Why Involving Entire Families in Child Protection Cases Can Improve the Lives of Endangered Children
By: Susan Meyers Chandler and Laurie Arial Tochiki Annually, about 435,000 children across the United States are taken away from...
By: Susan Meyers Chandler and Laurie Arial Tochiki Annually, about 435,000 children across the United States are taken away from...
Photo Credit: Reuters WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A "zero tolerance" immigration policy that would prosecute families who attempt to cross the border...
Before the foster youth shadows met their Members of Congress, they gathered as a group for training with the FosterClub....
The federal government spends an estimated $55 billion annually on dealing with the effects of childhood exposure to domestic violence,...
Though young homeless adults make use of available food programs, these support structures still often fail to provide reliable and...
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Children who experience abuse and neglect early in life are more likely to have problems in social relationships and underachieve academically...
The city of San Francisco has more than 7,000 homeless people, and 35% (2,400) of these are women between 20...
The Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth and the Bipartisan Heroin Task Force teamed up to host a dinner highlighting the...
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When you choose to become a foster carer the rewards can be great. Supporting a child through a difficult period...
When low-income parents enroll in Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) state expansion program, their children have considerably better odds of receiving annual...
As a social worker, we spend a good deal of time looking at systems, and systems work means we can’t...
This could be a long and very tedious article. It could be. After all, any communication sent via text message...
Participating in Head Start may help prevent young children from being placed in foster care, finds a national study led...
I used to manage a wonderful multidisciplinary team in East London, who prided themselves on going the extra mile for...
Anyone who works in the social services industry has noticed a growing trend. The number of clients who request that...
In 2015, more than 425,000 children were placed in foster care due to incidents of abuse and neglect. But many...
Photo Credit: Foster Youth In Action In May 2016, Anna Shobe-Wallace, program manager for Louisville Metro Community Services said, “Each...