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All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Independent Living Unit
Allegheny County Department of Human ServicesPittsburgh, Pa.(412) 350-5701http://www.alleghenycounty.us/dhs Objective: To provide assistance to youth aging out of the child welfare system...
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Guest Opinion Essay
The Voices of Homeless Teens Must Be Heard
The simple act of placing legislators and homeless teens in the same room and allowing them to pick one another’s brain...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
My Personal Trainer
LA Youth, Los Angeles (Names have been changed.) A few years ago, I was in a group home in West Los...
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Connected by 25: Financing Housing SupportsConnected by 25: Financing Policies and Practices That Support Permanency
The Finance Project Initiatives designed to improve the lives of youths aging out of foster care could be funded by tapping...
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Research-Based Recommendations to Improve Child Nutrition in Schools and Out-of-School Time Programs
Child Trends Want children to eat a healthier diet? Make certain they know what a healthy diet is and expose them...
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Health Care Reform for Children with Public Coverage: How Can Policymakers Maximize Gains and Prevent Harm?
Urban Institute In examining how health care reform might affect the estimated 25 million children now covered under Medicaid or the...
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News
Casey’s 2009 Kids Count Shows Improvement in Six of 10 Areas
The 2009 Kids Count Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual statistical analysis of children’s well-being released today, showed a...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Child Welfare: A Summer Review
With vacations and some summer projects in the works at Youth Today, it’s been awhile since we posted to the ChildWelfare Today...
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Extending Foster Care to Age 21: Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for States
Chapin Hall and National Governors Association This Web conference examines the possible impact of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions...
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News
Casey’s 2009 Kids Count Shows Improvement in Six of 10 Areas
The 2009 Kids Count Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual statistical analysis of children’s well-being released today, showed a...
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Fostering Connections Webinar Coming Up
Two national child welfare organizations are teaming up to host webinars on the many provisions of the Fostering Connections to Success and...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Windfall
If you run an effective college readiness program and were banking on crucial federal funding that failed to come through, do...
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News
Did Cops Taser Foster Kids?
The Illinois Office of State Guardian is suing Jefferson County (Mount Vernon) and law enforcement officers there, alleging that a...
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America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal inter-agency report shows a few small changes in the well-being of...
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Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of ADHD/ADD and of Learning Disability
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Though it makes no effort to establish possible causes and some of its findings are...
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Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Simplified or joint forms, the elimination of face-to-face interviews, a centralized system for eligibility processing and presumptive...
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News
New York-based Family Justice to Close in Fall
Family Justice, a New York-based agency that was a pioneer in the method of helping the entire family of a child...
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Illinois Is Down; Is Baltimore Up?
Child welfare in Illinois was in rough shape when the ACLU of Illinois filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Children...
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News
Samuels Tapped to Head Administration on Children, Youth and Families
President Barack Obama has tapped a veteran Chicago youth services leader to run the Administration on Children, Youth and Families – a...
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Weekly Notes: Funding at ACF; New Measure for Poverty; Jim Casey Youth Opportunity Initiative Report
***The Family and Youth Services Bureau, a division of the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, is taking...
