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The State of Missouri's Children: 2009
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2009-01)
A variety of problems affect the children of Missouri. The report contains details in categories including poverty, nutrition, education, health and welfare, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence.
Insuring Quality Long-Term Nursing Care
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2008-04)
The oldest members of the Baby Boom generation born between 1946 and 1964 will turn sixty-five in 2011. As the size of our senior population increases over the next few decades, so will their health care needs. In the early ...
Pediatric Dental Health Care: Recommended Practices for Helping Children and Parents
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2003-02)
This brief contains recommendations focused on early childhood education practices that can strengthen pediatric dental care. It included recommendations for educating both parents and children in dental practices.
Who is Educating Missouri's Youngest Children?
(Center for Family Policy and Research, 2005)
The total size of Missouri's early childhood workforce is unknown. We do know that approximately 16,000 early childhood professionals work in the over 4,000 licensed programs. The workforce also includes about 5,150 persons ...
Parents as Teachers (PAT) for Families with Low Incomes: A Collaborative Approach for Children Birth to Three
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2005)
The Early Childhood Development Act of 1984 mandated that every school district in Missouri provide Parents as Teachers services to families with children birth to age 5. In 2003-04, a total of 45% of families in Missouri ...
Early Childhood Workforce Retention Rates: What factors impact the statistics?
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2002)
When studying early childhood programs, it is important to look at two areas of workforce statistics: job retention rates and compensation data (salary and benefits). Across the nation, the early childhood field experiences ...
Child Care Quality for Children with Disabilities
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2004-04)
In 2000, university researchers and state child care program partners in four states (Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska) initiated the Midwest Child Care Research Consortium (MCCRC). The focus of the Consortium's work ...
Rural Child Care in Missouri: How to Improve it
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2005)
During 1997 and 1998, a large study called Project REACH (Rural EArly CHildhood Professional Development Initiative), was conducted in a series of interventions over a 16 month period in rural Missouri. The training and ...
Corporal Punishment in Schools
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2004)
The United States is one of only three industrialized nations that still permit the use of corporal punishment in its public schools. Schools are the only American institution where this practice is allowed. It has been ...
Children's Health Insurance
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2003)
Children without health insurance are more likely to go without necessary medical care and attention, putting their development and health at risk. MC+ for Kids has positively impacted many of Missouri's children.
Mineral supplements for beef cattle (2001)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2001)
Beef cattle require a number of dietary mineral elements for normal bodily maintenance, growth, and reproduction. Minerals that are required in relatively large amounts are called major or macro elements. Those needed in ...
Dairy Waste Management Systems in Missouri (2004)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2004)
Missouri dairy manure management can be classified into three systems -- solid, slurry or lagoon -- depending on the collection, transportation and distribution of manure on the fields. These systems are dependent on the ...
Roof Gutters for Dairy Barns (2009)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
Roof gutters may be needed with livestock facilities to divert clean water from contaminated lot runoff and minimize the total quantity of waste effluent requiring proper disposal.
Spreading dairy waste without lab analysis and with soil tests (2009)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
A primary need and concern for most confinement livestock producers is managing manure so that groundwater and surface water are protected and regulatory requirements are fulfilled. This objective is usually accomplished ...
Small flock series: incubation of poultry (2003)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2003)
Hatching eggs -- watching an egg turn into a baby chick -- is a learning experience for students of all ages as well as a practical way for you to start a small poultry flock. The incubation process is relatively simple, ...
Basics of bird flu: avian influenza
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
Avian influenza, or bird flu, is an infectious respiratory disease that affects a variety of birds. The various strains of virus that cause bird flu are generally categorized as high or low pathogenicity according to their ...
Spreading dairy waste with lab analysis but without soil tests (2009)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
A primary need and concern for most confinement livestock producers is managing manure so that groundwater and surface water are protected and regulatory requirements are fulfilled. This objective is usually accomplished ...
Navicular syndrome in horses (2000)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2000)
Navicular disease often begins as an inflammation of the bursa between the deep digital flexor tendon and the navicular bone of the foot. While the joint surfaces of the phalanges may not be affected, the tendon adjacent ...
Splints in horses (2003)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2003)
Most people who own or breed horses are familiar with the cannon bone of the horse limb. On each side of the cannon bone is a small bone known as the splint bone. The small splint bones are thin and taper to become a small ...
Dead Poultry Composter Project: David Boyd Composter (2009)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
A grant of EPA funds was made available by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in October 1990 to selected southwest Missouri poultry producers representing each of the five major poultry processing companies. The ...