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The Year in Youth Services: A Look Back at Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice in 2013

December 30, 2013
2013 is in the books, readers. All that's left to do is watch the ball drop, sip champagne and sing a song.

In no particular order, here's a look at some of the most notable developments in child welfare and juvenile justice this year: 

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Kentucky cabinet penalized $756,000 for ‘willfully circumventing’ child-abuse open records ruling

December 23, 2013
FRANKFORT, KY. — The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services must pay a $756,000 penalty after it “willfully circumvented” open-records laws by failing to fully release records on child abuse fatalities and near deaths, according to a scathing court order issued Monday. 

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Making sad sense of child abuse

December 23, 2013
When a man in Israel was accused of sexually abusing his young daughter, it was hard for many people to believe—a neighbor reported seeing the girl sitting and drinking hot chocolate with her father every morning, laughing, smiling and looking relaxed. Such cases are not exceptional, however. Children react to sexual and physical abuse in unpredictable ways, making it hard to discern the clues. 

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U.S. child abuse, neglect down for sixth year

December 23, 2013
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The number of U.S. child abuse and neglect victims dropped for the sixth consecutive year in 2012, Department of Health and Human Services officials said.

 

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Child advocates push for more openness in abuse, neglect cases Read more: Child advocates push for

December 8, 2013
When four boys who could not speak or use the bathroom were rescued from a filthy Denver apartment, seven years after three older siblings were taken from the same parents, child protection authorities had this to say:

Nothing.

 

 

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Neag Alumna Kathleen Reardon Receives 2013 UConn Alumni Association Humanitarian Award

November 2013
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Professor Kathleen Kelley Reardon, a 1971 Neag alumna and former UConn associate professor, was awarded the UConn Alumni Association Humanitarian Award at the UConn Alumni Awards in October. 

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