Health & Safety

February 23th, 2026
Health and Safety
  • The percentage of DC children covered by Medicaid or Healthy Families pulls from a DC Department of Health Care Finance presentation.
  • Child enrollment in Medicaid and the percent of the child population covered by DC Medicaid (excluding DC Healthy Families enrollees) pull from The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families’ Snapshot of Children with Medicaid by Race and Ethnicity, 2018. While that data point has been updated for other states since then, for DC there is an insufficient sample to do so, per https://kidshealthcarereport.ccf.georgetown.edu/states/district-of-columbia.
  • Child enrollment in DC Healthy Families data points pull from the DC Department of Health Care Finance Monthly Medicaid and Alliance Enrollment Reports.
  • Data points on consistency of health insurance coverage and having had a preventative care visit in the past year use the 2023-2024 two-year averages from the National Survey of Child Health data.
  • All data points about rates of suicide attempts pull from 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey results.
  • SNAP child enrollment is based on responses to data requests to the Department of Human Services, as reported on the Kids Count Data Center. Data on the race of the head of household in families receiving SNAP are from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s FY2023 Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households report.
  • Information about the number of grocery stores per ward pulls from DC  Hunger Solutions 2023 report “Still Minding the Grocery Gap in D.C: a 2023 Update.”
  • Data on foster care participation pull from https://cfsadashboard.dc.gov.
  • Information on police stops and searches of minors pull from https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/1464816. Determination of rates by race was made using the single-year estimates of population by age at https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/8446-child-population-by-race-and-ethnicity-and-age-group?loc=10&loct=3#detailed/3/any/false/1096,2545,1095,2048,574,1729,37,871,870,573/12,8367,69,67,70,71,66,13|62,63,30/17077,17078.
  • Information on use-of-force pulls from https://mpdc.dc.gov/publication/use-force-data-set.
  • Information on arrests of minors pulls from https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/biannual-reports-juvenile-arrests.
  • Home visiting data pull from the 2024 annual report.
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DC Kids Count is powered by DC Action and provides the best available data to measure and track the well-being of our District’s children and young adults. Research for DC Kids Count is funded in part by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The findings and conclusions presented are those of DC Action’s alone, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Foundation.