All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

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  Civil Union Laws Can Spell End of Child Welfare Services for Faith-based Groups

  Most states that have approved same-sex marriage or civil unions have not lost the services of faith-based child welfare providers, but the...

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  GAO Says U.S. Child Maltreatment Deaths Are Undercounted

  Officially, the number of children who died of maltreatment in the United States in 2009 was 1,770. That’s the count from the...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Minnesota, Leader in Youth Services, Has Shut Down (UPDATED JULY 7)

  Some youth programs in Minnesota are being threatened by a shutdown of the state government brought on by an impasse over the...

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  America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011

  Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics The largest annual collection of indicators on the health, behavior and circumstances of American...

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  Disproportionality Rates for Children of Color in Foster Care

  Most states continue to place high rates of African-American children in foster care, said a recent report on race and foster care...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Awards July 2011

  2011 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award For: Commitment to increasing California’s health care workforce and its diversity. By: The California Wellness...

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  Newsmakers July 2011

  Nonprofits Roxanne Spillett, who has led the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1996, announced she will step down as...

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  Foster Care Agency, Florida DCF Make Changes after Girl’s Dealth

  The Florida agency responsible for supervising the foster care of 10-year-old brother and sister twins – one of whom was found dead...

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  Supreme Court Takes Two Views on Questioning Youths

  The U.S. Supreme Court, deciding cases about questioning youths, sidestepped the constitutional questions surrounding interviewing children in their schools about alleged child...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy

  Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee BoyCarlos EireFree Press307 pages. This stand-alone sequel to Waiting for Snow in Havana,...

• Book Reviews

  Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a Man

  Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a ManYouth Communication226 pages. In 35 autobiographical stories and articles, 26 urban males...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Leader’s Guide to Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a Man

  A Leader’s Guide to Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a ManYouth Communication and Development without Limits354 pages. also...

• Less Than Citizens

  In a move contrary to the most cherished of American values, a band of ultraconservative activists is targeting the U.S.-born children of...

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  Senate Passes Bill That Strips Confirmation Requirement for Juvenile Justice, Child Welfare Jobs

  The Senate passed by a 79-20 margin today the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011, which would remove the Senate...

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  Leader of Child Welfare Website Wins Online Journalist of the Year

  The leader of an advocacy media organization dedicated to coverage of child welfare is the Los Angeles Press Club’s Online Journalist of...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Streamlining the Confirmation Process Is Good for Everybody

  We members of a special bipartisan commission to help reform the federal appointments process support the enactment of the Presidential Appointment Efficiency...

• Connecticut’s profile in courage

  Time for a pop quiz:      Earlier this month, police ruled the death of a five-month-old boy a homicide.  The family was previously...

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  Details of 2009 Child Maltreatment Data Released

  New information released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides more details about the number of allegations of maltreatment...

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  The Influence of Race, Income, and Risk on the Substantiation Decision in Child Welfare

  Children and Youth Services Review This study uses data from the Texas child welfare system to identify the factors that contribute to...

• Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist

  Entry 12: Looking Back on a Decade I have been President of Promise House for ten years this month and with the...