Youth Today
Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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Top Headlines for 11/28
Child Welfare Marcy Valenzuela, a former foster youth from East Los Angeles, makes the case in a Los Angeles Times op-ed that...
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Top Headlines for 11/23
Child Welfare It was an emotional day as Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) signed a bill extending foster care services until age...
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Top Headlines for 11/22
Child Welfare Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), chairwoman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension subcommittee on children and families, will...
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Top Headlines for 11/21
Child Welfare Benedict Carey of the New York Times reports on a recent study that found foster children are being prescribed cocktails...
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Top Headlines for 11/18
Child Welfare Very interesting read from Patrick Yeagle of the Illinois Times, who breaks down the various ways in which Catholic Charities...
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Top Headlines for 11/17
Child Welfare A federal judge is allowing the lawsuit against Oklahoma’s child welfare system to continue on with class-action status, reports the...
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Top Headlines for 11/16
Child Welfare In the wake of the Penn State scandal, Maryland lawmakers and child advocates want to establish criminal penalties for failing...
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Top Headlines for 11/15
Child Welfare President Obama directly acknowledged that his administration’s immigration enforcement practices break up families and exclude parents from decisions about the...
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Top Headlines for 11/14
Child Welfare Emily Canal of the New York Times wrote an excellent piece on the struggle of homeless families in the city...
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Top Headlines for 11/11
Child Welfare The Penn State scandal has brought attention to the question of who should be considered “mandated reporters” of child abuse,...
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Top Headlines for 11/10
Child Welfare Doctors and other mandatory reporters in hospitals are not always great about knowing when to call in abuse or maltreatment,...
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Top Headlines for 11/9
Child Welfare Forbes.com blogger Bob Cook writes that the Penn State scandal is a lesson in the fact that “rules designed to...
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Top Headlines for 11/8
Child Welfare Ambiguity in a state law on reporting child abuse could complicate the prosecution of Pennsylvania State University administrators in the...
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Top Headlines for 11/7
Child Welfare A New Jersey state appeals court ruled that foster parents in the state do not have the right to weigh...
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Top Headlines for 11/4
Child Welfare Rep. Jose Serrano blasted ICE over the report released yesterday showing 5,100 kids in foster care because of their parents’...
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Top Headlines for 11/3
Child Welfare Simone Wilson of L.A. Weekly digs into the report released yesterday that found 1,178 Los Angeles youth were in foster...
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Top Headlines for 11/2
Child Welfare The parents of Adolf Hitler Campbell and Aryan Nation Campbell have lost custody of those children and another daughter, reports...
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Top Headlines for 11/1
Child Welfare A long legal battle over Washington’s child welfare system ended today with an ambitious agreement to overhaul it in two...
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Top Headlines for 10/31
Child Welfare A Hawaii program aimed at helping drug-dependent parents avoid losing custody of their children will end in November, and another...
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Top Headlines for 10/28
Child Welfare A new audit in California found that 1,000 state-licensed care facilities for vulnerable people in California matched addresses on the...
