 Nevada children were victims of child abuse and neglect.
• Child abuse and neglect costs America $109.1 billion a year and contributes to poverty, crime, and alcohol and drug abuse.
• For every dollar spent by the federal government in subsidies for the out-of-home placement of children, 14 cents is spent on prevention and protective services.
• From 2005 to 2009, Congress cut federal funding to states to treat and protect abused and neglected children by 17%.
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided $1 billion to states for child protection. This funding will end at the end of the year.
• Despite receiving some federal support, Nevada cut $56.15 million from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) in 2009.