The Child Indicator: The Child, Youth, and Family Indicators Newsletter, 2002-2003.

This document consists of the 2002-2003 issues of a quarterly newsletter intended to communicate the major developments within each sector of the child and youth indicators field. The newsletters feature regular sections on the community, state, and national scenes, and include sections of resources and data. The Summer 2002 issue includes articles on the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on state education indicators, the release of the Child Trends data bank, the International Social Survey Program, the 2002 National Youth Summit, and the Philadelphia Safe and Sound organization. The Winter 2003 issue includes articles on results of the California Health Interview Survey, sources of children's health data, a Child Trends research brief series on American teenagers, delays in the implementation of the American Community Survey, and technical assistance workshops for states regarding youth indicators. The Spring 2003 issue identifies new online resources from KIDS COUNT, describes data tools available through the Let's Invest in Families Today Web site, describes recent research from the Innocenti Research Center in Italy, and discusses the role of child well-being indicators in monitoring children in child welfare settings. The Summer/Fall 2003 issue includes articles on Oregon benchmarks, social indicators in the service of social change in South Africa, questions about the National Vital Statistics System, the Indicators of Positive Development Conference, and the Baltimore Neighborhoods Indicators Alliance. (KB)