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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Child Protection: Through the Eyes of a Social Worker

Wisconsin State Journal As part of a series examining Wisconsin’s child protection system, the State Journal profiles social worker Lisa Hankes, who,...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Foster Kids Seek Sibling Contact

Rocky Mountain News Colorado foster children will be allowed to visit their brothers and sisters regularly under a bill that easily passed...

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Federal Tax Benefits: Foster, Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers

National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) According to the NFPA, “neither the Internal Revenue Service nor commercial tax manuals offer information on unique...

Research

Teens Who Work Are More Likely to Smoke

RAND Available at http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2008/RAND_RB9321.pdf Public health campaigns to reduce teen smoking have shown positive results in recent years, particularly those that are...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Meeting the Needs of Children with Disabilities

Laudan Y. Aron, Pamela J. LoprestUrban Institute Press129 pages. $26.50. Although federal programs spend $60 billion a year to help more than...

News

Reform Plan: A New Model in Child Welfare Cases?

In a twist that could influence the resolution of other pending child welfare cases, an independent accreditation organization – the Council on...

News

Mississippi Yearning

No matter how many problems your child welfare system has, you can usually take solace that you’re not in Mississippi. For years...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Ranch Raises Hopes for Adoptees

The Chicago Tribune The number of “disrupted” international adoptions – in which adoptive parents seek to reverse adoptions and return the children...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Federal Crackdown on Kiddie Porn and Predators

Detroit Free Press Over the past three years, more than 100 men have been prosecuted in U.S. District Court in Eastern Michigan...

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Moving Backward

Georgetown University Health Policy Institution, Center for Children and Families A federal rule issued in August to limit the expansion of state...

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Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007

National Center for Education Statistics The vast majority of the 54.8 million students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade during the 2005-2006...

Research

An Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality and Disparity at the National, State, and County Levels

WestatPublished by the Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in Child WelfareAvailable at www.casey.org/Resources/Publications. This report makes several important new contributions to the...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Street Outreach Goes Suburban

Minneapolis—When outreach worker Amanda Danielson sets out to connect with homeless and runaway youth, she does not walk into the supply room...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Fire Destroys Historic Home

A fire allegedly set by a resident last month destroyed a cottage at a Georgia home that was created for children orphaned...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

TLPs Dangle for Dollars

Talk about holiday headaches: Some programs that help homeless teens might be forced to put youth out of the homes that are...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Highfields Family Group Decision-Making

Lansing, Mich.(517) 887-2762www.highfields.org Objective: Develop a plan to protect children who are referred to the child welfare system by strengthening their families....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

SCHIP Passes its Physical

Just in time to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – and to weigh in on...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Should Foster Kids Give DNA Samples?

Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal Investigators routinely take fingerprints and photographs of children being removed from abusive or neglectful parents, but a task...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Tackling Tobacco

While smoking has decreased significantly among youth since the funding of anti-tobacco programs through the Master Settlement Agreement in 1998, data from...

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Racial Disparity in Foster Care Admissions

Chapin Hall Center for Children Approximately 37 percent of children in foster care are African-American, despite the fact that African-American children make...