Child Health Child Health Goals

To mark our 20th anniversary, the Children's Campaign announced our organization's 20 Goals for 2010. We look forward to reaffirming our vision of creating hope and opportunity for Colorado children and working with a wide range of partners for the next 20 years.

  • Reduce the percentage of children without health insurance to 7%.

  • Increase the percentage of women receiving prenatal care in their first trimester of pregnancy to 90%.

  • Increase the percentage of Colorado children who are fully immunized by age 3 to 80%.

  • Increase the percentage of children with access to school-based health center care to 20%.

  • Reduce the percentage of Colorado children with untreated dental decay to 21%.

  • Improve the behavioral health of Colorado teens.
    - Reduce marijuana use to 1%
    - Reduce cigarette smoking to 21%
    - Reduce alcohol use to 11%
    - Reduce attempted suicides to 1% or fewer
    - Reduce the teen suicide rate to 6.0 deaths per 100,000

  • Increase the number of health care and early childhood care and education providers who are formally trained to provide mental health assessments of young children to 120.