All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

• Illinois Budget a Really Bad Harbinger for 2010

  For all of the political chicanery associated with Illinois, its services to youth involved with the child welfare system are regarded by...

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  FDA Advisory Committee OKs Marketing Use of Three Psych Meds for Youth

  An expert panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the marketing of three psychotropic medications for use by...

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  Cycle of Failure, Tapeworm in the System

  These are the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform’s first two pieces on the state of Michigan’s child welfare system as the...

• Juvenile and Family Court Judges Conference Set for July

  The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges is holding its annual conference in Chicago on July 12-15. The conference offers...

• Weekly Notes: New Head of Refugee Resettlement at HHS; Financing Needs of Aging Out Youth; and more

  ***Eskinder Negash has been appointed to be director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the Administration for Children and...

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  FDA Committee to Rule on Psych Meds for Youths

  The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will vote next week on whether to allow three psychotropic medications to be...

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  Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care

  Doyle compared the criminal outcomes of youth in foster care to those who were kept with their families, excluding from his sample...

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  Connected by 25 Reports

  Both reports cover youth aging out of the foster care system. Financing Housing Supports for Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care outlines...

• NCCPR’s ‘Give ’em Hell’ Approach Aimed at Problems with Michigan Reform

  The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR) is not the biggest fan of Ismael Ahmed, the director of Michigan’s Department of...

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  A Funding Offer Wins Praise, but Few Takers

    From a policy perspective, nary anyone says a bad word about the guardianship assistance payments (GAPs) established by the Fostering Connections...

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  Tsering D. Alleyne: Youth Caseworker

    Tsering D. Alleyne Redwood Community Action Agency, Youth Services BureauHumboldt County, Calif.(707) 923-1147http://www.rcaa.org Age: 23 Salary: $23,160. My Organization: The Youth...

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  Taking Risks for Transition-Age Youth

    On any given day, scores of young people with limited individual and social capital are simultaneously struggling to exit some systems...

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  FosterClub

  http://www.fosterclub.com The Oregon-based, nonprofit Foster Club hopes to unite the nation’s more than 500,000 foster care youth with this website, which serves...

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  Youth Frontiers

  http://www.youthfrontiers.org This site, created by a nonprofit of the same name, contains information about numerous programs and resources aimed at making schools...

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  How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery

  Child Welfare Information Gateway In an attempt at government transparency, this branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...

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  Child Maltreatment 2007

  U.S. Administration on Children, Youth and Families This analysis of approximately 3.2 million referrals made to the nation’s state child protective services...

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  New Children’s Health Law Reduces the Harmful Impact of Documentation Requirements

    Center of Budget and Policy Priorities A federal law enacted in February will reduce the number of U.S. children who are...

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  Foster Children Medicated Without Consent

  Nearly one in six children in the Florida foster care system who had been prescribed psychotropic medication were given the drugs without...

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  New Rule On TANF Could Mean Millions for Youth and Family Services in Your State

  If you aren’t watching what your state legislators and governor are doing with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families money (TANF), now is...

• Three of 16 Innovation Award Finalists are CW Programs

  Youth-focused reform efforts had another strong showing this year among the finalists for the Innovations in Government Award, which is funded by...