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child welfare

When They First Started Happening

3/26/2024

When They First Started Happening

When they continued happening, they made me feel like I was experiencing everything for the first time, writes Cheyenne Cobb.

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3/25/2024

Be Honest, But Encouraging, with New Child Welfare Workers

After two previous columns on workforce, I have a few final thoughts on how we can recruit talented, committed team members. Though schools of social work were once a source of training and mentoring for aspiring child welfare professionals, some professors are encouraging their students to steer clear of what they perceive as the toxic work. 

Youth Services Insider

3/21/2024

Kin Guardianship Spending Has Skyrocketed Since 2010

A new report on kinship caregiving in America shows that federal spending to help relatives care for the children of loved ones as increased

Youth Services Insider

3/20/2024

Federal Report: Foster Care Total Dropped Again in 2022

The number of youth in foster care has continued to decline, according to the newest data from the U.S. Children's Bureau

Youth Services Insider

3/15/2024

Bill to Remove Federal Requirement to Terminate Parental Rights Resurfaces

A bill that would end federal requirements to seek termination of parental rights in most cases was reintroduced in Congress this week

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New Bill Would Help Foster Youth in Washington, D.C., Keep Federal Benefits

3/11/2024

Bill Tracker: Protecting Benefits for Foster Youth

A regularly updated tracker of state legislative and policy efforts to protect federal benefits for youth in foster care

    Youth Services Insider

    3/7/2024

    New York Gets New Acting Commissioner of State Child Welfare Agency

    Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed DaMia Harris-Madden as acting head of the State Office of Children and Family Services, slated to start April 8.

    3/7/2024

    How An Indigenous Attorney In Minnesota Keeps Trying to Overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act 

    Mark Fiddler has focused much of the past decade on attempts to dismantle the law that aims to preserve Indigenous families and tribes.

    3/6/2024

    New York Child Protection Hotline Accepts Maltreatment Allegations at Far Higher Rates than Other States, New Study Shows

    Hotline calls in New York — even if unfounded — result in a surprise knock on a family’s door far more often than in other states, data shows.