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All posts tagged "Foster Care"
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1.4KNewsHere’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities
The tool's widely-used algorithm may discriminate against people with disabilities or other protected groups.
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3.0KNewsAn accidental experiment during COVID suggests too many children are removed to foster care
Experts warned child abuse would rise during COVID. These researchers found otherwise.
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4.5KGuest Opinion EssayNew York’s mandatory reporter training wants to have it both ways. That’s an improvement.
New York’s new online mandated reporter training course is less awful than its predecessors.
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayA state is being sued for warehousing children with disabilities in foster care
The lawsuit alleges that North Carolina children are isolated in restrictive, clinically inappropriate placements.
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4.0KNewsFor foster youth, new restrictions make abortion access even more difficult
And less than a third of teens in foster care receive birth control information.
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3.7KGuest Opinion EssayYou don’t need a task force to tell you why institutionalized children run
Children run away from out-of-home placements because they are in out-of-home placements. Institutionalization is inherently harmful, inherently traumatic and almost never necessary....
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2.1KFrom the Bureaus‘You’re not alone’: How a California school district created a community for children in foster care
“The program is looking to close the achievement gaps for kids in foster care,” said Jenna Mendez, Corona-Norco Unified School District's foster...
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879GrantsLong-term foster care for unaccompanied migrant children program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Immigrant Children/Youth, Unaccompanied Children, Foster Care, Child/Youth Welfare | Amount: $500,000 - $12,000,000 | Deadline: Nov. 29, 2022
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1.9KNewsQ&A: Beth Tyson on helping kinship families rebuild trust, fight stigma
Psychotherapist Beth Tyson specializes in helping children who are living with relatives who are not their parents, most often grandparents. Often, this...
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1.3KNewsThese foster kids need mental health care. New Mexico is putting them in homeless shelters.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Hours after Jaidryon Platero attempted suicide, an employee of New Mexico’s child welfare agency visited...
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1.2KNewsSocial Security boost will help millions of kids, too
Social Security's cost of living adjustment, otherwise known as the COLA, for 2023 is expected to be around 9% or even higher,...
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3.5KNewsQ&A: Sixto Cancel on prioritizing kinship care for foster youth
Sixto Cancel has truly beat the odds. His innovative approach to leveraging a technology platform geared toward capturing the lived experience of...
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2.9K► PodcastsYouth leaving foster care, juvenile and other systems are aim of Washington housing effort
Implemented in June, HB 1905 establishes a five-year budget of over $5 million to reduce homelessness among those aforementioned groups. Washington’s Office of...
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3.3KNewsDo online adoption “heart galleries” do more harm than good?
Two decades ago, it was common practice for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption to advertise the faces of foster youth seeking...
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864GrantsAt-risk and foster youth transitional living support program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Foster Youth, At-risk Youth, Transitional Living, Youth Services, Youth Welfare, System-involved Youth | Amount: Up to $825,000 | Deadline: Aug. 15,...
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1.4KNews‘From crisis to death’: Probing teen’s last, desperate hours
Y'all here to protect me," the youth asked the officers, beseechingly. "Right?" The 17-year-old's foster father, unable to deal with a teen...
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1.4KNewsNew Mexico child welfare agency gets funding boost
New Mexico’s child protective services department is set to receive a funding boost officials say will be used to improve services for...
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3.3KNewsNew Mexico lags in mandated foster care reforms
Two years after New Mexico agreed to overhaul its foster care system in response to a lawsuit claiming it systematically re-traumatizes children...
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2.6KNewsNew Mexico officials hope to open state’s first safe house for sex trafficked youth
Though popular portrayals of human trafficking tend to conjure ideas of violent kidnappings and cross-border human smuggling, the majority of sexual exploitation...
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5.9KGuest Opinion EssayIn child welfare, if the solution is money, the problem is poverty
In the beginning, the builders of what would become a system of massive intrusion into families, and, ultimately, the separation of millions...
