All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

• News

  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...

• News

  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...

• News

  Survey Identifies Teen Online Behaviors Associated With Online Interpersonal Victimization

  Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Using data from a 2005 telephone survey of nearly 1,500 American youth ages 10 to 17...

• Research

  Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2005

  Pediatrics, Vol. 119 No. 2, February 2007, pgs. 345-360 Abstract available at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/119/2/345 A small media frenzy erupted last month over the...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Breaking the Silence: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Foster Youth Tell Their Stories

  National Center for Lesbian Rights, Free. “I won’t sit in the dark and be a hanger. The only things in the closet...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  How to Feed a Teenage Boy

  Georgia OrcuttTen Speed Press240 pages. $14.95. A nutrition guide and recipe book for parents and youth workers looking for healthy meal options...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Staff Selection: Choose with Care

  Meredith KiralyHaworth Press163 pages. $24.95. A hiring guide for providers of residential care. The first of the book’s two sections gives a...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Teen Obesity: How Schools Can be the Number One

  Solution to the ProblemWilliam L. FibkinsRowman and Littlefield Education219 pages. $24.95. An action plan for parents, school leaders and community activists to...

• Grants

  Grants Awarded for December 2006 – January 2007

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services200 Independence Avenue, S.W.Washington, D.C. 20201(202) 619-0257www.hhs.govSee: Compassion Capitol Fund FY 2006 (pdf) U.S. Substance...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Weight is the Least of It

  When it comes to youth wellness, we’ve been having the wrong conversation. In a culture increasingly plagued by obesity, we’ve been obsessed...

• News

  Report Roundup for December 2006 – January 2007

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Research

  Research of Note for December 2006 – January 2007

  Child Welfare: Improving Social Service Program, Training and Technical Assistance Information Would Help Address Long-standing Service-Level and Workforce ChallengesU.S. Government Accountability Office...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Getting It Together for Abused Kids

  The number of child advocacy centers (CACs) in the United States today is 12 times as high as it was 12 years...

• News

  Report Roundup for November 2006

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Research

  Research of Note for November 2006

  Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents The Brennan Center for Justice at New...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The Ugly Euginics of ‘Teen Pregnancy Prevention’

  Gary Yates, president of The California Wellness Foundation, recently mischaracterized teen pregnancy, invoked destructive stereotypes that brand poorer mothers’ babies as “social...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  The Rising Voices of Foster Parents

  When Daniele and Steve Baxter took over the Foster Parent Association of Washington State in 2004, the organization was in a tight...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Health Care on Wheels

  While youth advocates have successfully lobbied in recent years for programs to expand health insurance coverage for poor children, insurance is not...

• New Sex Offender Law: Watch the Details

  The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, signed by President Bush in July, was widely hailed as one of the most...

• News

  Devastated Agency Strains To Shift Toward Preservation

  For decades, Marketa Gautreau railed against the quality of service provided to Louisiana’s abused and neglected children as CEO of Prevent Child...