All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

Citizen Advisers for State Juvenile Justice Programs Gather in DC

WASHINGTON – A mix of around 250 child welfare workers, law enforcement officials, public officials and nonprofit employees from 49 states and territories,...

Researchers Say Graduated Drivers Licenses May Keep Teens From Drinking and Driving

The report, conducted by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, evaluated teen driving laws in 45 states....

Focus on the Infant while Understanding Teenage Parents

If you’ve worked with, defended, advocated for or made decisions about at-risk youth, you’ve surely run into the difficult problem of teenagers...

Sandusky’s Lessons: Six Keys to Creating an Effective Child Protection Policy

The Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case has shone a harsh light on the limitations of the child protection policies put in place...

Growing up LGBT in America: Youth Survey Report

Boy Scout ‘Perversion Files’ ordered Released by Oregon High Court

Some 20,000 pages of so-called perversion files compiled by the Boy Scouts of America and going back more than 20 years, will...

Oregon Supreme Court Orders Boy Scouts to Make Sex Abuse Files Public

WASHINGTON -An extraordinary collection of nearly 1,250 secret files kept by the Boy Scouts of America to document cases of child sex...

UK Advocates Turning to NYC as Model for ‘Saner’ Criminal Justice System

But then something remarkable happened, according to Greg Berman, author of the recent report “A Thousand Small Sanities: Crime Control Lessons from...

More Health Insurance Providers Back Coverage for Adult Children

WASHINGTON – Three major health insurance companies have announced they will continue to provide coverage to dependent children on family plans until...

Report Urges State Agencies to Address Growing Kinship Care Needs

A new report finds that more American children are living under kinship care with relatives or family friends instead of their parents,...

Facebook App Puts Public Inside Foster Care System

Each year, more than half a million children come into contact with the foster care system in the United States. Of those, 80 percent...

Applications Now Available for CJJR’s Information Sharing Certificate Program

The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University‘s Public Policy Institute, in partnership with the Juvenile Law Center, has announced its inaugural Information Sharing Certificate...

Analyzing State Differences in Child Well-Being

Brad Cohen, ‘Front of the Class’ Author, Educates About Tourette Syndrome

With all of the news stories about kids being bullied, we often forget that there are some kids that are labeled “different”...

Children’s Well-being Central to Courts’ Mission, Expert Panel Says

The nation’s juvenile and family courts need to lower walls that have blocked the sharing of data that is key for to...

Majority of Young Adults Don’t Know Enough About Birth Control Methods, Study Finds

A majority of young adults don’t know enough about contraceptives, according to results from a new Guttmacher Institute study. Six in 10...

Wise Words to the Pre-Tattooed Teen

Our 21 year old took a summer job in a tattoo shop. It seemed perfect at the time because he was an...

Webcast Explores How Courts Can Better Serve Overall ‘Well-Being’ of Children

After years of focusing on the safety of children, the nation’s juvenile courts are shifting to a more holistic approach that takes...

22 Million Children Could Be Left Without Food Stamps Due to Budget Cuts

Some 22 million children who depend on the federal nutrition assistance program that replaced food stamps could lose their benefits under a...

Food Drive for Kids Kicks Off Mother’s Day in New York City

Mother’s Day marks the first day of the annual Feed the Kids food drive in New York City by City Harvest, a food rescue organization...