All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

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  Non-income Effects of Welfare Receipt on Early Childhood Cognitive Scores

  Children and Youth Services Review New research conducted at the University of Missouri and Central Michigan University looks at the effect that...

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  Running Away from Foster Care: Youths’ Knowledge and Access of Services

  The Urban Institute, Chapin Hall (University of Chicago) A new study from the University of Chicago showed that high percentages of young...

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  Student Health Essential to Increase Academic Performance

  California Healthy Students Research Project The California Healthy Students Research Project is aimed at finding a link between student performance and physical...

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  Alliance for Children and Families to Help Some Members Emphasize Strategy

  The Alliance for Children and Families, a major trade group, has received a four-year, $5,375,000 grant to help 19 of its 350...

• The Girls Haven’t Gone Bad, Mr. Epps: They Just Need Help

  As the Director of the Center for Girls and Young Women, I am deeply disturbed by the recent remarks of Charles T....

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  House Passes Waiver Program for Child Welfare Systems

  The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would extend the federal government’s waiver program for child welfare systems, which has...

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  Children in Foster Care Down 22 Percent in Decade

  The total number of children in foster care continues to decline – down about 22 percent from 2000 to 2009 – new...

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  Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Fourth Amendment Rights in Child Abuse Interviews

  The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to rule on the constitutional questioned posed by Camreta v. Greene and Alford v. Greene, cases...

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  A Little Knowledge Can Be a Dangerous Thing for Children

  Every year or so, the child welfare community finds a new way to prove the adage “a little knowledge is a dangerous...

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  More Fruits and Vegetables in School Lunches but No New Money for Kitchen Improvements

  Many school districts don’t have the money for equipment or training to implement the new dietary guidelines for the national school lunch...

• Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist

  Entry 11: Monday Sucks! So far, Monday sucks. I just had to tell my Parents with Promise staff that Congress, in all...

• Weekly Notes: David Richart remembered, State Advisory Groups head to D.C., new juvenile justice fellowships, and more

  ***Yesterday, YouthToday.org published a piece from Spalding University (Ky.) social work professor Helen Deines about the life and career of her friend,...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Bill Introduced to Offer New Child Welfare Waivers

  A bill introduced this week would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to issue more waivers to allow state child...

• Eight Things I Loved About David Richart

  Helen Deines is Professor of Social Work Emeritus at Spalding University in Louisville. She was also a close friend of Kentucky youth...

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  Letter from 19 Congressmen Urges Obama to Name a leader at OJJDP

  A group of 19 congressmen is pressing the Obama White House to fill the long-vacant post of administrator of the Office of...

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  Q&A: Bryan Samuels, Obama’s Top Child Welfare Appointee

  Bryan Samuels, who has served for more than a year now as President Barack Obama’s Commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth...

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  Former Florida Child Welfare Boss Will Lead Administration for Children and Families

  George Sheldon, the former head of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, will lead the Administration for Children and Families for President...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Interesting research on private justice funding; Iraq’s juvenile justice system; upcoming events; and more

  ***Notes is back after a one-week hiatus brought on by, of all things, a website hacker. When we opened up the Youth...

• The Straight Dope on Fake Dope

  [This article was reprinted with permission from the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange] In Jordan Cox’s view, it was a waste of money....

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  Disappearing Parents: A Report on Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System

  University of Arizona         When a parent is arrested or detained by immigration enforcement, the chances that they will ever regain custody of...