Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Shelter from the Storm
Educational Television Productions of Northeastern Wisconsin, NEWIST/CESA#727 minutes. DVD $195. Four single mothers struggling to provide homes for their children are...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Grandfamilies State Law and Policy Resource Center
http://www.grandfamilies.org This is a legal resource for families in which grandparents care for their grandchildren – called “grandfamilies.” The site includes...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Children and Clinical Studies
http://www.ChildrenAndClinicalStudies.nhlbi.nih.gov This new site produced by the National Institutes of Health is a resource for parents and health care providers interested...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Homeless Youth TV
http://www.homelessyouthtv.com Virgin Mobile USA created this website to bring together organizations and young people who want to help the more than...
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Matched Comparison of Children in Kinship Care and Foster Care on Child Welfare Outcomes
Colorado State University This study compared permanency, safety and stability outcomes for 318 "matched" pairs of children placed in either kinship care...
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Kevin Ryan Named First Lay President of Covenant House
Kevin Ryan has been named the first lay president of Covenant House (CH), the largest homeless youth services organization in North and...
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Tobacco-Free Kids Head William Corr to HHS
[Note: This story has been corrected from an earlier version] William Corr, executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids since 2000,...
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Using Family Group Conferencing to Assist Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System
American Humane Association This paper considers key factors in using Family Group Conferenceing with citizen children whose families traverse American borders and/or...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Defining the Grandma Effect
ABC News The role played by grandmothers in American families has been spotlighted by President-elect Barack Obama’s speeches about his late grandmother,...
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No Safe Haven for Troubled Kids
Click on graphic to enlarge. Nebraska may have solved the debacle last month over its Safe Haven law – under which...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Child Adolescent Mobile Crisis Team
Parsons Child & Family CenterAlbany, N.Y.(518) 429-2391http://www.parsonscenter.org/services/ChildAdolescentMobileTeam.asp Photo: Parsons Child and Family Center Objective: To provide a community-based response to individual child...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Girls Sports and Eating Disorders: What’s the Connection?
Aquarius Health Care Media27 minutes. DVD $145. What “hidden dangers” lurk in girls’ sports? Ninth-grader Allison dieted and exercised so strenuously that...
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Progress Report on the Shared Youth Vision Partnership
The Shared Vision Partnership provides no money but helps states figure out how to maximize resources going toward youth populations. For example,...
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Madoff Scam Claims JEHT, Picower Foundations
Youth work lost two major benefactors to the apparent Ponzi scheme created by now infamous financial manager Bernard Madoff. New York-based grant...
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Family Rejection as a Predictor of Negative Health Outcomes in White and Latino Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults
César E. Chávez Institute, San Francisco State University/University of Utah Rejection by their families translates into significantly poorer physical and mental health...
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The Economic Crisis Hits Home
First Focus/National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth The nation's school districts are experiencing an upsurge in the number...
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Adolescent Health Services: Missing Opportunities
National Research Council/Institute of Medicine (NRC/IOM) Adolescents receive health services from a fragmented system that's poorly designed to meet their needs, according...
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Letting the Media Wolf in the Door
As executive director of Christ Child House — a Detroit-based residential treatment center for severely troubled boys in foster care — John Yablonky...
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Three Independent Evaluations of Healthy Kids Programs Find Dramatic Gains in Well-Being of Children and Families
About 90 percent of the 60,000 children enrolled in Healthy Kids in those counties receive regular medical care in the form of...
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Q&A: Lawanda Ravoira, National Center for Girls and Young Women
The National Center on Crime and Delinquency has begun work on a major new project: The National Center for Girls and Young...
