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All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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3.2KGuest Opinion EssayFirst-generation College Students from Poverty Have Many Hurdles
I have helped many young people with financial support for college, both personally and through my company. This year I am funding...
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Reducing Teen Substance Misuse: What Really Works
This new report from Trust for America's Health uses comprehensive national data to rank all 50 states on how how effective they...
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1.4KNewsVideo: Aging Out, Stepping Up
Senior counselor James Milan, Claremont Neighborhood Center, Bronx, N.Y.
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1.6KNewsAging Out, Stepping Up
James Milan entered foster care at age 4. “My childhood wasn’t the greatest,” he says wryly. “I was trying to figure out...
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Grants
Grants for Youth-Led Community Service Projects Addressing Childhood Hunger
Subject: Child Welfare, Health, Access to Food, Food/Nutrition, Youth Development, Community Development | Deadline: Jan 15, 2016
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Grants
Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Grants
Subject: Child Welfare, Health, Healthcare, Childhood Obesity | Deadline: Jan. 29, 2016
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Grants
Child Welfare, Family Support, Housing, and Environmental Program Grants
Subject: Child Welfare, Family Support, Housing, Environment | Deadline: Ongoing
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayTrauma-informed Groups Serve Clients Better
We’re entering a remarkable age of a new understanding about why we behave the way we do and how to change those...
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1.6KNewsConnect the Dots Between Past and Present
CHRIS Kids uses a trauma-informed approach with young people and their families — in its counseling center and in its training center...
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1.6KGuest Opinion EssayThe Race Our School and Students Didn’t Win: Aging-out of Adolescence
The year before we opened our charter school in St. Louis, another one had closed. It was a school for dropouts, ages...
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2.5KNewsNew Toolkit Issued to Help Providers Measure Trauma With ACES Survey
A new toolkit is out that aims to help services providers give a survey about traumatic childhood experiences that are linked to...
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Grants
Childhood Hunger Community Grants
Subject: Child Welfare, Health, Nutrition | Deadline: Ongoing.
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4.8KFrom the FieldUniting Sport and Therapy on One Field
Children who participate in Doc Wayne’s Chalk Talk program are most often survivors of complex trauma. According to the National Alliance on...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayUse Student-First Language to Stop Bullying Behavior
October was bullying prevention month and there were programs all over the country to highlight bullying as an ongoing issue in schools.
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayThe Test of Time: Finding a Way to Stay Clean for My Daughter
We just got back from feeding Harlow at the hospital, and we were hanging out in the motor home. I was getting...
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1.5KNewsLights On Afterschool Celebrates Fun While Highlighting Growing Demand
On Thursday, kids enrolled in after-school programs through a Washington, District of Columbia, parks and recreation department were exposed to pink slime...
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3.2KGuest Opinion EssayWhat Does Hair Have to Do With Reading and Writing?
We need to use youth’s culture as the central focus in planning after-school programs. This might include incorporating African-American youth’s linguistic resource,...
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3.0KNewsSchools Stand Up Against Bullying on Unity Day
This morning at Rockford Elementary Arts Magnet School in Rockford, Minnesota, teachers wearing orange T-shirts that read “Rockford Unites Against Bullying” welcomed...
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1.7KNewsLights On Afterschool Celebrations Recognize Programs Big and Small
The 16th annual Lights On Afterschool event is a chance for programs to show off all they’ve accomplished, through science shows, dance...
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1.5KNewsTwo Fields Come Together in New Center for After-school and Summer Enrichment
The new National Center for Afterschool and Summer Enrichment will work to increase low-income kids' access to quality after-school and summer programs....
