All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

New Help for Children Raised by Grandparents and Other Relatives: Questions and Answers about the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008

Practitioners, agencies and policymakers with questions about the Fostering Connections Act are likely to find their question - and its answer -...

Eldorado Investigation

The Experiences of New York City Foster Children in HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials

An independent review into medical experiments performed on African-American and Latino foster children in New York found that the HIV/AIDS clinical trials...

Foster Care Ruling Holds State Workers Liable

Foster care workers can be held liable if the children they place in foster homes are sexually abused by other children in...

Rosie’s Place

Community Youth ServicesOlympia, Wash.(360) 943-0780http://www.communityyouthservices.org/p_rosies_place.shtml Out-of-the-box lunch: Staffers serve a hot meal dailyto the homeless youth who drop in. Objective: To provide...

I Will Speak Up for Myself: Your Legal Rights in Shelters, STAR Homes, Group Homes or Residential Treatment Centers

Stacey Violante Cote, et al. Center for Children’s Advocacy 43 pages, plus 10-minute DVD. Book and DVD package, $20; book alone, $10;...

Foster Care Central

http://www.fostercarecentral.org A social networking tool primarily for foster parents and social workers, this site has nearly 1,000 members and includes blogs, discussion...

Trends in the Diagnosis of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents: 1999-2007

Academy of Pediatrics Childhood obesity has emerged in recent years as a serious problem in America, receiving widespread media coverage. According to...

Weekly Notes: Conn. Age Change Might be Delayed; Developments on Pennsylvania JJ Scandal; Report on Status Offenders; and More

***Connecticut has become a darling, of sorts, for the juvenile justice community.  It has signed on to MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change...

Foster Care Abuse Ruling Goes Against State Workers

Foster care workers can be held liable if the children they place in foster homes are sexually abused by other children in...

Staffer Assault on Youth Prompts Shutdown of Facility

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) is preparing to revoke the license of Visions for Youth, the Springfield-based foster care...

Obama Signs Children’s Health Bill Vetoed by Bush

President Obama signed into law this afternoon a bill that is projected to extend health insurance to 4.1 uninsured children by 2013. ...

Huge National Children’s Study Begins Recruiting

  The National Institutes of Health announced in early January that the National Children’s Study has begun to recruit volunteer mothers-to-be and...

Foster Kids Drum Up Attention

  The Bonnie Brae Knights Drum Corps may be the unlikeliest of the 90 groups chosen from a record 1,382 applicants to...

Regional Networks Get Disconnected

Correction to this article: The location of a satellite office for the Southeastern Network of Youth & Family Services was incorrect. The office...

System Fails, Kids Die:

COLUMBUS (OHIO) DISPATCH An investigation by The Columbus Dispatch found that 87 of 234 children who died from abuse or neglect from...

… Train Kin to be Foster Parents

  Generic foster parent training programs can make grandparents, aunts, uncles and others who take in children of their relatives feel like...

Defining Family: I Love My Mom, But I Can’t Live with Her

Tamara, 16Represent, New York (Names have been changed.) My hands began to tremble as I reached for the telephone. For each number...

Defining Family: Before I Got Adopted, My Mom and I Had to Build a Relationship

By Manny Sanchez, 16New Youth Connections, New York By the time I was sent to my third foster home when I was...

My Lifebook Journal: A Workbook for Children in Foster Care

  Therese AccinelliInstant Help Books/New Harbinger Publications126 pages. $16.95. With clear instructions from a therapist who works with foster children, this workbook...