Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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712NewsFood for thought: Free meals for all New Mexico students
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation to provide free school meals to all students.
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1.2KNewsKids taken from Black family remain in state custody
Five children were taken after a routine traffic stop led to drug charges.
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1.3KNewsHere’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities
The tool's widely-used algorithm may discriminate against people with disabilities or other protected groups.
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1.3KNews‘It’s hard to focus’: Schools say American kids are hungry
Children in food-insecure households are more likely to struggle academically and repeat grade levels.
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2.8KNewsAn accidental experiment during COVID suggests too many children are removed to foster care
Experts warned child abuse would rise during COVID. These researchers found otherwise.
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10.2KNewsMurdered on the job: A year after a child welfare investigator was killed, little has changed
The day Deidre Silas was murdered, the social worker went alone on a house call.
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1.4KNewsPolice: 9 children shot at Georgia gas station
Nine youths - including a 5-year-old child - were wounded after shots rang out.
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1.3KNewsEx-state adviser implicated in youth center abuse lawsuits
David Ball is among roughly 150 former staffers who are implicated by former residents.
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1.7KNewsCan Cleveland reduce the harm eviction does to Black families?
Evictions can have far-reaching consequences beyond a miserable day with a housing magistrate.
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1.6KNewsUnmet needs: Critics cite failures in health care for vulnerable foster children
For states using specialty-managed care for foster kids, transparency and oversight remain spotty.
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1.8KNewsGrandfamilies disproportionately at-risk for food insecurity, advocates say
One in four grandparent-headed households said they have trouble providing food for their families.
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1.1KNewsChild welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny
The AI tool of a Pittsburgh-area agency is the subject of civil rights complaints.
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1.0KNewsLawsuit: Illinois agency wrongfully imprisoned children
The children have missed holidays, birthdays and funerals of loved ones.
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1.2KNewsArizona dad seeking answers after son dies in state care
"They couldn't keep him alive for two weeks, two weeks," the father said.
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3.9KNewsFor foster youth, new restrictions make abortion access even more difficult
And less than a third of teens in foster care receive birth control information.
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1.6KNewsQ&A: Reporter Roxanna Asgarian’s upcoming book dives deep into the murder-suicide that killed six adopted Black children
There's a larger story behind the Hart murder-suicide, Asgarian says.
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2.5KNewsQ&A: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s JooYeun Chang wants to give the child welfare system a ‘helping hand’
Chang aims to use fund organizations that are transforming the system "upstream."
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2.0KFrom the Bureaus‘You’re not alone’: How a California school district created a community for children in foster care
“The program is looking to close the achievement gaps for kids in foster care,” said Jenna Mendez, Corona-Norco Unified School District's foster...
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4.4K► ReportsNumber of children separated from their families due to parental substance use has more than doubled
The number of children separated from their families due to parental substance use has more than doubled in the past two decades...
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3.3KNews‘Every day was a bad day’: Children working in agriculture aren’t protected equally
Children as young as 12 can be hired on large farms for jobs like picking tobacco, with no limits on the hours...
