Child Welfare A number of executives have resigned from Florida’s Department of Children and Families since the death of a 10-year-old foster...
Child Welfare Two top officials of the Florida Department of Children and Families have left their posts in the wake of the...
Child Welfare Ana Valdes of the Palm Beach Post reports that three events to be held today could all shed light on...
Child Welfare Rob Manning of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on OPB’s website about a conundrum in the state’s foster care system: That...
Child Welfare Miami network WSVN reports on another alarming phone call made to the Department of Children and Families days before two...
Child Welfare Add Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to the list of governors who have an eye on consolidating child welfare and juvenile...
Child Welfare David Crary of the Associated Press sets the scene nicely with this breakdown of Camreta v. Greene, a case involving...
Quick one today, since we have covered the big development on federal juvenile justice – Obama’s plan to overhaul funds connected to...
Child Welfare Two stories on the chilling Florida abuse case involving 10-year-old twins Nubia and Victor Docter (both were covered with toxic...
Child Welfare It wasn’t too long ago that Nebraska media reported the legislature was unlikely to get involved in the state’s move...
Child Welfare Parents at the school attended by a 10-year-old found dead in the back of her father’s pickup truck had worried...
Child Welfare Bethania Palma Markus of the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports on a cost-neutral program that has shown results in keeping...
Child Welfare Randy Ellis of The Oklahoman reports on a local study that found high rates of abuse for kids while they...
Child Welfare Workers brought in from Michigan’s child welfare recruiting drive will face some serious caseloads once they are on the job,...
Child Welfare The Boston Globe reports on how a plan to close three children’s shelters immediately, which serve about 200 abused and...
Child Welfare The Associated Press reports (via MSNBC) on a study in the journal Pediatrics that energy drinks are dangerous for teens....
Budget Bob Greene of Lousiana’s WLTV.com reports the local angle on the potential elimination of AmeriCorps, which House Republicans included in their...
Child Welfare Kim Maldonado of NBC Los Angeles reports on a 6-year-old who was taken to a psych ward after making a...
Child Welfare The Massachusetts child welfare system has absorbed $100 million in cuts over the past four years, reports the Boston Herald’s...
Child Welfare Child welfare advocates in Massachusetts are trying to get reinstatement of $100 million in budget cuts to the child welfare...