All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward

Top Headlines 7/29

Juvenile Justice Ga. DJJ introduces reintegration programs. Head injuries and juvenile justice. Education Federal cutbacks lead to less monitoring of special ed...

Top Headlines 7/26

Child Welfare Don’t economize childcare. Florida child welfare agency told to “refocus” following deaths. Juvenile Justice Despite misgivings, Scared Straight continues. Education...

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013

AMERICA’S CHILDREN: Well-Being Report Finds Youth Achievement Contingent on Race, Economics

From The Chicago Bureau Numbering 73.7 million last year, children accounted for nearly 24 percent of the nation’s population. In 2011, 22...

Top Headlines 7/23

Juvenile Justice Head of Florida’s juvenile justice system meets with capitol protesters. All but one of the suspended Georgia DJJ investigators is...

House Bill Would Cut After School Program Funding, Create Block Grant

Late last week, the House of Representatives passed the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education...

Indian School in Wyoming Cuts Jobs and Salaries During Sequester

This story is republished from Wyofile    Two things were in short supply at St. Stephens Indian School on Wyoming’s Wind River...

Top Headlines 7/17

Juvenile Justice Miami pet therapy program for juvenile offenders first in Florida. Education U.S. Department of Education investigates Swathmore’s handling of sexual...

Researchers Question Link Between Early Puberty and Adolescent Behavioral Problems

Australian researchers have published findings that dispute previous studies linking early puberty with greater likelihoods of young people developing mental health issues....

Early Puberty and Childhood Social and Behavioral Adjustment

Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth on the Internet

Decreasing High School Dropout Rates Could Save Billions in Medicaid Expenses

The United States could save billions in annual Medicaid costs simply by cutting the nation’s total number of high school dropouts in...

Well and Well-Off: Decreasing Medicaid and Health-Care Costs by Increasing Educational Attainment

-Full report- Author(s):  Alliance for Excellent Education Bill DeBaun Martens Roc Dr. Peter Muennig – Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health...

Top Headlines 7/16/2013

Juvenile Justice ACLU and other groups push for limits on juvenile solitary confinement in New Jersey.  Education Education policy group criticizes pre-Common...

Better Together: Building Local Systems to Improve Afterschool

In the Wake of Zimmerman Verdict, Voices of Anger, Anguish and Resignation

WITH REPORTING BY SARAH AMANDOLARE, LINDSAY ARMSTRONG, CRAIG GIAMMONA, DARYL KHAN, AND CHRISTINE STRIECH NEW YORK–Trayvon Martin wasn’t from any of New...

Effects of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Adolescent Marijuana Use

Firearm Possession Among Adolescents Presenting to an Urban Emergency Department for Assault

Top Headlines 7/12

Juvenile Justice Statewide coalition urges New York to raise the age of criminal responsibility. Texas legislature approves 40 year minimum sentences for...