Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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3.7K► Podcasts‘Home was never a place’: One woman’s life in WA foster care
Janell Braxton, 30, continues to reckon with her time in the foster system.
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2.3KNewsPoor, rural kids earn more than urban, poor kids later in life. A higher incidence of two-parent households might be the reason
No other variable has as much power over mobility as the two-parent household effect.
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2.3KNewsDaycare owners and parents say they are at a breaking point as federal relief funds end
Losing federal funds could force more than 70,000 licensed childcare facilities to close.
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2.9KNewsMinnesota expands public funding for childcare
In Minnesota, parents paid childcare costs among the most expensive in the country.
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2.1K► ReportsKeeping children at home with supportive housing
A new study shows how supportive housing can help keep families intact.
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4.1KNewsKids face the greatest risk of eviction of any age group. The consequences can last a lifetime.
A recent study found 2.9 million children are impacted by eviction filings every year.
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4.1KNewsMississippi program shows how giving mothers guaranteed income helps children
Report reveals benefits as pilot programs spread across country.
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1.8KNews‘Broken system’: Call center backlogs impede Missouri families seeking food assistance
Unable to set interview appointments, SNAP applications/renewals are automatically denied after 30 days.
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2.7KNewsPost-COVID summer programs didn’t boost kids academically, but may have helped anyway
Many summer programs focused on social emotional learning.
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3.1K► PodcastsWashington’s new youth homelessness ‘Lifeline’ service lags
Washington’s new youth homelessness ‘Lifeline’ service lags.
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2.9KNewsNearly two-thirds of US schools now offer students and families help with hunger, housing and healthcare
Sixty percent of public schools reported using a community school or wraparound services model.
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5.2KNewsCalifornia’s Wiyot Tribe gets land back and builds foster youth housing
As homelessness rises, the Wiyot are ensuring youth have "a place to call home."
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9.0KNewsHome-based childcare is a dying business. Here’s why.
Nearly half of all licensed home childcares closed between 2005 and 2017.
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2.4KNewsChild poverty rate rebounds after pandemic-era child tax credit ends
American Rescue Plan Act programs expired and the child poverty rate increased to 10%.
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6.4KNewsUtah “troubled teen” treatment facility shuttered in the wake of death
The state-mandated closure is the first on record for Utah’s “troubled teen industry”
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3.4KNewsCan affordable housing make the “low-pay, low-opportunity” afterschool field fairer for workers?
“Workers in these spaces are undervalued,” said University of Minnesota professor Dale Blyth.
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3.4KNewsCalifornia Office of Youth and Community Restoration Director Katherine Lucero: There’s ‘room for improvement’
"Our office has no actual authority over the facilities."
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2.2KNewsWashington homelessness group exposed sensitive data on kids, young adults
Health and safety information on hundreds of young clients was made public.
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4.4KNewsHow a partisan budget battle worsened Illinois’ foster care crisis
Illinois foster kids are staying in social workers' offices, conference centers and jails.
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1.9KNewsFamilies worry over the future of Medicaid caregiver payments that were expanded during the pandemic
Some states have already stopped payments while others have yet to make them permanent.
