Child Welfare University of Massachusetts student Melissa Peterkin, writing an op-ed for the Boston Globe, reports on a state law that intended...
Child Welfare Gov. Rick Snyder (R-Mich.) signed into law yesterday a four-year limit on cash welfare benefits, meaning that thousands of families...
Child Welfare Rhode Island Rep. Jim Langevin is pushing legislation aimed at protecting foster children from identity theft, reports David Klepper of...
Child Welfare David Klepper of the Associated Press reports on Rhode Island’s use of out-of-state placements for foster youths, some of whom...
Child Welfare Former Michigan foster youth Jerome Jones, in an op-ed for the Detroit News, lauds his home state for considering legislation...
Child Welfare A Chicago-based nonprofit has worked with a Milwaukee church to help establish 24 households where children in crisis can go...
Education/Jobs Stephen Steigleder, writing for the Center for American Progress website, provides a guide to the Senate bill to reauthorize the Workforce...
Child Welfare Pam Adams of the Journal Star reports on the lawsuit filed by Catholic Charities agencies in Peoria, Springfield and Joliet...
Child Welfare Connecticut came up well short of its goal of adding 850 new foster families in accordance with a federal court...
Child Welfare Michigan caseworkers don’t get to take children into foster care without a judge’s say-so, writes state child welfare director Maura...
Child Welfare North Dakota needs a child welfare ombudsman, among other things, writes activist John Ford in an op-ed that appeared in...
***The staff at Youth Today has been hard at work finishing up our April print issue, which by the way include our...
Child Welfare Stacey Patton reports for Black Voice News on the report released a few months ago that found that racial bias...
Child Welfare Journal-Inquirer Managing Editor Chris Powell mourns what he calls just another month in Connecticut’s decline, citing a number of violent...
Child Welfare Texas is the latest state to face a class-action lawsuit from nonprofit litigator Children’s Rights, reports Terri Langford of the...
Child Welfare The New Jersey Star-Ledger said trying two New York City caseworkers for criminally negligent homicide could have a “chilling effect”...
Cold, hard facts are unassailable, but often are disregarded. Such ignorance comes with looming peril. Here’s a pair of textbook examples. Fact...
Child Welfare Ana Valdes of the Palm Beach Post reports that three events to be held today could all shed light on...
***The President released his 2012 budget on Monday, and it included a proposal to drastically change the structure of federal juvenile justice...
Child Welfare George State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver wrote a long op-ed in yesterday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the state’s use of psychotropic...