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All posts tagged "Foster Care"
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayBig Picture Learning Could Help Disrupt the Foster-care-to-prison Pipeline
Humans of Restorative Justice (HORJ) stories highlight the incredible individuals working to build and restore strong relationships in their communities. They are...
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1.4KGrantsChild Welfare System Improvement Grants
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Adoption, Foster Care | Deadline: July 18, 2018 | Amount: $1,000,000 - $1,610,000
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2.8KGuest Opinion EssayMentoring Programs Need to Experiment With What Works Best for Foster Youth
If you work with youth in foster care, you know that every child is unique with specific needs, strengths and opportunities. It...
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4.7KGuest Opinion EssayLet’s Make College Smoother for Students From Foster Care
Young people who’ve been in foster care face some challenging circumstances, but they still hope to go to college just like their...
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4.1KGuest Opinion EssayPaths to Success for Young Parents in Foster Care
Research has shown that adolescent parenthood is far more common among young people in foster care than among their peers in the...
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3.5KNewsAdvocates Express Concern, Hope about Revolutionary Changes to Foster Care System
Recently passed federal legislation is revolutionary in its approach to reorganizing the nation’s foster care system, reform advocates agree, but some are...
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6.1KNewsPowerful Stories Written by Young People Offer Healing Insights, Guide Youth Workers
Desiree Moore, 28, was taken from her home by the Administration for Children’s Services in New York City when she was 17...
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12.1KGuest Opinion EssayPittsburgh Misuses Big Data to Target Poor Children for Abuse Investigations
One massive leak of middle-class Americans’ data seems to have the whole world in an uproar. A firm known as Cambridge Analytica...
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5.4KGuest Opinion EssayColleges, Universities Should Be Pressured to Help Students in Foster Care
Growing up in Flint, Michigan and being a part of the foster care system from age 13 until I aged out at...
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4.4KGuest Opinion EssayMentoring Foster Youth in Rural America Is Harder But Badly Needed
Though mentoring has existed in my community of Dickinson, North Dakota for the past 23 years, youth in foster care, although most...
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8.7KGuest Opinion EssayPoor Kids End Up in Foster Care Because Parents Don’t Get Margin of Error Rich Do
Is this child neglect? A couple takes their two children, ages 14 and 11, with them on an old “waterlogged” boat, five...
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6.4KNewsTrump’s Immigration Policy Pushing Children Into Foster Care
The struggle to reunite a Congolese woman swept up in an immigration crackdown with her little girl — and to reunite countless...
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4.6KGuest Opinion EssayWhat Los Angeles Child Welfare Leader Bobby Cagle Could Learn from Mick Jagger
One of the problems with the whole child welfare debate is that we all say pretty much the same things — but...
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20.0KFrom the FieldHow We Found More Black Foster Parents and Confronted the Racial Disparity in Foster Care
I’ve worked in child welfare for over eight years and, from day one, I’ve been struck by the high numbers of black...
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5.6KGuest Opinion EssayA Plan for Real Reform of Child Welfare Finance – From an Unlikely Source
The so-called Family First Prevention Services Act has been hailed as a radical change in how child welfare is paid for by...
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5.1KGuest Opinion EssayDo Spikes in Foster Care Contribute to More Child Abuse Deaths?
More than 30 years ago, when I was a reporter for a daily newspaper, I was assigned a story about what looked...
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3.6KGuest Opinion EssayDon’t Turn California Child Torture Case Into Discrimination Against Home-schoolers
To the cliché “hard cases make bad law” allow me to add a corollary: Horror-story cases make horrible law.
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3.9KGuest Opinion EssayNot a Foster Child, I Nearly Fell Through the Cracks Between Government and Family
When I turned 18, I thought the only thing that I needed to be happy and successful was to leave the home...
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2.1K► ReportsDisregarding the Best Interest of the Child: License to Discriminate In Child Welfare Services
This brief from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation discusses the troubling state legislative push over the past several years to allow taxpayer-funded...
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4.9KGuest Opinion EssayWhy Do Child Welfare Agencies Keep Demanding Poor People Raise Their Kids ‘Independently’ When No One Else Does?
I’ve just caught up with an excellent 2014 story from ProPublica on how child welfare systems deal with parents who have mental...
