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All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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1.5KGrantsChild Abuse Victims Advocacy Center Support Program Grants
Subject: Children's Advocacy, Child Welfare, Child Abuse, Victim Support | Deadline: May 14, 2018 | Amount: $1,000,000 - $10,000,000
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12.0KGuest Opinion EssayPittsburgh Misuses Big Data to Target Poor Children for Abuse Investigations
One massive leak of middle-class Americans’ data seems to have the whole world in an uproar. A firm known as Cambridge Analytica...
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9.0KBook Reviews‘Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth’
“Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth” sheds a critical light on the winding journeys into adulthood of 25...
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1.7KGrantsTraining Grants to Improve Judicial System’s Handling of Child Maltreatment Cases
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Justice System, Child Victims | Deadline: May 3, 2018 | Amount: Up to $2,000,000
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2.0KGrantsCommunity Crime Reduction Program Grants
Subject: Community Development, Safety, Gangs, Violence, Youth Crime, Child/Youth Welfare | Deadline: Apr. 29, 2018 | Amount: Up to $1,000,000
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3.9KGuest Opinion EssayHow Closing My Competency-based School Led to Learning What Works
I closed the doors to Missouri’s first competency-based high school after just three years. Our school, based in St. Louis and on...
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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayWe Child Welfare Professionals Must Expand Our Objectives to Education
What is our job as child welfare professionals? What should our priorities be? How should we measure success? The answers to these...
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1.6KGrantsKansas Community Dental Health Clinic Program Grants
Subject: Health, Healthcare, Community Development, Child/Youth Welfare | Deadline: Apr. 9, 2018 | Amount: Unspecified
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2.0KGrantsChild and Maternal Health Nutrition Program Grants
Subject: Health, Maternal Health, Child Welfare | Deadline: May 7, 2018 | Amount: Unspecified
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4.5KGuest Opinion EssayWhat Los Angeles Child Welfare Leader Bobby Cagle Could Learn from Mick Jagger
One of the problems with the whole child welfare debate is that we all say pretty much the same things — but...
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3.7K► ReportsOur Children’s Fear: Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children
The Center for Law and Social Policy documents mental and physical harm that our nation's youngest children are experiencing due to the...
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1.6KGrantsMinnesota Early Childhood Care and Education Program Grants
Subject: Child Welfare, Health, Education | Deadline: Apr. 10, 2018 | Up to $100,000 per year for one- or two-year grants.
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1.9KGrantsSchool Safety Research Grants
Subject: School Safety, Safety, Child/Youth Welfare, Education, Research | Deadline: May 7, 2018 | Amount: Up to $50,000,000
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19.8KFrom the FieldHow We Found More Black Foster Parents and Confronted the Racial Disparity in Foster Care
I’ve worked in child welfare for over eight years and, from day one, I’ve been struck by the high numbers of black...
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1.7KGrantsEmotionally Disturbed Youth Family Support Program Grants
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Mental Health, Family Support | Deadline: Apr. 16, 2018 | Amount: Up to $95,000
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2.3KGrantsChild/Youth Grief Counseling and Bereavement Services Support Grants
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Health, Mental Health, Child/Youth Bereavement | Deadline: Ongoing | Amount: Unspecified
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5.5KGuest Opinion EssayA Plan for Real Reform of Child Welfare Finance – From an Unlikely Source
The so-called Family First Prevention Services Act has been hailed as a radical change in how child welfare is paid for by...
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7.7KGuest Opinion EssayUse People First Language to Discourage Deficit Thinking About Our Youth
When I was in graduate school at Brooklyn College back in the late 1990s, I took a class in special education where...
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3.8KNewsChild Care Gains Funds in Congress Budget Deal; Outlook Good for After-school Programs
Children and youth could see some gains under a bill that passed Congress early this morning, funding the government through March 23....
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2.2K► ReportsChild Maltreatment 2016
The Administration for Children and Families' Children's Bureau produced this report using data from 2016 to present and summarize the child abuse...
