Youth Today
Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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Top Headlines 8/30
Child Welfare Steve Gravelle of SourceMedia Group News reports on the alarming foster care disparity in Linn County, Iowa, where 35 percent...
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Top Headlines 8/29
Child Welfare Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times reports on documents related to a lawsuit involving one of the most brazen...
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Top Headlines 8/26
Child Welfare Erwin McEwen, who has led the Department of Children and Family Services for Illinois since 2006, is stepping down at...
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Top Headlines 8/25
Child Welfare Regardless of one’s position on the dispute between Catholic Charities and state government over whether the former must license civil...
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Top Headlines 8/24
Child Welfare Alaska’s “Hot Sauce mom” has been convicted of misdemeanor child abuse, reports the International Business Times. Four former foster children...
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Top Headlines 8/23
Child Welfare Forty applicants for welfare assistance have been drug tested in Orlando under the new Florida eligibility requirements, reports Kenric Ward...
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Top Headlines 8/22
Child Welfare In New York City, reports Mosi Secret of the New York Times, some parents have lost their children temporarily to...
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Top Headlines 8/19
Child Welfare The State of Illinois has prevailed in the lawsuit brought by Catholic Charities over non-renewed contracts for foster care and...
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Top Headlines 8/18
Child Welfare Cheryl Wetzstein of the Washington Times reports on research by the American Values’ Center for Marriage and Families that says...
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Top Headlines 8/17
Child Welfare Rhode Island Rep. Jim Langevin is pushing legislation aimed at protecting foster children from identity theft, reports David Klepper of...
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Top Headlines 8/16
Child Welfare A popular Columbus, Ohio drop-in center for homeless youth will close in the middle of winter if funding isn’t scared...
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Top Headlines 8/15
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...
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Top Headlines 8/12
Child Welfare An internal investigation by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services into the death of 5-year-old Serenity Deal revealed child welfare...
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Top Headlines 8/11
Juvenile Justice Former Luzerne, Pa. County Juvenile Judge Mark Ciavarella was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison today for his role...
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Top Headlines 8/10
Child Welfare The top Miami administrator of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, who was reprimanded for the handling of the Barahona...
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Top Headlines 8/9
Child Welfare Las Vegas Sun’s Joe Schoenmann reports on the legacy of Tom Morton, a veteran consultant who became head of the...
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Top Headlines 8/8
Child Welfare Los Angeles County needs to make child welfare reports available for outside evaluation, says the editorial board of the LA...
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Top Headlines 8/5
Child Welfare David Klepper of the Chicago Tribune covers the Racial Justice Initiative forum in Rhode Island yesterday, which focused on the...
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Top Headlines 8/4
Child Welfare Tracy Overstreet of Nebraska’s The Indepdendent covers a hearing on the state’s effort to privatize child welfare services. The main...
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Top Headlines 8/3
Child Welfare Former Michigan foster youth Jerome Jones, in an op-ed for the Detroit News, lauds his home state for considering legislation...
