February 4, 2015
PHOENIX -- Arizona's neglect of children in foster care "shocks the conscience" and amounts to official apathy toward the plight of nearly 17,000 children, a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court alleges
February 4, 2015
Young Minds Advocacy Project
According to the most recent numbers (July 2014) shared by the California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP) at UC Berkeley, almost one in five California foster youth (13,147 out of 66,604) were sent to placements (a foster home, group home, etc.) across county lines or “out-of-county.”
February 4, 2014
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today welcomed Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan as the new co-chair of the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth.
February 4, 2015
The Arizona child welfare system has been accused of failing to provide youths in foster care with adequate medical and dental care as well as needed therapeutic housing, in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of 10 children.
February 4, 2015
ALBANY, N.Y. - Data show one-quarter of New York youths aging out of foster care will be homeless within four years and half will be unemployed at age 24.
February 2, 2015
Montgomery County Public Schools officials are recommending a comprehensive overhaul of the district's policy and regulations concerning the prevention and reporting of child abuse and neglect.
January 31, 2015
Two bills that would lengthen the time Maryland holds on to the records of unproven cases of child abuse and neglect are getting broad support from state officials and children's advocacy groups.
January 29, 2015
A new United Way report shows how to identify the young adults most likely to become homeless in their first year out of foster care - and how to keep them off the streets.
January 27, 2015
Kids put in institutions have different brain compositions than kids in foster care
Childhood neglect leads to harmful changes in the brain, a new study says.
January 27, 2015
A new report released Tuesday finds that the United States government is falling woefully short in its attempts to keep the nation's youngest residents safe. But despite the bleak picture, experts say that programs at the local level, combined with better data collection and tighter federal oversight, could reduce the number of cases of abuse and neglect.