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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Atlantic Philanthropies Hires New Children and Youth Director

The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant maker with assets of $3.3 billion, has hired Donna Lawrence to oversee its disadvantaged children and...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Gay Ban Overturned

A Florida circuit court judge has ruled that the state’s 31-year ban on adoption by gays is unconstitutional. Monroe Circuit Court Judge...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

State Tries to Stop Flow of Abandoned Kids

Stunned at their state suddenly becoming the nation’s doorstep for unwanted children, Nebraska officials announced last month that they plan to change...

News

Overcoming Volunteers’ Reluctance to Report Abuse

Because of the close ties they develop with youths, volunteer mentors and tutors sometimes learn about disturbing aspects of those kids’...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Profiles of Families that Have Used the Safe Haven Law

THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD Since Sept. 1, eight families have utilized Nebraska’s recently enacted “safe haven” law, which allows parents or guardians to...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Schools Scramble to Help Students with No Place to Live/Homelessness Hits Record High

THE BOSTON GLOBE Over the past three school years, the number of homeless students in Massachusetts grew from about 7,000 to...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Mi Casa

Standing on their own: Youths at Mi Casa, where those aging out of foster care develop skills to make it on their...

Guest Opinion Essay

It’s Time to Help Pregnant and Parenting Foster Youth

While working as a consultant many years ago, I was moved by the words of a pregnant young woman in foster...

Guest Opinion Essay

Foster home staffer attacks youth

Several people were angered by what they saw in our online story and video link about a foster home staffer attacking a...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

STD Wizard

http://www.stdwizard.com STD Wizard’s free, confidential, five-minute quiz helps youth determine if they are at risk for a sexually transmitted disease. At the...

► Reports

Evaluation of the Life Skills Training Program, Los Angeles County, California

This Life Skills Training (LST) program evaluation finds "no reason to believe that LST had a significant positive impact on any of...

► Reports

America’s Health Starts with Healthy Children: How Do States Compare?

The report is the first to rank states on infant mortality and children's health status based on key social factors.

News

Many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students Feel “Unsafe” in School

Nearly 90 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) middle and high school students were verbally harassed at school during the...

News

Videotape Puts Program in Jeopardy

The chance videotaping of a boot-camp foster home staffer slamming a 16-year-old to the ground and pinning him down – because the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Major Adoption Bill Passes

The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act was passed by the U.S. Senate on Sept. 23 after being approved by...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Students Can Send Text Message Tips to Cops

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Students in 10 Chicago public high schools can now send police anonymous text messages from their cell phones to alert...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

www.aecf.org The grant-making organization’s revamped website features the latest news about AECF’s philanthropic efforts in the family- and child-welfare field, and...

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