All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

California Non-Profit Treats Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue

The California Wellness Foundation has spent decades treating gun violence against youth as a public health issue. In doing so, the Foundation...

When Terrible Things Happen: Helping Children Heal

This story was first published by CNN.  Editor’s note: Former CNN correspondent Pat Etheridge is a journalist specializing in children’s health and family...

Experts Address Importance of Depression Screening and Treatment for Low-Income Mothers

The Urban Institute held an event Dec. 13 in Washington, D.C. titled “Helping Depressed Low-Income Mothers Give Their Young Children a Good...

After Newtown Shooting, Answers May Be Found in Decade-old Government Report

The details of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are slowly coming to light, but a government document issued a decade ago...

Day Before Connecticut Massacre, Michigan Legislators OK Bill Allowing Guns in Schools, Daycare Centers

Efficacy of Schoolwide Programs to Promote Social and Character Development and Reduce Problem Behavior in Elementary School Children

Officials Release New Details in Elementary School Massacre

On Saturday, Newtown, Conn. officials released the names of the 20 children and six adults slain in last Friday’s shooting spree at...

Remembering Elementary School Shootings of the Past

The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre Nov. 14 constitutes the second deadliest mass school shooting incident in American history, second only to...

Sex Ed: A Complicated Equation For CPS

Story courtesy of The Chicago Bureau.  CHICAGO — Every fall, when Jeff Frecka teaches health to his class of ninth graders, he knows...

Childhood Trauma Threatens National Well-Being: DOJ Task Force

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two out of three children in the United States experience or witness violence, crime or abuse while growing up,...

UPDATE: More than Two Dozen Killed, Among Them 20 Children, in One of Nation’s Worst School Shooting Massacres

In one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history, 27 people – among them, 20 children – are reported dead...

Subcommittee Schedules Hearing on Prevention of Child Maltreatment Deaths

Wednesday, the House Committee on Ways and Means’ Subcommittee on Human Resources will hold a hearing in Washington, D.C. regarding plans to...

Exposure to Violence Impacts Mother and Child in Complex Ways

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The well-being of children is intricately connected to the well-being of their mothers, starting from the multiplying cells of...

Teens in Abusive Relationships Likelier to Engage in “Anti-Social” Behaviors as Adults, Says New Report

A new study published in Pediatrics indicates that approximately 30 percent of the nation’s teens have been involved in an aggressive relationship,...

CDC Says Young People Accounted for One-in-Four New HIV Infections in 2010

New Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data indicates that an estimated 12,000 young people became infected with HIV in 2010, with young...

HEROIN

An old drug is making a new comeback, and the home medicine cabinet often is the gateway.  Heroin, a pop culture star...

Excerpt: Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Excerpted from FAR FROM THE TREE: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. Copyright © 2012 by Andrew Solomon.  Excerpted with permission...

Autism Subcommittee Making Final Edits for Strategic Plan

Tuesday, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee’s (IACC) Subcommittee for Services Research and Policy held a teleconference to address several alterations to the...

Google Users to Receive AMBER Alerts

Users of Google Maps and Google Search can now see government alerts on their mobile phones or computers when a child goes...

Legislation Needed to Deter Young People From Using Hookah, Says CDC

A recent report in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) journal Preventing Chronic Disease finds that almost one-fifth of the nation’s 12th-graders...