All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

• Is Obesity Child Abuse?

  A study in Great Britain has resurrected the controversial question of whether in some cases, children are so obese that they should...

• Child Welfare Advocates Clash Over Rhode Island

  With Rhode Island’s child welfare system facing a lawsuit by one advocacy group, another advocate has taken aim at both the state...

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  Feds Issue Instructions on Fostering Connections Act, Chaffee Act

  The Administration on Children Youth and Families released overarching program instructions last week for the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions...

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  Residential Instability and the McKinney-Vento Homeless Children and Education Program: What We Know, Plus Gaps in Research

  This brief summarizes a study conducted by the Urban Institute of the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program and...

• New Policy Chief at Children’s Rights

  Children’s Rights (CR), the child welfare advocacy group, announced Tuesday that William Meezan will assume the position of director of policy and...

• Help in Applying for Home Visitation Grants

  Child Trends has issued a 25-page guide to help states apply for federal home visiting grants.  Home Visiting Application Process: A Guide...

• Agency Founders Imprisoned for Death of Girl

  Nine employees of a Philadelphia social services agency have been sentenced in the case of a teenager with cerebral palsy who decayed...

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  Childhood Poverty Persistence: Facts and Consequences

  Low-Income Working Families Project, Urban Institute   Children born into poverty whose families continue to be poor for several years have worse...

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  Summer Meals Participation Declined in 2009

  Only about one in six of the children who regularly receive free or reduced-price lunch during the school year received lunch through...

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  On the Streets: The Federal Response to Gay and Transgender Homeless Youth

  Center for American Progress   Recognizing the disproportionate number of homeless youth who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, the Center for...

• N.J. Names Blake Head Department of Children and Families

  Allison Blake, formerly director  of the Rutgers School of Social Work’s Institute for Families, has been confirmed as the new head of...

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  Sweeping New Child Labor Law Reforms Take Effect July 19

  The most sweeping reform of U.S. laws concerning child labor in three decades will go into effect on July 19.  The new...

• Worker Convicted of Perjury in Case of Runaway

  A social services caseworker in Indiana has been convicted of lying to a judge about placing a runaway girl in a shelter...

• N.J. Shows How to Improve Child Welfare

  To see how a state improves its child welfare system while under a court order, look at New Jersey. A new report...

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  Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – United States, 2009

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   Nearly three-quarters of American students – 72.5 percent – have drunk alcohol by the end...

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  The Academy: A Program for Older Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care

  Vera Institute of Justice   Youths in the foster care system who reach adulthood without being reunited with their birth families or...

• Indie Monitoring Unit Shines Light on Maryland JJ

  About 15 states now have some sort of child advocacy office, an entity charged with monitoring the conditions and/or outcomes of youths...

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  Fixing A Broken System: Transforming Maine’s Child Welfare System

  The Annie E. Casey Foundation   Maine’s child welfare system, long hailed as one of the worst in the country, has made...

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  Iowa Slaughterhouse Manager Acquitted of Child Labor Violations

  An Iowa child labor case that gained national attention because of the more than 9,000 violations brought against a slaughterhouse manager has...

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  Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems

  Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown Public Policy Institute Youths who go through both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems often...