All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

Lawyers: Don’t Forget Your Story-Telling

CHICAGO — Whether it’s a tool in your toolkit or an arrow in your quiver, story-telling will win motions, cases and verdicts...

CLASP Webinar Explores Alternative Federal Funding Streams for Early Education and Child Care

On Sept 6, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) will hold a Webinar focusing on the organization’s newly released publication,...

Federal Government to Allow More Flexible Child Welfare Spending

The strings tying millions of federal dollars to foster care will be loosed in the coming months, allowing up to 10 states...

YouthBuild Programs Receive $75M in Federal Grants

Nearly 5,000 at-risk young people across 28 states and the District of Columbia are expected to complete their high school education while...

What About the Girls?

Juvenile crime has been declining for years and is now at historic lows. That’s the good news. The bad news is that girls are...

Interagency Meeting Addresses Psychotropic Medication Use in Nation’s Foster Care System

Earlier this week, more than 300 representatives from 49 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, convened for a two-day meeting...

Teen Marijuana Use Linked With Lower Adult IQ Scores

A recent report coming out of New Zealand suggests that individuals that were heavy marijuana users as adolescents had “consistently lower IQs”...

Researchers Examine Links Between Binge Drinking and Social Stature

  New research suggests that U.S. college students who participate in binge drinking may actually be happier than those who do not...

Washington’s Struggles to Treat Mentally Ill Youth Reflective of a National Dilemma

Reports show many youth in Washington D.C. under the Medicaid umbrella are being left behind as their mental health disorders go untreated,...

“GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens” and “Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens”

GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Les­bian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens: Revised and updated 2nd edition Kelly Huegel Free Spirit Publishing...

Privatization Fails: Nebraska Tries Again to Reform Child Welfare

LINCOLN, Neb. – Foster parent Jenae VanEvery got a call around midnight one day in September 2011 asking if she could take...

CDC – National Health Statistics Report

Exhibit Examines the Lives of Former Foster Children

Richard Wilkerson needs two hands to count the number of families he had as a boy. On a recent, unusually temperate summer...

Juvenile Justice Trends in State Legislation, 2001-2011

Illinois Enacts Law Against ‘Epidemic’ of Human Trafficking

Illinois strengthened its legal arsenal against human trafficking this weekend when Gov. Pat Quinn signed House Bill 5278 into law. The new legislation aims to provide...

America’s Children in Brief 2012: Key National Indicators of Well-Being

Federal Report Finds Health Conditions Mixed for Nation’s Youth

Recently, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics released the 2012 edition of its annual America’s Children in Brief: Key National...

Immigration Policy Center – Who and Where the DREAMers Are

More than a Million Youths May Benefit from Obama’s New ‘Deferred Action’ Plan

According to a new report released by the Immigration Policy Center, as many as 1.4 million immigrants currently living in the United...

American Indian Youth Seek Kinship at Intertribal Summit

CHEVY CHASE, Md. – Chloe Gardner, 14, Alyssa Ludvick, 15, and Alaina Kuchenoff, 16, left their remote Alaskan island early Thursday afternoon to...