All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

• News

  YAPing it Up

  Lebanon, Pa. Alan McLoughlin spends much of his week laboring in his family’s construction business, doing what’s commonly considered tiring work. He...

• News

  Report Roundup of November 2005

  Child Welfare Protecting Children in Foster Care: Why Proposed Medicaid Cuts Harm Our Nation’s Most Vulnerable ChildrenCasey Family Programs At least $10...

• Research

  Research of Note of November 2005

  Foster Children May Be Paying A Price For Attorneys’ Overwhelming Student Loan DebtChildren’s Law Center of Los Angeles (CLC) and the Pew...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Make ’em Sweat

  When it comes to the kinds of activities to provide for kids, after-school programs have been getting two loud and competing messages....

• News

  The Meth Epidemic: Hype vs. Reality

  To even the most casual observer, the news media this summer gave the impression that a methamphetamine epidemic has created a child...

• News

  Report Roundup from October 2005

  Education2005 ACT ScoresAmerican College Testing Program Hundreds of thousands of 2005 high school graduates will begin college or work academically unprepared and...

• Research

  Research of Note from October 2005

  Declines in Youth Drug Use Don’t Tell the Full Story The 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and HealthU.S. Substance Abuse and...

• News

  New Homes for Foster Care’s Old Folks

  After a day of hustling between college classes and two jobs, 19-year-old Sean Dachtler is ready to fall into bed in his...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Covenant House: Nihil Obstat

  No youth-serving agency in living memory has had such spectacular financial success or suffered as spectacular a scandal as New York-based Covenant...

• Research

  Research of Note of July 2005

  Firearm Violence Exposure and Serious Violent Behavior University of Michigan/Science magazineAbstract available free at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/308/5726/1239a, or contact American Association for the Advancement...

• News

  Outreach Worker’s Fire Sets Off Alarms

  The city’s most famous homeless youth advocate and onetime accused killer sits in Denny’s, although sitting doesn’t really describe the behavior of...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Renaissance Scholars Program

    Santa Cruz, Calif. (831) 459-2424renaissance_scholars@ucsc.edu Objective: Help foster youth get into college and stay there. In a Nutshell: Provides youth from high...

• News

  Report Roundup for June 2005

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Getting Businesses to Sign On

  Thirty-one years ago, Larry Woolridge figured that one way to funnel troubled Louisville youth to local shelters is to bring the shelters...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Abysmal State of Foster Care Alumni

  Foster children are so handicapped by their experiences in the child welfare system that four out of five fail to thrive as...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Shelter Care vs. Foster Family Care

  Youth Today recently drew attention to an important issue: the debate about what type of emergency care – shelter or family foster...

• News

  Child Welfare’s Harsh Test

  When the federal government introduced a bold system five years ago to evaluate state child welfare systems, it drew cheers from case...

• News

  Report Roundup for May 2005

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Always Right – Children’s Rights Writes Secret Study

  This is an emergency! Call the ACLU. The First Amendment is under attack by Children’s Rights, Inc., the litigious group run by...

• News

  Report Roundup for April 2005

  Child Welfare Substance Use and Need for Treatment among Youths Who Have Been in Foster Care U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health...