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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Another Shelter Hits Skid Row

Here’s another gloomy sign of the times for runaway and homeless shelters: After 38 years, Baltimore’s only shelter exclusively for youth closed...

News

Case of Lemonade Leaves Sour Taste

On Saturday, April 12, Christopher Ratte did his part to fulfill the Rockwellian father/son ritual by taking his 7-year-old, Leo, to watch...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

More Sleep Is Good for Teenage Students

Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) Despite what Jay Haugen, superintendent of West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan schools, calls a “preponderous amount of evidence...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Lupe Tovar

Lupe Tovar Program CoordinatorIn My ShoesTucson, Ariz.(520) 747-1533www.inmyshoesinc.org Age: 25 Salary: $25,000 to $30,000 About In My Shoes: This nonprofit provides one-on-one...

Guest Opinion Essay

Residential Centers Can Be Ideal

John Kelly’s article “Child Welfare’s Historic Headache” [May] states, “Yes, residential centers are overused in child welfare.” Why is this stated as...

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State Secrecy and Child Deaths in the U.S.

Children’s Advocacy Institute/First Star Only two states, Nevada and New Hampshire, received a grade of A in this report rating the child...

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State Policies Affecting the Assurance of Confidential Care for Adolescents

Incenter Strategies Minor youth often feel the need to know that the information they share with healthcare providers is confidential, even in...

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Constraints on Minority Swimming Participation

USA Swimming Foundation Nearly 60 percent of African-American and Hispanic youth ages 6 to 16 are unable to swim – nearly twice...

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Residential Facilities: Improved Data and Enhanced Oversight Would Help Safeguard the Well-Being of Youth with Behavioral and Emotional Challenges

The number of state-reported fatalities of youth in residential facilities, by agency and facility type. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Federal investigations...

Research

Can AFCARS be Rescued?

Children and Family Research Center/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Available at http://cfrcwww.social.uiuc.edu/pubs/Pdf.files/CAN_AFCARS_BE_RESCUED_final.pdf. The way states submit data to the federal Adoption and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Fostering Hope: Restoring Shattered Lives

Produced by Ralph CunninghamVista Film & VideoDVD, 57:50 minutes. $19.95. With the highest rate of foster care cases in Oregon, Marion County...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Boot Camp

Residential CARETodd StrasserSimon & Schuster238 pages. $15.99. Talk about fiction ripped from the news pages: Fifteen-year-old Garrett can’t believe that his parents...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Child Welfare Information Gateway

http://www.childwelfare.gov This federal government service, which provides information and resources to help protect children and families, recently made its website more user-friendly....

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

SCHIP Limits: Who Holds the Cards?

Senate Democrats last month tried new legislation and nasty words (“fatwah”) to stop the White House from limiting enrollment in the federal...

News

Child Welfare’s Historic Headache

Historic Removal: FLDS women and children board a school bus to go from the YFZ Ranch to a child protective services processing...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Database to Track Foster Youth

The final federal rule on the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) went into effect on April 28. The rule establishes data...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

SCHIP Limits: Who Holds the Cards?

Senate Democrats last month tried new legislation and nasty words (“fatwa”) to stop the White House from limiting enrollment in the federal...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Expert: Ruling Amounts to Censorship

The Indianapolis Star An Indiana judge has blocked a local television station from airing a parent’s frustrated criticisms of the state’s Department...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier