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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...

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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...

Opinion

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...

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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...

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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