Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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2001 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being
By Amy Bracken In some regards, teens are doing better in almost all of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....
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Prospecting Among the Poor: Welfare Privatization
By Bill Berkowitz Applied Research Center The California-based Applied Research Center has been one of the most aggressive opponents of welfare reform, saying...
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State of the Air 2001
American Lung Association This report gives a failing grade in air quality to communities that are home to 30 million children...
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News
When Mom or Dad is Locked Up
By Amy Bracken Jessup, Md.—Lowell Gibson lives 15 miles from her nine-year-old son but hasn’t seen him in three years. When...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
National Nonprofits
Grace Reef, for the past four years director of intergovernmental relations at the Children’s Defense Fund, is moving to Capitol Hill. She’ll...
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Untapped Potential: State Earned Income Credits and Child Poverty Reduction
By Amy Bracken This research brief says the federal Earned Income Credit (EIC) lifts 2.5 million children out of poverty, and...
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Research
Research Watch AIDS and Young Women
AIDS is a growing threat to women, including teenage girls. A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Missing Kids, Lost Caucus
One of the more active youth-related caucuses is the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus. A bipartisan group listing nearly 150 members on...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Leave No Child (or Family) Behind
Advocates for broader supports for children, youth and families have a common focal point: President George Bush’s tax cut proposal. Hailed by...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Does Welfare Reform Hurt Teens?
While researchers unveiled more evidence last month that welfare reform helps poor parents and children in many ways, a dark cloud stands...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
STDs Discriminate
New findings dramatically demonstrate how the spread of sexually transmitted diseases differs by age, gender, race and geography. The U.S. Centers for...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Briefly…
Record-Setting Child Support – Before leaving town in January, outgoing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced that...
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Bad Form on Welfare Reform
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you – and flies you, and puts you up in a nice hotel. When members...
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Crossroads: New Directions in Social Policy American Public Human Services Association
“The Bush administration and the 107th Congress are presented with a compelling opportunity,” this report begins, “to eliminate outmoded federal rules and...
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, State and Community Substudy
This report, prepared by Abt Associates for HHS, finds that because of the strong economy, more parents working and more left-over TANF...
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Research
Foster Care and Mental Health Mental Health Care Utilization and Expenditures by Children in Foster Care
Jeffrey Harman, Ph.D., George Childs, Kelly Kelleher, M.D., M.P.H. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, November 2000, Vol. 154 Free copy from...
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Research
Linking Spouse and Child Abuse
Emiko Tajima, Ph.D. Child Abuse & Neglect, November 2000, Vol. 24, pp. 1383-98 Free copy from Dr. Tajima at University of Washington...
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Research
Girls and Sports Medical Concerns in the Female Athlete American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness Pediatrics
September 2000, Vol. 106, pp. 610-613 Summary version at www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/septath.htm With all the concern about couch potatoes, let’s start by emphasizing that...
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Snapshots of America’s Families II
The Urban Institute Between 1997 and 1999, the proportion of U.S. children with highly aggravated (“frustrated and stressed”) parents increased, says the...
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Research
Wake Up and Read This
Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Research Council Mary G. Graham, Editor National Academy Press, 2000 Available free...
