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All posts tagged "Foster Care"
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6.0KOpinionChild Welfare Policy Around Opioids Driven By Ignorance and Arrogance
At first glance, a “research brief” issued in March by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services concerning opioids and child...
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6.6KNewsEvery State’s Extended Foster Care Policies Now Available in New Database
The Juvenile Law Center released a new tool today that could help policymakers and advocates better understand and serve older youth —...
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5.1KFrom the BureausLA Foster Families Suffer As Stipends Are Delayed By Bottleneck in Foster Reform
Destiny Adams was driving on Balboa Boulevard, on the way to visit her two younger sisters, when she got the call.
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2.0KOpinionBig 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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2.8KOpinionMentoring 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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4.7KOpinionLet’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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4.2KOpinionPaths 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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6.2KNewsPowerful 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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12.2KOpinionPittsburgh 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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5.5KOpinionColleges, 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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4.4KOpinionMentoring 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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8.8KOpinionPoor 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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6.5KNewsTrump’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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4.6KOpinionWhat 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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20.1KFrom 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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5.7KOpinionA 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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5.2KOpinionDo 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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3.7KOpinionDon’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.
