Child Welfare More Illinois affiliates of Catholic Charities are pulling out of foster care and adoption services following the state’s recognition of...
Child Welfare Inland Valley reporter Andrew Edwards reports on two California nonprofits working to connect youth aging out of foster care with...
Child Welfare Craig Malisow of the Houston Press takes an in-depth look at the federal class-action lawsuit filed against the child welfare...
Child Welfare A new law being proposed in Michigan would make it more difficult for child welfare workers to remove a child...
Child Welfare In Montgomery County, Ohio, reports Joanne Smith of the Dayton Daily News, officials are pushing back against a mandate by...
Child Welfare Something to watch in a number of states: Manya Brachear of the Chicago Tribune reports on one of the state’s...
Child Welfare California Democrats are backing the restoration of $440 million for state-subsidized child care, which two months ago was cut in...
Child Welfare The State of Maine and the Native American tribes that reside there came to an agreement that will set up...
Child Welfare Treehouse Foundation CEO Judy Cockerton writes in the Huffington Post that the field needs to make better use of citizens...
Child Welfare More than 200 new child welfare workers were to be sworn in today in Michigan, part of the state’s response...
Child Welfare Catherine Jun of the Detroit News profiles new jurist-cum-child welfare boss Maura Corrigan, who told Jun she hopes to lean...
Child Welfare Christopher Keating of the Hartford Courant reports on a state bill that would link cases of child abuse and cases...
Child Welfare Los Angeles County supervisors have stripped the county CEO of responsibility for child protective services and the probation department, The...
Child Welfare Former Florida child welfare director George Sheldon will become the acting head of the Administration for Children and Families for...
Child Welfare Ginnie Graham of The Oklahoman covers the state’s ongoing legal battle with Children’s Rights, a New York-based nonprofit that filed...
***Notes is back after a one-week hiatus brought on by, of all things, a website hacker. When we opened up the Youth...
Child Welfare Beware of racial bias in child welfare, warned social work professor Alan Dettlaff at a recent social justice conference. Kay...
Child Welfare Carole Mattessich of Shore News Today had a great story yesterday on a group of New Jersey community college students...
Child Welfare Connecticut came up well short of its goal of adding 850 new foster families in accordance with a federal court...
Child Welfare Michigan caseworkers don’t get to take children into foster care without a judge’s say-so, writes state child welfare director Maura...