All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

• 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...

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  In Their Parents’ Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

  Rita J. Simon, Rhonda M. Roorda Columbia University Press 240 pages. $24.50. Simon and Roorda interviewed 16 sets of parents who adopted...

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  Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope

  Martha B. Straus W.W. Norton and Co. 398 pages. $35. Teenage girls are at greater risk than ever for eating disorders, sexual...

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  I’ve Got This Friend Who … : Advice for Teens and Their Friends on Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Risky Behavior and More

  Edited by Anna Radev Hazelden Publishers 203 pages. $14.95. Six fictitious teens of varied backgrounds discuss problems facing high schoolers, including alcohol,...

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  Web Watch for November 2007

    Child Welfare Adoption Learning Partnerswww.adoptionlearningpartners.org/courses/overview.cfmTwo new online courses at this site aim to educate prospective adoptive parents about a variety of...

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  Pubs and Videos for November 2007

  AFTER SCHOOL Afterschool Style in Practice:25 Skill-Building Meetings for StaffTamara Sniad, Claudia Weisburd, Sarah MelloCenter for Afterschool and Community Education/Foundations Inc.182 pages....

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  Residential Treatment Programs: Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled Youth

  Residential treatment programs operating as wilderness therapy programs, boot camps and academies cite positive outcomes, but there have been numerous allegations regarding...

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  Hitting the MARC: Establishing Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children

  States must raise the rates by which they reimburse foster parents by an average of 36 percent to cover the actual costs...

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  Parent Recruitment and Training: A Crucial Neglected Child Welfare Strategy

  The foster care financing system’s allocation of federal funds shortchanges children in need of loving, permanent families, according to this new report...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Tobacco Sales Down

  Sales of tobacco to underage youth hit an all-time low last year, according to data released last month by the U.S. Substance...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Gadfly Creates Loud Buzz

  Richard Wexler is a little like The Flash, the iconic comic book hero who moves at lightning speed. He swiftly takes on...

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  Press Watch for November 2007

  Log on to these news organization’s websites and search for the headline through the site’s search or archive feature. Child Welfare Foster...

• Research

  Suicide Trends Among Youths and Young Adults 10-24 Years – United States, 1990-2004

  U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5635a2.htm The CDC rang lots of alarms last month in reporting that suicides by youth...

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  What Happened to the Insurance Coverage of Children and Adults in 2006?

  The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation This analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data on health insurance coverage examines the details behind...

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  Human Trafficking of Children in the United States

  U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools This fact sheet describes the nature and extent of the trafficking of...

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  We’ve Got a Gun? Comparing Reports of Adolescents and Their Parents about Household Firearms University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy and Practice

  Guns – especially those found in youths’ own homes – are a leading cause among adolescents of injury and death to themselves...

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  Project Safe Childhood

  http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov This U.S. Department of Justice site provides information for federal, state and local law enforcement officials on investigating and prosecuting Internet...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Higher Education For Ex-Foster Youth

  President Bush last month signed a law that, among other provisions, will help former foster youth get money for college. The College...