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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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

American Legacy Foundation

http://www.legacyforhealth.org The American Legacy Foundation has changed its online presence by revamping its website – identifying itself as Legacy: For longer healthier...

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Britain Changes Background Check Plan for Youth Workers

During a time when the American public and its lawmakers keep calling for more background checks for anyone who works with youth,...

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Tobacco funds rarely used for anti-tobacco efforts

A new report showing that state governments cut funding of smoking prevention programs by 15.4 percent this past fiscal year is the...

Senate Judiciary May Markup JJDPA Reauthorization Tomorrow

The Senate Judiciary Committee has the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) on the schedule to get picked...

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Child Advocates Push for CAPTA Reauthorization

The need for more interstate cooperation in child abuse cases was one issue highlighted today as six child abuse prevention advocates testified...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Leaders Unite to Implement Fostering Connections Act

Nine nonprofits have joined to support a new nationwide effort to carry out the Fostering Connections Act, which serves to meet...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Report Says Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths Underreported

A new report by the nonpartisan child advocacy group Every Child Matters Education Fund shows that the deaths of 10,440 U.S....

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Decoding Data to Help Youth Workers

In juvenile justice and child welfare, it is usually the extremes – sweeping reforms and devastating scandals – that garner attention....

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Homeless Programs Hit Skid Row

Vicki Wagner: Not going away Last month, Vicki Wagner took a call from the National Council on Accreditation, which was trying to...

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The State of City Leadership for Children and Families in 2009

National League of Cities This National League of Cities report, released last month at the league’s National Summit on Your City’s...

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Availability of Less Nutritious Snack Foods and Beverages in Secondary Schools

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed its School Health Profiles data...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Resource Center

http://www.fosteringconnections.org Implementation at the state and local level of new federal foster-care reform legislation will receive a boost from this new site,...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Growing Up in the Care of Strangers: The Experiences, Insights and Recommendations of Eleven Former Foster Kids

Edited by Waln K. Brown and John R. SeitaWilliam Gladden Foundation Press 175 pages. $27.95. It’s a “lofty goal” to protect the...

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Report Says Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths Underreported

A report released today by the nonpartisan child advocacy group Every Child Matters Education Fund shows that the deaths of 10,440 U.S....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

… Run Home Visitation Programs

Based on growing evidence that both intellectual and emotional development begin at, if not before, birth, voluntary home visitation programs for pregnant...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Can a Therapist Help Me Manage?

Andrea, 22Represent, New York (The author’s name has been changed.) I open my eyes and hear my therapist’s voice. “Andrea, do...

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Preventing Child Maltreatment

Princeton University/The Brookings Institution The fall 2009 entry in The Future of Children journal series explores the prevention of child maltreatment...