America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
Acknowledgements
This report reflects the commitment of the members of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. The report was written by the staff of the Forum, including Dara Blachman, Forum Coordinator; Lynda Laughlin, U.S. Census Bureau; Susan Lukacs, Patricia Pastor, and LaJeana Howie, National Center for Health Statistics; William Sonnenberg, National Center for Education Statistics; Daniel Axelrad, Environmental Protection Agency; Barry Steffen, Department of Housing and Urban Development; Katrina Baum, Bureau of Justice Statistics; Marsha Lopez, National Institute on Drug Abuse; Susan Jekielek, Administration for Children and Families; Mark Nord, Economic Research Service; Teri Morisi, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Shelli Avenevoli, National Institute of Mental Health; James Singleton, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Lisa Colpe, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Thomas Fungwe, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion; and Reem Ghandour, Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
In addition to the report authors, active members of the Reporting Committee who guided development of the report included Laura Chadwick and Annette Rogers, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Health and Human Services; Shelly Wilkie Martinez, Office of Management and Budget; Gregory Miller, Environmental Protection Agency; Carrie Mulford, National Institute of Justice; Robert Kominski and Jane Dye, U.S. Census Bureau; Jeffrey Evans, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Ingrid Goldstrom, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Janet Chiancone, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and Syreta Sharp, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Members of the Research and Innovation Committee who provided valuable input for the Indicators Needed sections of the report include Dara Blachman, Forum Coordinator; Patricia Pastor, National Center for Health Statistics; Jeffrey Evans, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Ingrid Goldstrom, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Susan Jekielek, Administration for Children and Families; Michael Planty, National Center for Education Statistics; and Margaret Zahn, National Institute of Justice.
Other staff members of the Forum agencies provided data, developed indicators, or wrote parts of the report. They include Stephen Provasnik, National Center for Education Statistics; David Johnson, Hyon Shin, Rose Kreider, Lea Auman, and Bernadette Proctor, U.S. Census Bureau; Hector Rodriquez and Shalom Williams, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Patricia Guenther and WenYen Juan, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion; Margaret Warner, Debra Brody, Li-Hui Chen, Robin Cohen, Cathy Duran, Donna Hoyert, Joyce Martin, T.J. Mathews, Cynthia Ogden, Stephanie Ventura, and Stephen Blumberg, National Center for Health Statistics; Cindy Knighton, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Michael Kogan and Bonnie Strickland, Maternal and Child Health Bureau; Beth Han, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Lance McCluney and Jade Lee-Freeman, Environmental Protection Agency; and Kristen Kracke, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
In addition, Mary Ann Fox, Kristen Darling-Churchill, Lauren Drake, Katie Ferguson, Bo Chen, Kevin Bianco, and Tom Nachazel with the American Institutes for Research and Richard Devens with First XV Communications assisted Forum staff in producing the report.