2023 Maine KIDS COUNT® Databook

You will notice that the 2023 Maine KIDS COUNT Data Book looks different. We added new content to align with our commitments to center equity in our work and to elevate the voices of people closest to the issues and solutions.

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Highlights of the 2023 Maine KIDS COUNT Data Book
The full 2023 Maine KIDS COUNT Data Book
The Health, Safety & Well-Being Chapter (includes a closer look at child welfare)
The Family Economic Security Chapter (includes child poverty)
The Early Care & Education Chapter (includes a closer look at early intervention)

What's Inside

Health, Safety & Well-Being: Teen mental health is a growing crisis in the state and the nation. Maine youth were already struggling with high rates of anxiety and depression when the pandemic brought academic disruption and social isolation. See more...
Family Economic Security: Living in poverty creates many challenges to child and family well-being. In 2021, nearly 34,000 Maine children, 13.8 percent, lived in households below the federal poverty level. Maine’s child poverty rate began falling in 2012, reaching a low point in 2020 of 12.8 percent. See more...
Early Care & Education: Early care and education programs, such as public preschool, produce both short- and long-term positive effects on children’s development. Participation in public preschool in Maine has returned to pre-pandemic levels See more...
Counties at a Glance
Definitions and Sources

Special thanks to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, John T. Gorman Foundation, and the Maine Health Access Foundation for supporting Maine KIDS COUNT.

The Maine Children’s Alliance advocates for sound public policies and promotes best practices to improve the lives of all Maine children, youth, and families.
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