Kansas Action for Children
Project Description
Kansas Action for Children
A partnership with Kansas Action for Children to understand and address a key community challenge.
Project Details
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Community Partner: Kansas Action for Children
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Data Categories: Social Science Keywords: Child Care Data Type: Geospatial Data
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Project Year: 2024
Project Resources
The Challenge
Kansas Action for Children’s (KAC) mission is to shape health, education, and economic policy that will improve the lives of Kansas children and families. KAC accomplishes this goal through bipartisan advocacy, partnership, and information-sharing on key issues. A priority issue in the upcoming 2024 legislative session will be child care access in Kansas, as policymakers and advocates are seeking a resolution to the ongoing crisis throughout the state. The goal of this project is to develop an understanding of the current child care landscape in Kansas through state and local-level data, establish a comparable understanding of the child care landscapes in states regional to Kansas, and attempt to create a predictive outcome for Kansas based on the students’ findings.