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All posts tagged "child abuse"
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640GrantsChild 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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1.6KNewsQ&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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1.1KNewsLandmark 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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1.8KNewsMandatory 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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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayTexas 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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634GrantsChild 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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669NewsOregon 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...
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628GrantsNative/tribal child abuse response improvement program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Welfare, Child Abuse/Maltreatment, Child Safety, Native/Tribal Youth | Amount: Up to $750,000 | Deadline: May 17, 2022
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1.2KNewsFirst pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning
As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis' historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches...
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3.0KNewsMissouri regulates boarding schools after abuse allegations
The new law approved last year followed extensive reporting from The Kansas City Star that found that several faith-based boarding schools, including...
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1.9KNewsShackles and Solitary: Inside Louisiana’s Harshest Juvenile Lockup
Scrambling to respond to a wave of violence and escapes from other juvenile detention facilities, Louisiana state officials quietly opened the high-security...
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5.7KGuest Opinion EssayIn child welfare, if the solution is money, the problem is poverty
In the beginning, the builders of what would become a system of massive intrusion into families, and, ultimately, the separation of millions...
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1.3KGrantsOregon disadvantaged community program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Disadvantaged Communities, Racial Equity, LGBTQ, Homelessness, Oregon | Amount: Up to $40,000 | Deadline: Mar. 30, 2022
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734GrantsFamily justice improvement program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Family/Domestic Violence, Justice, Child Maltreatment, Child Welfare, Child Safety | Amount: $550,000 - $650,000 | Deadline: Mar. 7, 2022
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2.0KNewsWith windfall, city tries to reach kids trapped in violence
After a pandemic year when the violent crime rate in Illinois' fifth-largest city soared along with much of the rest of the...
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1.2KNewsData on child abuse in New Mexico called into question
Data on child abuse in New Mexico has been called into question after lawmakers raised concerns that the former director of the...
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662NewsKansas Governor Signs Welfare Measure Named for Murdered Boy
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' child welfare department and law enforcement officers soon will be required to visually observe a child when...
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613GrantsFamily Violence Prevention and Services Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Welfare, Family Violence, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence | Amount: $800,000 - $1,500,000 | Deadline: June 28, 2021
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayHigh Court’s Recent Juvenile Lifer Ruling is Barbaric
The U.S. Supreme Court last month affirmed that lifetime imprisonment without the possibility of parole is just punishment for Brett Jones, who...
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833GrantsCommunity-Based Child Abuse Prevention in Native and Migrant Communities Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Abuse/Maltreatment, Native/Tribal Communities, Migrant Communities, Family Support | Amount: $75,000 - $202,200 | Deadline: Apr. 20, 2021
