Governors Launch Campaign To Improve Children's Services

By Deborah L. Cohen

The National Governors' Association launched a campaign last month to call attention to children's issues and laid out a set of principles designed to help agencies and communities serve children better.

Gov. Howard B. Dean of Vermont, the group's new chairman, announced the "Governors' Campaign for Children'' at the N.G.A.'s annual meeting, held in Boston last month.

While discussions on health care and welfare reform drew most of the headlines, the group's consensus on children's issues signals a willingness among governors to assume greater leadership in that area, said Linda McCart, the association's program director for...