With less than two weeks before the federal program to support home visiting expires, the Senate has introduced a bill that sets up a showdown of sorts with the House…
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Trauma, Opiates and Child Welfare: How Family-Serving Agencies Can Do Better
By all outward appearances, I grew up in a normal American family. My parents had respectable jobs in construction and nursing, a four-bedroom home, family dog and a playhouse my…
After a Series of Foster Care Hackathons, Here’s What Happened Next
Over the past 18 months, four foster care “hackathons” have explored how technology could be optimized to streamline child welfare systems and better serve youth and families. During that time,…
Q&A with GreenLight Fund’s Margaret Hall
The GreenLight Fund is a new kind of funder and nonprofit. This nonprofit venture philanthropy organization was born in 2004 in Boston, as founders Margaret Hall and John Simon wondered,…
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In House, Bitter Argument Over State Match for Home Visiting Funds
In the House Ways and Means Committee, there is bipartisan support for reauthorization of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, a national funding stream that supports…
No Excuse for Leaving Children to Suffer and Die in Abusive Homes
On August 30, the death of seven-year-old Adrian Jones after years of abuse was once again in the news as family members filed suit against the agencies and staff that…
95 Percent of Homeless Youth Who Experienced Sex Trafficking Say They Were Maltreated as Children
The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania recently completed a multi-city research study on the prevalence of sex trafficking among homeless youth, with…
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Bills to Watch: Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice Legislation in 2018
Yesterday, Youth Services Insider hit on the two no-brainer pieces of legislation that Congress should get moving this year when it comes to youth services. Today, we look at the longer…
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