Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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Report Roundup for September 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Winning Over the Neighbors
In a downtrodden neighborhood in Tucson, Ariz., La Paloma Family Services faced a struggle typical to group homes around the country: The...
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Report Roundup for July-August 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Child Welfare’s Death Penalty
It’s the ultimate nightmare for child welfare administrators: Tied to a bedpost and weighing just 47 pounds, a 9-year-old Baltimore County, Md.,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Another DeLay Casualty
The precipitous collapse of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s political career is reverberating in national child welfare policy circles. The Hammer,...
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Report Roundup for June 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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The Pitch for High Fidelity
Denver, Colo. — When Robert Barnoski saw the first outcome data from his evaluation of Functional Family Therapy in early 2002, he...
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An Experiment to Keep Kids Home
Florida is about to launch the first statewide test of a flexible system of foster care spending that the Bush administration would...
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As Drug Use Drops, Drug Deaths Rise
For decades, the government and news media have trumpeted drug use surveys as the jumping-off point for how well the nation is...
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Report Roundup for May 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Guest Opinion Essay
Drive-By Journalism
To grasp the appalling meanness of the American Automobile Association’s latest media attack on teenagers, consider the tragedy of Travis Bosse. He...
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Report Roundup for April 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Guest Opinion Essay
What Part of Mediocre Don’t We Get?
We hear it all the time. We hear it from the podium and the pulpit, from policymakers and pundits: Children are...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Lessons from a Letdown
When youth-serving programs and their funders make their evaluations transparent, the entire field benefits from the lessons learned – even when...
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CWLA Chief Seeks a New Placement
Taking over the Child Welfare League of America after David Liederman retired in 1999 was never going to be easy. The...
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Passport to Adulthood
Katrina Lawson was hardly a good candidate for homeownership, what with a tangled credit history and a landlord fining her for...
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Report Roundup for March 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Hunting for Grandma
Campbell, Calif. — Like many children in foster care, the one on Kevin Campbell’s mind this morning has no known relatives. But...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Faithful Partnerships
While the idea of churches working with secular organizations to provide social services often sparks public debate, the truth is that nonprofits...
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Guest Opinion Essay
MySpace.com Menaces Teens? C’mon!
Many parents think their children are safe in one of our most hallowed institutions, until they discover its dark side: violence, sexual...
