April 18, 2014
Colorado has created a website that provides the public with child-protection and child-abuse information for each county, the latest in a series of reforms that follow a number of child deaths in the state.
April 5, 2014 BALTIMORE - Maryland Department of Human Resources (DHR) Secretary Ted Dallas announces the launch of Alternative Response - a new approach for managing low risk reports of alleged child abuse and neglect - in counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The launch of Alternative Response coincides with National Child Abuse Prevention [...]
April 2, 2014
Knowing where to invest early for the best payback is a tricky business for policy makers, but investing in foster children should be a no-brainer. Specialized foster care programs with higher initial investment costs are now showing impressive results and significantly lower total cost than regular foster care, so why aren't we doing it?
April 2, 2014
WASHINGTON - Federal benefits for individual foster youth are routinely used by the vast majority of states to reimburse themselves for the cost of foster care placement. A bill that would have ended the practice in Maryland is unlikely to make it out of either the Senate or House committee to the floor for a vote. To their chagrin, that would effectively end supporters' efforts to enact the legislation until the General Assembly's 2015 session.
March 24, 2014 The advocates, parents and legislators who work toward better results for kids in foster care have good news to report.
March 23, 2014
The babies lived 13 years apart, but they died in almost the same way: shaken to death by men who cared for them.
March 22, 2014
Nubia Barahona was found on Valentine's Day in the flatbed of a pest-control truck. She had been imprisoned and starved, beaten and tortured, then doused in toxic chemicals before her corpse was disposed of in a black garbage bag
THURSDAY, March 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Childhood abuse or neglect could take a lasting toll on physical health, a new study suggests. It found that child maltreatment may trigger long-term hormone problems that increase the risk of obesity, diabetes and other health problems in adulthood.
March 19, 2014 MONTPELIER, Vermont - A month after a Rutland County toddler suffered severe head trauma and died, Vermont senators ended a second committee meeting Wednesday to review state laws protecting children from abuse and heard testimony that changing the laws might not address the problem.
March 19, 2014
When Gov. Jerry Brown announced a new boost in school funding — reversing years of cuts — he tied some strings around the money: districts would be paid more for needy kids and they'd have to come up with plans on how the money would help English-learners and students from low income families or in foster care.