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Top Headlines 12/8

Child Welfare After a D.C. City Council meeting about welfare benefits and the increasing role of government in the lives of children...

Top Headlines 12/7

Child Welfare Nobody can point to a specific reason that juvenile and child welfare caseloads are plummeting in Massachusetts, reports the Boston...

Top Headlines 12/6

Child Welfare Rhode Island is desperate for more foster families now that three of its emergency child welfare shelters are slated to...

Top headlines 12/2

Child Welfare Russia and the United States are close to a new agreement on adoption policies, reports the Tennessean’s Chris Echegaray. A...

Top Headlines 12/1

Child Welfare Connecticut Gov.-elect Dan Malloy has tapped a state supreme court justice to head up the Department of Children and Families....

Top Headlines 11/30

Child Welfare Tennessee announced that it would be one of four states working with the Center for the Study of Social Policy...

Top Headlines 11/29

Child Welfare Research indicates that New York City’s policy of charging the parents of chronic truants with educational neglect is not working...

Top Headlines 11/24

***There will be no ‘Top Headlines’ Thursday 11/25 or Friday 11/26 as Youth Today staff celebrate Thanksgiving and recover from turkey comas***...

Top Headlines 11/23

Child Welfare Sasha Aslanian of Minnesota Public Radio looks into the steep drop in child abuse cases in the state that began...

Top Headlines 11/22

Child Welfare More coverage of Los Angeles County’s child welfare system, which is now as much a story about how the situation...

Top Headlines 11/17

Child Welfare Daniel Heimpel, a former child welfare reporter who now runs the nonprofit Fostering Media Connections, rips the L.A. Times for...

Top Headlines 11/16

Child Welfare The hot public debate in Nebraska over how fast to proceed with privatization of child welfare reached the top rungs...

Top Headlines 11/15

Child Welfare Wall Street Journal’s Tamara Audi reports on the potential “crisis” level in Los Angeles County’s child welfare system. Meanwhile, Richard...

Top Headlines 11/12

Child Welfare The L.A. Times’ Garrett Therolf reports on a backlog of 10,000 child abuse investigations in Los Angeles County. The social...

Top Headlines 11/10

Child Welfare Youth advocates and service providers in Nebraska will meet today to discuss the state’s shaky move towards privatization, and call...

Top Headlines 11/9

Child Welfare Washington, D.C. has settled for $10 million with a five-year-old boy who the city placed with an abusive foster mother,...

Top Headlines 11/8

Child Welfare The Orlando Sentinel’s editorial board said that Florida Department of Children and Families needs to be clearer and transparent about...

John Kline and Juvenile Justice

***The midterm elections brought a power shift to the House of Representatives, which means that a Republican-led Education and Labor Committee will...

Top Headlines 11/5

Child Welfare Melissa del Bosque of the Texas Observer examines the process of repatriating Mexican children who are deported without their families....