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All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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High-level Strategy and Leadership Needed to Continue Progress toward Protecting Children from Environmental Threats
U.S. Government Accountability Office Lack of consistent and strategic leadership from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on efforts to protect the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Just Say Maybe to Abstinence ED
Like the “just say no” anti-drug advertisements that first lady Nancy Reagan made famous a generation ago, abstinence-only sex education programs...
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Book Reviews
The Trauma Myth: The Truth About Sexual Abuse of Children – and Its Aftermath
Susan A. ClancyBasic Books256 pages. $25 When I began researching and writing about child sex abuse two decades ago, one thing...
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Book Reviews
Reforming Child Welfare
Olivia GoldenThe Urban Institute Press300 pages. $29.50 paperback. “When parents can’t or won’t” keep their children safe, writes Olivia Golden, the public...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Fostering Media Connections
http://www.fosteringmediaconnections.org/ Site visitors can follow the Fostering Media Connections blog, updated with stories, articles and videos related to the organization’s events and...
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News
Boy Scouts Buffeted by New Sex Abuse Charges
Normally, the Boy Scouts of America wins headlines like this: “Autistic Scout Saves Teacher” (CNN, last October). But today, the headlines are...
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News
Judges’ Council Support Elimination of Valid Court Order Exception
The board of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) voted over the weekend to support elimination of the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Child Welfare Nominee Grilled Over Sexuality Views
It looks like New Jersey will soon get a new director for its Department of Children and Families, but state lawmakers are...
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News
Child Welfare Reform Meets Recession; Recession Wins
A report released today about efforts to overhaul Michigan’s child welfare system shows how the recession gets in the way of reform....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Flexible Funding Improves Child Welfare in Florida
There’s new evidence that a more flexible system for spending federal child welfare money helps to reduce abuse and keep kids out...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Hi-tech System Speeds CPS, Police Communication
Los Angeles County officials recently unveiled a new Web-based system for sharing information about suspected child abuse among police, child protection services...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Gay Marriage Law Ends Catholic Foster Care in Washington
The Archdiocese of Washington recently ended its 80-year-old foster care and adoption services in that city because of a new same-sex marriage...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Federal Court Orders State to Cover More Foster Care Costs
Foster care group homes in California are about to get a 30 percent increase in reimbursements from the state, thanks in part...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
First Lady Begins Anti-Obesity Campaign
First lady Michelle Obama kicked off her child obesity awareness tour with a schedule of appearances and speeches active enough to...
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News
California’s Gambit Pays Off for Kinship Care
A threat by California to do an end-run around federal regulations that restricted funding for guardianship programs – even though the...
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News
Is Child Abuse Declining?
Few groups of people are more difficult to count than abused kids, given that both the perpetrators and the victims try to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Targeting All Parents
Nearly 15 years ago, first lady Hillary Clinton popularized the old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”...
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A Look Back at the Adoption and Safe Families Act
Urban Institute & Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) This series of articles reflect the effects and aftermath of...
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What Are the Important Differences Among Kinship Foster Families?
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This study looked at family structure and household composition of families providing kinship care,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Two Moms in My Heart: Teens Explore the Adoption Option
Edited by Al DesettaYouth Communication123 pages. $12 paperback Placed in foster care at age 2, Lishoné Bowsky hardly knows her birth...
