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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Virginia’s “Conscience Clause” Would Shield Child Welfare Providers from Sexuality Conflicts

Virginia’s General Assembly is close to passing a law that will shield its faith-based child welfare partners from having to work with...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

National Hub Started for State Child Welfare Reform

A group of nonprofits will work with the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation to establish a national hub for state child welfare...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

The fundamental failure of “Fostering Connections”

The child welfare establishment couldn’t stop gushing over the Fostering Connections and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008. It was sold as the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Federal Youth Budget 2012

Agency/Program 2009 Enacted 2012 Enacted Agriculture Child Nutrition Programs $15 b $18.2 b Women, Infants & Children Program $6.9...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Potential 2012 Appropriations Deal A Vague and Mixed Bag for Youth Programs

Note: This story was corrected to reflect an accurate figure for the Corporation for National and Community Service Head Start is poised...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

CWLA: Youth Today Didn’t Tell the Whole Story

Note: Youth Today received the following letter in response to an article last week about Child Welfare League of America. It was...

News

Fate of Child Welfare League of America Rests with Pension Plan

The Child Welfare League of America has taken drastic steps to stay alive as competition and the economy have driven membership down...

News

Keeping Foster Youths’ School Connection

Veronica Carrillo, a veteran employee of Child Protective Services in Sacramento County, Calif., still remembers the frantic afternoons child caseworkers once devoted...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Federal Budget Watch 2012

Congress has approved deep cuts in federal juvenile justice funding for 2012, but neither the House nor the Senate has voted on...

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Family-Provider Relationships: A Multidisciplinary Review of High Quality Practices and Associations with Family, Child and Provider Outcomes

Administration for Children and Families Positive relationships between service providers and the adults receiving services are connected with better outcomes for youth,...

News

Rate at Which Psychiatric Meds Are Prescribed to Foster Youth Alarms GAO

The Obama Administration told states last week of its intention to find out more about their practices when it came to monitoring...

Research

The Child Abuse Statistic That’s Scary, Ubiquitous – and Wrong

A 17-year-old and a 19-year-old go out on a date. At the end of the evening they kiss goodnight. If that is...

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Family-Provider Relationships: A Multidisciplinary Review

Administration for Children and Families Positive relationships between service providers and the adults receiving services are connected with better outcomes for youth,...

News

Maltreatment Allegations, Substantiated or Not, A Risk Factor

An allegation of maltreatment, regardless of whether it is ever substantiated, is the strongest signal of a potential for a young child...

News

The Face of Homeless and Runaway Youth

Just out of rehab with no home to go to, Steve spent two months sleeping in his mother’s Saturn. Star took a...

Book Reviews

Ask Us Who We Are: Foster Care in Vermont

Directed by Bess O’Brien Kingdom County Productions75 minutes. DVD; educational package includes two discussion guides. A young man describes the Christmas...

Book Reviews

Living with Cancer: The Ultimate Teen Guide

Denise Thornton Scarecrow Press/Rowman & Littlefield 175 pages. “Lots of kids think they are invincible,” says Peter, who learned he had...

Expanding Child Abuse Laws Unlikely to Protect More Kids

High-profile crimes can generate watershed changes in policy and practice. The publicity surrounding the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson helped lead to...