Statistics from “WE ARE IWES!”
Statistics from “Who’s In That NUmber?”
References
Pew Charitable Trusts - Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility
U.S. Department of Education - Consolidated State Report, Louisiana 2012-2013
U.S. Census Bureau - Coresident Grandparents and their Grandchildren: 2012
Kids Count Data Center, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation - Children In Immigrant Families In Which Resident Parents Are Not U.S. Citizens
The Data Center - The New Orleans Youth Index, 2015
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vital Signs - Today's Heroin Epidemic: More people at risk, multiple drugs abused, 2015
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2013
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - National Survey on Drug Use and Health, State-Specific Tables: Louisiana, 2012-2013
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network - National School Climate Survey: School Climate in Louisiana, 2011
Child Trends - Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children?, 2015
U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics - Medical Problems of State and Federal Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2011–12 (released in 2015)
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network - National School Climate Survey, 2013: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools
Child Trends - School Communication in Parents' Native Language, 2015
Child Trends - Immigrant Children: Indicators on Children and Youth