May 30, 2013
NEW YORK -- Every time he combs his hair, Tomas Rios sees the scar. It happened when he was 12 years old, his seventh year in the New York City foster care system. By then, he'd already shuffled through a few different neglectful and violent families. By then, it all felt like routine.
May 28, 2013
Women who experienced childhood abuse, including severe physical or sexual, are at a higher risk of developing a food addiction in adulthood compared to women who did not experience any abuse, according to a new study released Wednesday.
May 22, 2013
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said it best earlier this month: “The incomprehensible evil of child trafficking has to be brought to a halt ... we cannot and must not let these children down.”
May 24, 2013
WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, co-chairs of the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, have introduced the Foster Youth Stamp Act of 2013. This bipartisan legislation will provide for the issuance and sale of a semi-postal stamp by the United States Postal Service to support effective programs targeted at improving permanency outcomes for youth in foster care.
Dr. Claire Pomeroy, is the Dean, School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis, and a one-time foster child.
She put up this wonderful article on HuffingtonPost.com, telling of her remarkable success in the face of the daunting odds many foster children face.
To quote one section:
"The greatness of a society is defined by how it treats its most vulnerable members. By this measure, the U.S. is failing and the cost comes in wasted talent and unfulfilled potential among foster youth. Each of us must care enough to save children one at a time and change the systems to ensure that all children are saved."
Please read the whole article! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claire-pomeroy/foster-care-youththe-face_b_3315119.html
First Star co-founder Peter Samuelson presented this moving and instructive TED Talk on how we all can take our talents and energy and use them for good. He discusses how he got into solving problems for a particularly disadvantaged segment of our society, Foster Children.
May 9, 2013
The Child Abuse Neglect and Reporting Act does not obligate a therapist working for a juvenile defense attorney to disclose communications by the child, even if they contain reveal child abuse or contain threats of violence, the Court of Appeal for this district ruled yesterday.
May 9, 2013
FRANKFORT — A Franklin Circuit Court judge has given the state 30 days to tell the state's two largest newspapers why it redacted and took out information from more than 140 case files of children who have been killed or nearly killed from abuse or neglect.
May 7, 2013
A new study from the University of Notre Dame has found that mothers who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences show an unwillingness to talk with their children about the child's emotional experiences.
May 7,2013
The shorter the intervals between previous child maltreatment incidents, the greater the likelihood that the child will experience abuse or neglect in the future, suggests a new study by a social work professor at the University of Illinois.