Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
-
2.9KNews‘We celebrate together’: Home visitation programs support new parents
In addition to providing basic prenatal and early childhood development education to parents, home visitors are also trained to screen for violence...
-
1.5KNewsNew Mexico to offer equal pay to Native American teachers
New Mexico will begin to offer equal pay to dozens of Indigenous language teachers as part of a new law aimed at...
-
6.4KFrom the BureausA gang-banger since 8th grade, former Blood sets a new course with a former prosecutor’s help
There is no recent official count of how many individuals have departed gang life. In 2012, the most recent year that the...
-
1.8KNewsStates launch probe into TikTok’s effect on kids’ health
State attorneys general have launched a nationwide investigation into TikTok and its possible harmful effects on young users' mental health, widening government...
-
2.6K► ReportsReport: More than 5 million children orphaned by global COVID pandemic with numbers still climbing
Researchers publish a new report in The Lancet showing how many children have been orphaned by the COVID pandemic.
-
2.1KFrom the BureausQ&A: Exalt’s Gisele Castro on the importance of New York’s “raise the age” law
Exalt is a nonprofit in New York City. Giselle Castro talks about Exalt's work and their "raise the age" efforts. They work...
-
2.1KNewsNew Mexico to create new legal aid office for child welfare cases
Child welfare professionals in New Mexico are applauding passage of a bill they say will improve legal representation for youth and families...
-
2.4KNewsNative activists hail passage of New Mexico Indian Family Protection Act
New Mexico lawmakers have passed a bill that strengthens protections for Native American children in state care. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is...
-
1.3KNewsNew Mexico lawmakers, citing political frustrations, pull juvenile justice reform bill
Proposed reforms to New Mexico’s juvenile sentencing rules failed to become law for a second year in a row after the bill’s...
-
5.3KNewsLawmakers, federal investigators target teen facilities billed as therapeutic but accused of abuse
Separate investigations by the federal Government Accountability Office and Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general that were launched in 2021,...
-
1.6K► ReportsProspects for children in 2022: A global outlook
UNICEF takes a look at the year ahead and the key trends impacting children as the world attempts to recover from the...
-
5.5KNewsQ&A: UPenn Prof. Dorothy Roberts makes the case for abolishing the child welfare system
For Dorothy Roberts, a scholar of race and gender at the University of Pennsylvania law school, there is nothing well-meaning or compassionate...
-
3.5KFrom the BureausDisabilities sometimes go undiagnosed in homeless students targeted by new federal education funds, experts say
The $800 million that the American Rescue Plan earmarked for homeless students is the largest such federal expenditure in a decade, with...
-
1.8KFrom the BureausUpcoming study aims to gauge prevalence and impact of traumatic brain injury on juveniles in detention
Traumatic brain injury among juvenile offenders will be assessed as part of a three-year research project that’s slated to enroll the first...
-
1.8KNewsSocial workers’ field safety remains concern after killing
Illinois officials are seeking answers after the killing last week of a state child welfare worker during a home visit — the...
-
3.0KNewsMonths after pandemic aid lapsed, former foster youth struggling
Not long after the federal government passed a pandemic relief package last December to help former foster youth struggling to make ends...
-
2.5K► ReportsHidden pain: Children who lost a parent or caretaker to COVID-19 and what the nation can do to help them
COVID Collaborative and Social Policy Analytics releases a new report highlighting the number of children who have lost parents or caretakers in...
-
2.2K► ReportsU.S. Surgeon General advisory: Protecting youth mental health
The U.S. Surgeon General releases a new advisory discussing the need to urgently address the youth mental health crisis across the nation.
-
2.0K► ReportsKids’ Share 2021: Report on federal expenditures on children through 2020 and future projections
The Urban Institute publishes the 15th edition of its annual analysis of federal spending on children and how it will change over...
-
3.7KNewsPredictive analytics in child welfare raise concerns
A contentious debate on the value of using predictive analytics within the child welfare system is unfolding between proponents who say the...
