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All posts tagged "child abuse"
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766GrantsAlaska community child abuse and neglect prevention grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Abuse/Neglect, Child Maltreatment, Child Safety, Alaska | Amount: Up to $50,000 | Deadline: Mar. 15, 2024; Mar. 22, 2024
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636Grants
Kansas City area child abuse/neglect prevention, treatment and services grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Abuse/Neglect, Child Welfare/Well-being, Child Safety, Kansas City | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Feb. 5, 2024 (statements of interest)
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1.1KGrantsCulturally-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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4.3KNewsHow 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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5.3KNewsProposed 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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1.1KGrantsChild/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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3.0KNewsFive 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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3.3KNewsReport: 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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1.9KNewsReport details ‘staggering’ church sex abuse in Maryland
More than 150 Catholic priests and others sexually abused over 600 children.
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11.2KNewsThe 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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6.7KOpinionNew 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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1.8KNewsEx-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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2.1KNewsNative Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools
In Arizona alone, there were 47 federal Indian boarding schools.
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1.1KGrants
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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1.2KGrantsChild 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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2.6KNewsQ&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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4.5KOpinionYou 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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1.8KNewsLandmark 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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2.7KNewsMandatory 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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2.8KOpinionTexas 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...
