The Commission on Children supports State policies that promote the health, safety and learning of children. We focus on prevention and early intervention programs and policies that promote positive outcomes for children with community leadership to guide and implement policy.
Prevention is a serious stopgap to crisis.
When utilized with best practices, policymakers can decrease aggression, poor health, crime and learning difficulties. The Governor s Blue Ribbon Commission on Mental Health prioritized prevention as a core strategy to enhance wellness and reduce vulnerability. Less than ten per cent of the state budget currently goes toward primary prevention. Embed systemic primary prevention and early intervention policies into State law and budget to bolster child health, safety and learning and to reduce the likelihood of juvenile delinquency, truancy, child abuse, and other behaviors that limit individual and neighborhood potential. Develop formal collaboration among state agencies and communities to establish goals, priorities, evaluation criteria and benchmarks with respect to primary prevention and early intervention.