Report: More than 300 AZ child deaths were likely preventable
November 14, 2014
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) - A state agency is reporting more than 300 deaths of children in Arizona last year didn't have to happen.
Audit finds cracks in Colorado investigations of child abuse, neglect
November 12, 2014
The Colorado Department of Human Services failed to properly supervise county child welfare services as they decided whether allegations of child abuse and neglect merited investigation, a state audit has found.
10 years of protecting, inspiring kids
November 4, 2014
Every day, more than 3,000 of the area's most vulnerable children rely on Community Based Care of Central Florida, the Department of Children and Families, and community partners to keep them safe, heal their pain and be a guiding light toward brighter futures. And every day since 2004, CBC has stepped up to provide the region with crucial foster care, adoption and child-welfare services.
Why the Right to an Education is in Jeopardy
October 23, 2014
Recently the Noble Peace Prize was awarded to the young Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai for her heroic struggle to secure the right for education for all girls in her native Pakistan. In doing so, she has become a voice for children everywhere to be educated.
More transparency, oversight needed for Md. group homes
October 23, 2014
vocates for Children and Youth couldn't agree more with The Sun's view that there needs to be more oversight and transparency for facilities caring for Maryland's disabled foster youth ("More troubled group homes," Oct. 20).
Good news for children when Congress works together
October 21, 2014
While we rarely hear good news these days about Congress, I have some to share. Continuing a long tradition of bipartisan leadership on behalf of abused and neglected children, last month both the House and the Senate passed and the President signed into law the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (H.R. 4980/P.L. 113-183). This new legislation improves the child welfare system to prevent children and youth in foster care from becoming victims of sex trafficking, and protects foster care youth who are already victims. It offers new hope of permanent families for children and extra support for those youth who end up aging out of foster care. The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and many other children's advocates strongly supported this bill, and we applaud Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Sander Levin (D-Mich.), Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Reps. David Reichert (R-Wash.) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) who led the charge in responding to some of our most vulnerable children's needs.
Our view
October 21, 2014
It's beyond comprehension that with the safeguards put into place to protect children, Illinois is seeing the highest numbers of child deaths resulting from abuse and neglect in three decades.
More kids found to be repeatedly abused
October 20, 2014
More New Mexico children are suffering repeated abuse or neglect even after intervention by the state Department of Children, Youth and Families.
Audit questions child abuse recurrence rate in Niagara County
October 20, 2014
A state audit of the Niagara County Office of Child Protective Services found about 14 percent of child abuse cases resulted in a recurrent incident of abuse, more than twice the national average.
Troubles hit Maryland group home for disabled children
October 18, 2014
When state officials removed several disabled foster children from an Anne Arundel County group home in early July — after a 10-year-old boy died there — they placed most of the children with Second Family, a Prince George's County nonprofit that is Maryland's largest contractor for such care.