All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

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  Religious Service Attendance and Civic Engagement among 15- to 25-Year-Olds

  The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) Nearly four in 10 young people between ages 20 and...

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  Forgone Health Care among U.S. Adolescents: Associations between Risk Characteristics and Confidentiality Concern

  University of California, San Francisco/Journal of Adolescent Health Approximately one-quarter of middle and high school students say they can’t remember having had...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Kids Are Waiting

  The Kids Are Waiting campaign was set up with support by the Pew Charitable Trusts to promote the findings of The Pew...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Congress Urged to Boost Kinship Care

  Advocates of more federal support for kinship care took their case to Congress last month. Representatives from Generations United, the Pew Charitable...

• A ‘Very Nice Person’ Takes a Hot Seat

  JAMES-BROWN: Can “go by the rules when she needs to and think outside the box when she needs to.” When Chris James-Brown...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Working Together for the Sake of the Kids

  Chicago Tribune Child welfare experts say that over the past decade, child-welfare systems have shifted toward more collaborative relationships between birth and...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The Foster Care-Industrial Complex Makes Its Move

  Every ideology has its blind spots. For conservatives, it tends to be polluters, oil companies and the military-industrial complex. For my fellow...

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  Is Kinship Care Good for Kids?

  Center for Law and Social Policy More than 2.5 million children are being raised by relatives – mostly grandparents – because their...

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  Medicaid: Health Promotionand Disease Prevention for School Readiness

  The Commonwealth Fund Comprehensive well-child health services, such as those covered by Medicaid, play a critical role in preparing children for school...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Sleep Problems

  Northwest Media 45 minutes. $99. A course for parents of foster and adopted children on how to approach common sleep disorders in...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Teen Driving Info

  http://www.teendrivinginfo.com For use by researchers, educators, policy advocates, parents and teens, this site offers links to books and resources about teen driving,...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  No Smoking for Texas Foster Parents

  Texas has joined states such as Vermont and Washington in prohibiting foster parents from smoking in their homes if they have foster...

• Passports to Health for Foster Kids

  KEEPING TRACK: A sample of records being compiled by the Westchester Institute for Human Development. At the Westchester Institute for Human Development...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Schools Endeavor to Fight Against Bullying

  Newsday Despite at least five years of efforts by schools across the nation to educate youths about the negative consequences of bullying,...

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  Program Brings Parents Together

  Albuquerque Journal New Mexico’s innovative Ice Breakers program is bringing together mothers who have lost custody of their children and the foster...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Hub Teens Sweat Bullets as 1 Dies a Month

  The Boston Herald Since 2004, teens in the Hub neighborhood of Boston have been murdered at the rate of 18 a year...

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  Standards of Practice for Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse and Neglect Cases

  ABA Center on Children and the Law A committee of practicing attorneys and child welfare professionals from jurisdictions throughout the country compiled...

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  Children’s Health Insurance: State Experiences in Implementing SCHIP and Considerations for Reauthorization

  U.S. Government Accountability Office This report examines the allocation of funds in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), focusing on spending...

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  Preventing Teen Motor Crashes: Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Workshop Report

  The National Academies This report summarizes presentations and discussions from a workshop where participants from various disciplines gathered to explore how the...

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  Offending During Late Adolescence: How Do Youth Aging Out of Care Compare with Their Peers?

  Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago Using a sample of young adults aging out of foster care and a nationally...