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All posts tagged "child abuse"
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998GrantsCulturally-specific family/domestic violence prevention and trauma services grants
GRANT FOCUS: Violence Prevention, Domestic/Family Violence, Child Maltreatment, Underserved Communities | Amount: $200,000 - $250,000 | Deadline: Aug. 11, 2023
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4.0KNewsHow a partisan budget battle worsened Illinois’ foster care crisis
Illinois foster kids are staying in social workers' offices, conference centers and jails.
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5.0KNewsProposed reforms of ‘troubled teen industry’ fall short of promises
A promised "youth bill of rights" is absent from federal legislation introduced this spring.
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1.0KGrantsChild/family safety and well-being national hotline program grant
GRANT FOCUS: Child Well-being, Child Safety, Family Support, Hotline, Domestic Violence | Amount: $1,000,000 - $2,000,000 | Deadline: July 11, 2023
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2.8KNewsFive years in with millions unclaimed, is Family First helping kids and families yet?
The Family First Prevention Services Act aims to keep families together, whenever possible.
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3.1KNewsReport: Fewer teens in foster care, but less than half find permanent homes
By 2021, neglect was the leading cause the system removed teens from their families.
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1.8KNewsReport details ‘staggering’ church sex abuse in Maryland
More than 150 Catholic priests and others sexually abused over 600 children.
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10.9KNewsThe death of 17-year-old Taylor Goodridge is the latest test for Utah’s will to regulate the “troubled teen industry”
“On the internet, it looks like a great place," said an attorney for Taylor's family.
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6.3KOpinionNew York’s mandatory reporter training wants to have it both ways. That’s an improvement.
New York’s new online mandated reporter training course is less awful than its predecessors.
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1.7KNewsEx-state adviser implicated in youth center abuse lawsuits
David Ball is among roughly 150 former staffers who are implicated by former residents.
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2.0KNewsNative Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools
In Arizona alone, there were 47 federal Indian boarding schools.
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950Grants
Improving family supports in child maltreatment reporting and prevention program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Welfare, Child Maltreatment/Neglect, Family Support, Children/Youth in Poverty | Amount: $1,000,000 - $2,000,000 | Deadline: Mar. 13, 2023
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1.1KGrantsChild welfare system and early care/education partnership project support grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Welfare/Well-being, Early Care/Education, At-risk Children/Youth, Family Support | Amount: $250,000 - $275,000 | Deadline: Mar. 13, 2023
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2.4KNewsQ&A: Reporter Roxanna Asgarian’s upcoming book dives deep into the murder-suicide that killed six adopted Black children
There's a larger story behind the Hart murder-suicide, Asgarian says.
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4.3KOpinionYou don’t need a task force to tell you why institutionalized children run
Children run away from out-of-home placements because they are in out-of-home placements. Institutionalization is inherently harmful, inherently traumatic and almost never necessary....
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1.6KNewsLandmark trial begins over Arkansas’ ban on trans youth care
Arkansas was the first state to enact such a ban on gender-confirming care, with Republican lawmakers in 2021 overriding GOP Gov. Asa...
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2.5KNewsMandatory reporting was supposed to stop severe child abuse. It punishes poor families instead.
“Today, Pennsylvania says ‘No more’ to child abuse,” then-Gov. Tom Corbett declared as he signed the legislation into law in 2014. A...
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2.7KOpinionTexas caseworkers give us a lesson in whose lives matter
Sixteen current and former employees of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) have filed an amicus brief as part...
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957GrantsChild maltreatment in youth organizations national research project grant
GRANT FOCUS: Child Maltreatment, Child Abuse, Youth Organizations, Sexual Abuse, Research | Amount: $1,500,000 | Deadline: Oct. 24, 2022
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1.1KNewsOregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases
Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead...
