All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

Low-Income Families and the Cost of Child Care: State Child Care Subsidies, Out-of-Pocket Expenses and the Cliff Effect

Top Headlines 01/16

Juvenile Justice Troubled Georgia YDC loses fifth director in two years. Education Education reform group gives Iowa an F on education policy....

Top Headlines 01/15

Juvenile Justice Give juvenile offenders a second chance. Education Utah group seeks more representation for voters in education issues. Georgia schools doing...

In This Together: The Hidden Cost of Young Adult Unemployment

Top Headlines 01/14

More Kids Lived with Long-Term Unemployed Parent in ’13 than Pre-Recession

Graphic from a 2013 Urban Institute report on children of unemployed parents. More children were living with at least one long-term unemployed parent during...

What to do if you think a child is considering suicide

Dr. Matthew Wintersteen, director of research at the Thomas Jefferson University Medical College’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, spent five years...

Top Headlines 01/13

Juvenile Justice New novel features restorative justice. Cuomo calls for change to New York’s juvenile justice laws. Education Alaska legislative listening session...

Eating Disorders: More Than Meets The Eye

The last time I went to rehab, I had no hope,” admits 24-year-old Kaylee Vanderhoof, regrettably. “I did not care if I...

Top Stories 01/10

Juvenile Justice Missouri part of national trend in juvenile justice reform. Illinois takes “huge step” in reforming juvenile policies. Education Georgia receives...

Getting at the Roots of Trauma

  When violence and mental illness stem from adverse childhood experiences. Eddie Bocanegra grew up in Chicago’s mostly Mexican-American Pilsen neighborhood in...

Top Headlines 01/09

Juvenile Justice Schools sending too many kids to court. Report excoriates Indian Country juvenile justice system. Education Conservative Texas education reform group...

Top Headlines 01/08

Juvenile Justice Victim’s family calls for 11-year-old suspect in attempted murder remain in jail. Education South Carolina governor’s race will focus on...

Top Headlines 01/07

Juvenile Justice Steubenville rapist released after less than one year. The push for reform in the U.S. Education Iowa conservatives suspicious of...

Top Headlines 1/06

Juvenile Justice Applying juvenile reforms that work to adult detention. Georgia juvenile corrections officers have 57 percent annual turnover rate. Education Kentucky...

Pediatricians Call for Limit on Kids’ Media Time

Cole Chanin-Hassman, 10, looks at a computer game called Minecraft on his laptop. Like many other kids his age, the Los Angeles fourth-grader counts among...

State Program Gets Mental Health Services to Kids Who Need it Most

From the The Indianapolis Star More than 100 Indiana children are receiving intensive mental health services under a new state program designed to...

Foster Care Population Drops Sharply in California

  Chart showing the decline in foster care populations in California. Via Kids Data From the San Francisco Chronicle (MCT) — California has seen...

The Comeback and Coming-from-Behind States: An Update on Youth Incarceration in the United States