An essential resource for professionals in the child welfare field are the voices of those with lived experience who are willing to...
Who are youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? The population of youth with IDD is vast. In 2018-19, the number of...
CASA of Los Angeles seeks a skilled Chief Executive Officer excited by, and dedicated to, the organization’s mission, vision, and core values....
Normative relationships are based on the assumption that individuals are capable of making decisions for themselves. When that individual is a minor...
Allies for Children seeks a dynamic and courageous leader to serve as its next Executive Director to advocate for the health, education,...
My name is Cristal and I am a former foster youth from Bakersfield, California. I spent about 11 years in the Kern...
More than 40,000 K–12 public school students in Washington experienced homelessness in 2017–18, a number that has nearly doubled in the past...
This summer was filled with disappointments as each camp I had enrolled my daughter in — both day camp and overnight camp...
What is your normal? As a 9-year-old, emptiness and depression became my normal moving forward. We escaped Children’s Protective Services to squat...
Her son spent a decade behind bars for an accidental shooting in which a young woman was killed. Then, instead of a...
The #SayHerName movement that was launched in 2014 by the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy...
NCSL POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT – Deadline to apply December 09, 2020, 5p.m. MST JOB TITLE: ...
The recent wildfires in California have been relentless reminders of these extraordinary times. Working for a nonprofit supporting camps and out-of-school time...
HALFPOINT/SHUTTERSTOCK Not so long ago, the word “pods” conjured images of body snatchers invading our communities or herds of marine mammals. Today,...
I was excited to work toward fulfilling the prerequisites for graduate school. My ultimate dream is to work as a physician assistant...
Flash forward to today. Death by gun violence has surpassed motor vehicle deaths nationwide, and mass shootings are an everyday occurrence. There...
ESTONES TENKA/SHUTTERSTOCK More than 115,000 Americans will be shot and 40,000 will die from gun violence this year alone — just like...
When four youth choruses held a concert in Dallas last October, the audience wasn’t left twiddling their thumbs while each group walked...
The National Conference of State Legislatures published a comprehensive report in April 2018 that said the position of the state ombudsman for...
There are policies and practices that have been proven to work for communities that embrace them. Adopting such measures need not be...