Youth Today
Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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Top Headlines for 10/27
Child Welfare The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that adoption proceedings for an Indian child whose parents’ rights were terminated must take place...
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Top Headlines for 10/26
Child Welfare South Dakota, and a number of other states, are not living up to federal requirements when it comes to foster...
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Top Headlines for 10/25
Child Welfare A gang of vigilante computer hackers linked to the Anonymous group is taking down websites that portray child abuse and...
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Top Headlines for 10/24
Child Welfare Indiana has spent the past few years moving away from residential placements and toward foster families, report Kathleen Quilligan and...
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Top Headlines for 10/21
Child Welfare In Pittsburgh and nearby Pennsylvania counties, reports Timothy Puko of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, big cuts to child welfare spending are...
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Top Headlines for 10/20
Child Welfare Child welfare advocate and journalist Daniel Heimpel, in the Huffington Post, wrote in support of an amendment addressing educational stability...
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Top Headlines for 10/19
Child Welfare Officials with the Clark County (Las Vegas) Department of Family Services want to better monitor the use of psychotropic medications...
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Top Headlines for 10/18
Child Welfare Michael Petit, president of Every Child Matters, wonders in an op-ed for the BBC why child abuse is so acute...
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Top Headlines for 10/17
Child Welfare University of Massachusetts student Melissa Peterkin, writing an op-ed for the Boston Globe, reports on a state law that intended...
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Top Headlines for 10/14
Child Welfare An Illinois state senator has introduced legislation that would permit faith-based foster care and adoption service providers to pass on...
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Top Headlines for 10/13
Child Welfare A former Nebraska state senator wants the feds to investigate the reform and privatization of the state’s child welfare system,...
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Top Headlines for 10/12
Child Welfare Virginia’s Board of Social Services may reconsider its vote last spring to allow faith-based adoption services organizations to discriminate against...
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Top Headlines for 10/11
Child Welfare David Klepper of the Associated Press reports on the new federal law, signed into law on Sept. 30, aimed at...
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Top Headlines for 10/7
Child Welfare Some lawmakers and advocates are disappointed that the Federal Trade Commission is not expanding the scope of the Children’s Online...
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Top Headlines for 10/6
Child Welfare A citizen-led review panel of recent child abuse investigations by the Washington, D.C. Child and Family Services Agency said that...
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Top Headlines for 10/5
Child Welfare Joe Grove of Arkansas’ Paragould Daily Press spent a day with Division of Children and Family Services’ caseworker Kim Dobbs...
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Top Headlines for 10/4
Child Welfare Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn tapped a veteran at his Department of Children and Family Services to replace Erwin McEwen at...
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Top Headlines for 10/3
Child Welfare Jay Scott Brown, co-chairman of the Oklahoma Foster Care System Improvement Task Force, updates readers of The Oklahoman on the...
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Top Headlines for 9/30
Child Welfare Florida child welfare boss David Wilkins is touring the state garnering political will for a $60 million budget bump to...
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Top Headlines for 9/29
Child Welfare Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer cancelled her trip to Mexico last week to go over potential reforms and changes to the...
