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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Bonuses for Helping Uninsured Children Get Coverage

The New York Times reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will announce $205 million n Medicaid bonuses for states...

Details of Proposed Texas Child Welfare Overhaul

To learn the scope of the proposed overhaul of the Texas child welfare system, click here to read Robert Garrett’s account in...

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Child Abuse and Neglect Cases Decline, Deaths Rise

The number of child abuse and neglect cases dropped slightly last year, for the third year in a row, but the number...

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More Grandparents Than Ever Raising Children

Nearly 5 million children in the U.S. are being raised by their grandparents, according to data from the American Community Survey (ACS)....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist

I’ve been partying so heartily this month that I completely forgot about blogging. But last Wednesday, as we were decorating the Promise...

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Child Abuse Legislation Passes Both Chambers

The much-discussed DREAM Act remains in limbo as the Senate and House deal on tax cuts and fiscal 2011 spending. But another...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Monitor Levels Sharp Criticism at Michigan Child Welfare System

The independent court monitor in Michigan’s child welfare reform court case has serious concerns about the state’s ability to keep track of...

In Connecticut, Seclusion and Restraint are Shockingly Common Practice in Schoolrooms

Six-year-old Anthony Wickham weighed about 48 pounds when five adults forcibly restrained him at Plainfield’s Shepherd Elementary School. Anthony, a student in...

Guest Opinion Essay

The $5 Billion Blunder

Suppose that, five years ago, you had a large sum of money to invest and two financial advisors competing for your business....

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Publication to Offer Lessons Learned on Child Welfare Litigation

An array of people involved in child welfare litigation are preparing a publication that will discuss lessons learned from the decades of...

Introducing Harriet Boorhem, Youth Today’s First Diarist

I first became aware of Harriet Boorhem about a year ago while we were researching a story on the state of homeless...

Child Welfare in Israel

We had a chance to sit down with Prof. Hillel Schmid of Israel’s Haruv Institute, a Jerusalem organization that was started in...

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Adolescent Obesity in the United States

One out of every six adolescents (ages 12 to 19) is overweight, according to a November report of youth obesity statistics by...

A Sad Situation from Rural America We Cannot Ignore

Over the past few months we’ve seen plenty of news stories about celebrities going in and out of jail and fed-up flight...

National Adoption Month: Message received

There are a whole slew of national “days” and “months” devoted to youth issues. We get e-mails alerting us to most of...

Weekly Notes: Looming SORNA deadline; Juvenile services secretary steps down

***States have until July to pass legislation that establishes a federally-compliant sex offender database; look for those conversations to start in earnest...

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