All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  University of New Hampshire Center for Professional Excellence in Child Welfare

    http://www.unh.edu/cpe New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth, & Families (DCYF) has teamed with the University of New Hampshire to offer employees...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Child Welfare Information Gateway – State Statutes, System Reforms

    http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/state Users can search for state laws on child abuse and neglect, child welfare and adoption on this feature of the...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  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 threat...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  CNCS Unveils Guidelines for Social Innovation Grants

  Long-awaited funding guidelines for the new $50 million Social Innovation Fund were announced Tuesday by the Corporation for National and Community Service...

• News

  Three Nominees Confirmed for Major Youth Work Agencies

  The Senate confirmed more than two dozen nominees of President Barack Obama yesterday, including three leaders of family and child-serving agencies. Patrick...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  First Lady Targets Obesity

    Michelle Obama First lady Michelle Obama has found her issue of choice during her husband’s presidency: Just say no – to...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Homeless/Runaway Services: Demand Up, Resources Down

    Photo: NN4Y More and more youths are knocking on the doors of homeless and runaway programs, but those programs have less...

• News

  Ruling Limits Child Protection Interviews

    A recent federal court ruling will limit the ability of child protection workers to interview suspected child abuse victims at school...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Säjai Foundation

    Hamel, Minn.(952) 288-3364http://www.sajaifoundation.org Objective: To teach children why to value and how to live a healthier life by encouraging them to...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Fix the Adoption Act

    By Lynne Miller As a parent advocate at a foster care agency, I worked with parents to help them reunify with...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  My Family Can’t Afford to Get Sick

  By Serli Polatoglu, 16LA Youth, Los Angeles A few months ago, my father came home from work holding what looked like a...

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  Success Stories From the California Endowment’s Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs

  California Endowment The California Endowment has compiled information about obesity prevention programs that work and found that the successful initiatives included after-school...

• News

  Teen Births and Abortions Are Up

  Teen pregnancy and abortion rates are on the rise, according to a new report, but it’s hard to know exactly why. The...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Survey Shows State of Adoptees and Their Parents

    Twenty-six percent of adopted children have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and 15 percent...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Bills Would Cut School Transfers for Homeless, Foster Kids

  Members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee introduced two bills last month that would encourage academic stability for...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Fighting Hunger

    An initiative to involve more Americans in hunger prevention was launched Thanksgiving week by the Corporation for National and Community Service,...

• News

  Stunning Decisions

  Correction: The article below incorrectly stated that in 2005, Chicago police accidentally killed a 14-year-old in a residential treatment center with a stun...

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  Using Information from Income Tax Forms to Target Medicaid and CHIP Outreach: Preliminary Results of the Maryland Kids First Act

    State Health Access Data Assistance Center The state of Maryland has started to use adjusted gross income and various data from...

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  The Future of Children: Preventing Child Maltreatment

    Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University The investigations of the families of 1.86 million U.S. children for...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Building a Bridge: Stories about Connections between Parents and Foster Parents

    Edited by Nora McCarthyRise Magazine133 pages. $18.95. Can foster parents and child welfare professionals collaborate with the parents of children in...