Youth Share Firsthand Accounts of Life in Group Homes
Oct 4, 2024 · The new report expands on an earlier version released in 2018 that focused solely on juvenile justice facilities. The recent installment adds insight into facilities for foster youth …
First-ever Oral Histories of Indian Boarding School Survivors
Oct 11, 2024 · The first-of-its-kind oral history project, underway since March, receives and archives these memories. Three historians and a team of an additional 10 to 12 people have …
Washington State's Plan for Incarcerated Youth Receives Backlash
Green Hill School in Chehalis, the state’s largest youth facility of its type, is supposed to rehabilitate teen offenders. But it has instead been mired in overpopulation, violence and …
New Legal Help for Minneapolis Parents, Before Children are Taken
Oct 16, 2024 · The 1-year-old project in Hennepin County is among the newest prepetition legal representation programs popping up across the country, part of growing efforts to provide legal …
Texas Moves Toward Case Management Overhaul
Dec 3, 2024 · Just before the Obama administration called it a day, it issued a plan by which states could get 50 cents on the dollar to overhaul their child welfare information and case …
NY Officials Get an Earful on Hazards of CPS Hotline Practices
According to a March report released by NYC Family Policy Project, half of all hotline calls nationwide are “screened out,” or determined to fall short of requiring a CPS visit. But in New …
Treatment Foster Care for Kinship Care Settings | The Imprint
Dec 2, 2024 · The Argument. While many child welfare systems have increased reliance on kin and lowered the use of congregate care, Adams writes, more youth could avoid group care …
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The Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program, a group of seven young people that experienced …
Common Ground Is The Only Political Path for Child Welfare
Dec 2, 2024 · Last summer, a distraught 12-year-old just returning to foster care after a month on the run looked me straight in the eyes as I was utterly failing to explain why child protective …
Federal Lawmakers Want to Track ‘Hidden Foster Care’
Senators John Cornyn and Jon Ossoff want more attention paid to the informal diversion of kids from foster care. Legislation now before Congress seeks better accounting of “hidden foster …