First Star Foster Children Issues and News

February 21, 2012
OLYMPIA – Legislators are working to seal the cracks that allow child abuse to go unreported at schools.

February 21, 2012
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Moving ahead with the promise to help prevent and treat child abuse, a Penn State task force has started to marshal the University's research and expertise in these areas.

February 20, 2012
COUNCIL BLUFFS — Every 45 minutes, a child in Iowa faces harm because of child abuse or neglect.

February 17, 2012
Supreme Court Challenge to Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion Puts at Risk a Host of Other Federal-State Programs; Broad Coalition Files Amicus Brief

February 15, 2012
A brain scan study pinpoints the changes associated with child abuse that may raise people's risk of depression, PTSD and addictions later in life.

February 15, 2012
CLC has approximately 120 attorneys. The average caseload size is over 200 children each. Whew!

February 15, 2012
How is it that so many of us understand the level of financial support most grown children require to gain a foothold on the economic ladder these days -- yet states like Florida find new ways to deprive those who don't even have parents to provide such support?

February 14, 2012
David Gagne, taken from his family at 5, waited a year to be put up for adoption and didn't get placed with a foster family until he was 11. Now 19 years old and attending Florida International University, Gagne explained how not having a lawyer kept him stuck in the state system longer than he should have.

February 11, 2012
In courts on both sides of the state line, judges and social workers are facing a grim puzzle: What’s behind a spike in the number of child abuse and neglect cases?

February 12, 2012
While news of the recent death of a 3-year-old Barrow child touches the hearts of many, it is just one incident in a much larger picture, one that challenges communities across Alaska and puts the state in the top five states nationwide for number of children neglected and abused per capita