Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Doth the Earmark Trough Runneth Dry?
The practice of “earmarking” federal money, a Congressional device with debatable impact on the field of youth work, may soon face extinction....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Group Calls for Conference, Spending on Multigenerational Services
A new report released by Generations United calls for White House conference that addresses the needs of the young and elderly, and...
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Ending the Tobacco Epidemic
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued this strategic plan aimed to control tobacco use. The plan entails accelerating research...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
TANF Should Not Be a Child Welfare Slush Fund
Had Madonna decided to adopt her children from, say, Michigan instead of Malawi, she would have saved herself a lot of grief,...
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News
Suicide Forces Attention on Plight of Older Foster Youth
The suicide of a teenager shortly after aging out of foster care has ignited a public debate in Hawaii about the struggles...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Mad Men and My Own Tobacco Pledge
I love Mad Men. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the time period it takes place, the early...
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Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Top Headlines 11/3
Child Welfare Susan Hamilton, the head of Connecticut’s child welfare agency, has told staff that she will resign Jan. 4, when Gov....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Study Says Nurse Visitation Helps Rural Teens
As the federal government pours more money into nurse home visitation programs for new mothers, a study released this week indicates two...
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Variations in Pregnancy Outcomes Following a Statewide Implementation of a Prenatal Home Visitation Program
As the federal government pours more money into nurse home visitation programs for new mothers, a study released this week indicates two...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
California Extends Foster Care to 21
The state with the nation’s most foster youths will no longer just cut them loose when they turn 18. California Gov. Arnold...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Pew Center Supports Research On Home Visitation Programs
The Pew Center has established 12 new home-visiting research projects to provide policymakers with greater information about how to improve state-based visitation...
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Uninsured Children: Who Are They and Where Do They Live?
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Though the number of uninsured children has been declining since the late 1990s, as many as 9.3 million...
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News
Privatizing Child Welfare Gets Painful
The move to privatize child welfare services, which some states have pursued as a cornerstone of reform, has become painful for just...
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Gay Youth Rock, Despite Hardships
LGBTQ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer] youth have been a rising topic in the media as of late and the circumstances...
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Nearly Half of Energy Consumed by Kids are “Empty” calories
Where Kids Get Their Empty Calories America’s children are in large part ignoring the layout of the food pyramid, according to a...
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News
Education Department to Schools: Protect Against Bullying or Risk Federal Funding
The Department of Education (DOE) notified schools and colleges today that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems...
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News
CWLA to Obama: Where’s the Youth Conference?
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) felt a bit put out by the Community College Summit held at the White House...
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Schools Feed Dinner to Low-Income Youths
While schools have long provided free and reduced-priced breakfast and lunch to low-income youths, public schools in Washington, D.C., have gone much...
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News
Florida Will Not Appeal Ruling on Adoptions by Gays
The fight over gay adoptions in Florida is officially over. The state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) announced Tuesday that –...
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News
Supreme Court to Decide if Warrants Needed for Some Abuse Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear two Oregon cases on whether a warrant is needed for a social workers...
