All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  CWLA Slashes Staff in Overhaul

  Christine James-Brown has made her first extremely painful decision since taking over the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) in April: cutting...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  New Center Focuses on Education

  Casey Family Programs and the American Bar Association (ABA) Center on Children and the Law have launched a national clearinghouse on the...

• Providers Chafed by Eight-Year Delay

  After waiting several years for a system to collect data on youth aging out of foster care, U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Bolder Options

  Shaping relationships: Mentor Katie Elden runs with her mentee, Tajh’et Horne. Photo: Photo courtesy of Bolder Options Minneapolis (612) 379-BOLD www.bolderoptions.org Objective:...

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  African American Children in Foster Care: Additional HHS Assistance Needed to Help States Reduce the Proportion in Care

  U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Asked to analyze the major factors behind the disproportionately high number of African-American children in foster care,...

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  What We Know Now that We Didn’t Know Then about the Criminal Justice System’s Involvement in Families with Whom Child Welfare Agencies Have Contact

  Center for Social Policy and Research, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago In the decade since the...

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  Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help

  The Commonwealth Fund More than 13 million adults ages 19 to 29 lacked health insurance coverage in 2005, according to this report....

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  HHS Actions Would Help States Prepare Youth in the Foster Care System for Independent Living

  U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) In assessing the implementation of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (FCIA), which doubled federal funding...

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  Under One Roof: Primary Care Models that Work for Adolescents

  Incenter Strategies/MCH Policy Research Center This report describes an interdisciplinary model of physical, behavioral and reproductive health care operating in a hospital-based...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Rules Proposed for Sex Offender Registries

  The release of proposed guidelines for the Sex Offender Registration Notification Act (SORNA) unveiled the new system to be used by localities...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Foster Youth Stay In Census Survey

  Responding to objections from child welfare advocates and lawmakers, the U.S. Census Bureau has reversed course and decided to keep the category...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  City Asks Gays to Adopt

  While adoption by gays is a hot button issue in most of the country, San Francisco appears to be the first jurisdiction...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Anatomy of a Win for Foster Kids

  The first time I set foot in my present place of employment – Spectrum Youth and Family Services in Burlington, Vt. –...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Gay Youths Find Place to Call Home in Specialty Shelters

  The New York Times Responding to the needs of a high number of gay youths in the homeless population, several specialty shelters...

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  A Response to No One Ever Asked Us: A Review of Children’s Experiences in Out-of-Home Care

  Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (Vol. 24, No. 1) In order to better understand children’s perspectives on out-of-home care, the researchers...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Keeping Siblings Together in Foster Care

  Best practice theories hold that foster children should maintain contact with their biological parents unless there’s strong reason not to. Until recently,...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Annie E. Casey Foundation

  www.aecf.org  The foundation’s new and improved website provides easier access to “information about Casey’s work, approach to philanthropy and lessons learned about...

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  Time for Reform: Aging Out and On Their Own

  Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative/Kids Are Waiting This report presents the latest state-by-state data on the number of youth who have aged...

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  Federal Resources on Missing and Exploited Children

  Federal Agency Task Force for Missing and Exploited Children The fifth edition of this federal directory compiles a list of agencies and...

• Research

  Assessment of Self-Injurious Thoughts Using a Behavioral Test?

  American Journal of Psychiatry/Harvard University Abstract at http://www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/164/5/820. Mindful of the fact that youth who intentionally injure themselves are often unable or...