Most residents throughout California have heard the Sleep Train commercials about the needs of foster youth. Over the radio or on TV, the ads ask for the community to donate school supplies and clothing items […]
A continuing resolution for the first months of fiscal 2013 is all but a certainty, which means federal allocations for juvenile justice (and pretty much all other discretionary youth accounts) are not going to see […]
Wearing an employee badge is the best part of Carolyn Swain’s job. Having been in the foster care system since age 12, she has seen the same badge worn by social workers or county administrators […]
The Department of Health and Human Services has posted the state applications for waivers of Title IV-E foster care funding at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/programs_fund/index.htm#child. Members of the public are invited to review proposals and submit comments on […]
When Victoria Jones aged out of foster care at age 18, she had no job, no money for food and no place to eat Thanksgiving dinner. Jones, the fictitious main character in the best-selling novel […]
Youth Services Insider was able to attend a recent roundtable discussion on prevention the disruption of adoptions involving children in foster care. The conversation started on that subject, but grew to include discussion other aspects […]
The day before Congress went into summer recess on August 3rd, Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) sat down with FMC’s Daniel Heimpel to discuss her experience as a foster mother, the formation of the Congressional Caucus […]
On August 2nd, Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mark Begich (D-Ala.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced the Uninterrupted Scholars Act. The bill would amend education […]
While the nation bemoans a “gridlocked” Congress and Comedy Central’s Messrs. Stewart and Colbert aptly ridicule both Presidential candidates for a disregard of specificity on one hand and hubris on the other, I have borne witness to a very […]
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced last week that they had reached an agreement to provide six months of funding through a continuing resolution (CR) […]
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