All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Who Cares for Our Children: The Child Care Crisis in the Other America

  Valerie Polakow Teachers College Press 240 pages, $19.95. A careful, provocative analysis of the heartbreaking trials of low-income families in need of...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Physical Activity and Health of Hong Kong Youth

  David P. Johns and Koenraad J. Lindner The Chinese University Press 254 pages, $27. Written by professionals for clinicians, medical practitioners and...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Guidelines for Sex Offender Registries

  The U.S. Department of Justice has submitted its proposed National Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification, as required by the Adam...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Missing Kids Cards Gone

  Don’t go searching for those "Have You Seen Me?" cards in your mail any more. ADCO, the direct mail company that sends...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Foster Teens Find Help in State Care

  Daytona Beach News-Journal Although they’ve often been removed from the places, friends, teachers and coping mechanisms that helped them weather abusive situations...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Me Lonely? Not Now, Thanks to the ‘Family Finding’ Search

  The San Francisco Chronicle A combination of high-tech Internet searches and old-fashioned detective work is helping 22 California counties locate the extended...

• News

  Time for Reform: Support Relatives in Providing Foster Care and Permanent Families for Children

  Kids Are Waiting Children in out-of-home placements with relatives tend to be as safe as, or safer than, children placed with unrelated...

• News

  Effect of Deployment on the Occurrence of Child Maltreatment in Military and Nonmilitary Families

  American Journal of Epidemiology A time-series analysis by researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle...

• News

  Additional Federal Action Could Help States Address Challenges in Providing Services to Children and Families

  U.S. Government Accountability Office Despite substantial federal and state investment, states have had difficulty ensuring the safety, well-being and permanency of children...

• ► Reports

  The NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development

  National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society The first findings from the NIH’s large MRI Study of Normal Brain...

• Research

  Depression and the Initiation of Alcohol and Other Drug Use among Youths Aged 12 to 17

  U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Available at http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/newUserDepression/newUserDepression.cfm. It’s one of the “chicken or egg” paradoxes of youth...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Lawsuit Closes Foster Care Program

  Catholic Charities says it is closing one of the largest foster care programs in Illinois because the program has become uninsurable as...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Half-a-Billion To Fight Obesity

    In what is billed as the largest financial commitment by any foundation to fight childhood obesity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Missing Kids’ Center Spreads to Texas

  Two Texas businesswomen, armed with $1 million in private backing, have persuaded the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Churches Comply with Abuse Guidelines

  Twenty-seven out of 29 Catholic dioceses and eparchies audited in 2006 are compliant with the “Charter for the Protection of Children and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Breaking the Cycle

  The Spokesman Review (Spokane, Wash.) Studies show that about one in four childhood victims of abuse are likely to abuse or neglect...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  My Job – Cristina Chapman

  Reaping what they sow: Chapman and boys on the Brooklyn farm. Farm EducatorAdded Value/Food ChangeBrooklyn, N.Y.(718) 855-5531Age: 27Salary: $40,000. About the Organizations:...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The Child Welfare/Juvenile Justice Link

  Your article in the April issue, “A Swift Kick in the Pants,” described chronic sexual molestation of boys in a Texas juvenile...

• News

  Assessing the Well-Being of Adolescents: Guides for Out-of School Time Program Practitioners

  Child Trends Three new Research-to-Results briefs from the nonprofit Child Trends offer research-based advice and assistance to after-school practitioners charged with looking...

• News

  School Engagement and Youth Who Run Away from Care: The Need for Cross-System Collaboration

  Chapin Hall Center for Children Chapin Hall researchers give voice to youth who have run away from their foster care placements and...