Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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Dual Involvment in Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice Connects to Major Struggles in Adulthood
Los Angeles youths who exit both foster care and juvenile justice earn less as young adults and cost the public more than...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Leaving Homeless Children Behind
Every parent of a child in public school knows that getting that child to and from school is a shared responsibility. Depending...
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Reports on the California Connected by 25 Initiative
The Premise and Promise of the California Connected by 25 Initiative The Promising Strategies from the California Connected by 25 Initiative Stuart...
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Thousands Put in Foster Care While Parents Are Deported
Thousands of U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants are currently living in foster care while their parents are detained or deported, according to...
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State Budget Cuts: America’s Kids Pay the Price
Every Child Matters Education Fund Though the title alludes to fiscal decisions at the state level, this advocacy piece begins by hammering...
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Portrait of Private Agencies in the Child Welfare System
National Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of Child Welfare Services This report highlights the major results from the National Survey of...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Too Many Schools
Note: This column is reprinted with permission from Represent Magazine. A.L.’s heartfelt words are particularly timely this week after a Senate committee passed...
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Senate Committee Passes Education Bill That Strengthens Education Stability for Foster Children
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education bill last night, which...
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Hate Crimes on Campus: Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Campus Safety
An upcoming report in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence evaluates the relationship between racial diversity and the number of hate crimes on...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Senate Education Rewrite Halted Abruptly by Angry Senator
A Senate committee’s markup of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was stopped abruptly early this afternoon when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.),...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Webcast, Guide on Stable Educational Experiences for Foster Youths
As Senate work stalled today on overhauling the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a group of child welfare advocates hosted a webcast...
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Helping Human Services Agencies Reach Teens During Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Almost 10 percent of high school students have experienced physical dating violence in the past year. Approximately 1 in 5 young women...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Alliance Report Predicts Opportunities and Pitfalls for Nonprofits in the Near Future
A series of disruptive forces in the delivery of human services will offer nonprofits willing to take chances, forge networks and share...
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Childhood Poverty Among Hispanics Sets Record, Leads Nation
Pew Hispanic Center Latino children set an unfortunate record in 2010 when they comprised the largest percentage of U.S. children, 17 and...
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Wash. Child Welfare Chief Tapped to Lead Families International, Alliance for Children and Families
Veteran child welfare director Susan Dreyfus will be the new CEO of Milwaukee-based Families International, whose longtime leader Peter Goldberg died of...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
What is your elevator speech? Promise House has struggled with this for years. How do we say what we do in a...
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Home Visitation, Teen Pregnancy Programs Are Targets of House Republicans
House Republicans’ plan to defund all of the health reform provisions for fiscal 2012 would eliminate or drastically reduce two programs aimed...
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Everyday Horrors
I read about a horror story last month. It wasn’t one of those cases where a child died even though the case...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Weekly Notes: Age-raise push begins in New York; Florida dismisses state advisory group; and more
***When New York Chief Judge Lippman proposed a revolutionary change to the state’s juvenile justice system last week, Michael Corriero – a...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
House Approps Would Eliminate AmeriCorps, Increase Head Start Funding
The House Appropriations Committee made public today a proposed spending bill that would eliminate AmeriCorps, increase funding for Head Start and limit...
