Youth Today
Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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Top Headlines 8/2
Child Welfare Cuts to the federal Mentoring Children of Prisoners program forced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to end...
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Top Headlines for 8/1
Child Welfare Subcontractors in Nebraska’s somewhat-privatized child welfare system are getting jobbed when the lead providers go out of business, reports Joanne...
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Top Headlines 7/29
Child Welfare Pat Phillips of Illinois’ News-Gazette reports on efforts to reconstruct the final weeks of Travis Messenger, a 12-year-old boy who...
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Top Headlines 7/28
Apologies on the delay today! Child Welfare A Queens family court judge has been named to head New York City’s Administration for...
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Top Headlines 7/27
Child Welfare As more children are placed in foster families, adopted or returned to their birth parents, the number of group foster...
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Top Headlines 7/26
Child Welfare Gay teens in Massachusetts are more likely to be homeless than their heterosexual peers, according to new research from the...
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Top Headlines 7/25
Child Welfare Nebraska turned to out-sourcing many of the functions of the state child welfare agency to gain stability, cut costs and...
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Top Headlines 7/22
Child Welfare A Pennsylvania program that pays for child care teachers to take college courses has been eliminated due to budget cuts,...
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Top Headlines 7/21
Child Welfare The Washington Post’s Maggie Fazell Fard profiles a nonprofit helping a group of D.C. foster children imagine a life after...
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Top Headlines 7/20
Child Welfare The Juvenile Welfare Board in Pinellas County, Fla., will end a 30-year-old mentoring program in September because of budget cuts,...
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Top Headlines 7/19
Child Welfare Both sides involved the Michigan foster-care reform (the state, and the nonprofit named Children’s Rights that sued it) are happy...
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Top Headlines 7/18
Child Welfare Ryan Hagen of the San Bernardino Sun profiles a local program created recently to assist youths who have aged out...
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Top Headlines 7/15
Child Welfare A Michigan judge may slow down the timeline on court-ordered reform of the state’s child welfare system, reports Robin Erb...
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Top Headlines 7/14
Child Welfare Early on in the Minnesota government shut down, reports Warren Wolfe of the Minnesota Star Tribune, a county judge has...
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Top Headlines 7/13
Child Welfare A county judge has placed Illinois’ termination of Catholic Charities’ foster care and adoption contracts on hold until an August...
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Top Headlines 7/12
Child Welfare The State of Illinois has decided to stop doing business with Catholic Charities when it comes to foster care and...
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Top Headlines 7/11
Child Welfare The number of incidences of family violence in military families was on the decline but has been increasing, reports Nancy...
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Top Headlines 7/8
Child Welfare Prosecutors may be less likely to charge murder in alleged child abuse deaths as a result of the Casey Anthony...
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Top Headlines 7/7
Child Welfare Some child welfare advocates in New Jersey are pushing for increased involvement in court proceedings for children whose path back...
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Top Headlines 7/6
Child Welfare Two nice tales of donations to beleaguered child welfare systems: Contra Costa Times of California reports on a vote to...
