Child Welfare A Chicago-based nonprofit has worked with a Milwaukee church to help establish 24 households where children in crisis can go...
Child Welfare Opponents of Florida’s new drug test requirement for welfare applicants tell Orlando Sentinel reporter Kate Santich that the rule will...
Child Welfare Joseph Shapiro of NPR reports on the debate over Shaken Baby Syndrome, a diagnosis, he writes, that some say is...
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 Sara Kincaid of the Bismarck Tribune reports on how the flooding of the Missouri River has reduced the number of...
Child Welfare California is restoring the funding to child care that it recently cut, reports the Associated Press. The cuts, brought on...
Child Welfare Funding for therapeutic foster parents in Arkansas will be cut in half as of July 1, reports Stephanie Simoni of...
Child Welfare Mary Kuhlman of Public News Service in Ohio reports on outrage by state child advocates over a provision slipped into...
Child Welfare Massachusetts advocates for foster families called the current per diem rates in the state “ridiculous,” reports Michael Norton of the...
Child Welfare More child welfare agencies are going the extra mile to find fathers of abused children and bring them back into...
Child Welfare Another headache for proponents of privatizing child welfare in Nebraksa: one of the two remaining private providers in the state...
Child Welfare Connecticut child welfare boss Joette Katz, in an interview with Jacqueline Rabe of the CT Mirror, said she will not...
Child Welfare Oregon may subsidize the post-secondary education of former foster care children who attend the state’s universities, reports Cassie Strauss and...
Child Welfare Kris Kitto of The Hill reports on a small group of staffers and Congressmen in Washington who are developing foster...
Child Welfare U.S. Census data show that more children are being adopted by same sex couples, despite state laws that leave the...
Child Welfare Reuters reports on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s estimates for child-raising costs. Middle-income parents with a child born in 2010...
Child Welfare Pam Adams of the Journal Star reports on the lawsuit filed by Catholic Charities agencies in Peoria, Springfield and Joliet...
Child Welfare The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit yesterday on behalf of Texas child welfare workers, reports L.M. Sixel of...
Child Welfare The Neward Star-Ledger reports that the court-appointed monitor for New Jersey’s child welfare agency has asked the state to...
Child Welfare Kathaleen Roberts of the Albuquerque Journal reports on the Heart Gallery, a New Mexico program that uses snapshots to help...