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All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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Juvenile Judges Find Benchcards Helpful in Reuniting Families
Note: This is the second part of a recap of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges annual conference, written...
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News
Jobs a Major Challenge for Low-Income Families, Report Finds
The number of American children living with job-seeking, unemployed adults has doubled since 2007 and nearly a third of children live in...
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An Examination of Sex Differences in Relation to the Eating Habits and Nutrient Intakes of University Students
National Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior College students aren’t eating even as much as a serving a day of fruits and...
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Peter Goldberg, Leader of Major Child Welfare Group, Dies Unexpectedly
Peter Goldberg, CEO of Milwaukee-based Families International for the past 17 years, died on August 12 after suffering a heart attack while...
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A Tale of Two Homes: I Finally Stood Up to My Sneaky Foster Mom
Note: This column was republished with permission from Represent Magazine: The Voice of Youth in Foster Care When I was 15, my...
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Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Top Headlines 8/10
Child Welfare The top Miami administrator of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, who was reprimanded for the handling of the Barahona...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
So, here’s a funny. Over the weekend, I was called at 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning to help the overnight shelter staff find...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Youth Villages to Expand Transitional Living Program with $42 million grant
A major multi-state provider of child welfare services will receive perhaps one of the largest grants ever made to a social service...
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Two Cases from Detroit Show Child Welfare’s Double Standards
In a previous column I wrote about the effort to pretend that the racial bias that can be found in every other...
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After Interning on Capitol Hill, Former Foster Youth Challenge Child Welfare’s Accountablity
States should not receive federal funding for foster care if they are not providing high-quality services, caseworkers should not be allowed to...
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System Overload: The Costs of Under-Resourcing Public Defense
Justice Policy Institute Public defense systems across the United States are overburdened, according to this new report from the Justice Policy Institute. ...
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Early Childhood Policy Focus: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Child Trends This brief analyzes data and current research on the nutritional and exercise habits of children under the age of 6...
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Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Top Headlines 7/27
Child Welfare As more children are placed in foster families, adopted or returned to their birth parents, the number of group foster...
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Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Top Headlines 7/26
Child Welfare Gay teens in Massachusetts are more likely to be homeless than their heterosexual peers, according to new research from the...
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Kids’ Share 2011: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2010
The Brookings Institution and The Urban Institute The fifth annual Kids’ Share report represents a milestone in the analysis and reporting of...
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Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Top Headlines 7/25
Child Welfare Nebraska turned to out-sourcing many of the functions of the state child welfare agency to gain stability, cut costs and...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
So, Texas is going on 20 days of 100 degree or hotter weather. I think the heat has wilted not only my...
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Secondhand Smoke and Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Adolescents
Archives of Otolaryngology Secondhand smoke, the perils of which continue to grow, has now been linked to possible hearing loss in adolescents....
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Prescription: TLC
Note: This column was republished with permission from Represent Magazine: The Voice of Youth in Foster Care It all started when I...
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House Committee Votes to Strip Restrictions on Title I, Other Funds
The House Education and the Workforce Committee voted today – strictly along party lines – to allow local school districts to spend...
