All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"

• ► Newsmakers

  Newsmakers for February 2002

  Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Wanted: New Words, New Policies

  This just in: “Tween” has been chosen as the 2001 Word-of-the-Year by “Webster’s.” Prepubescent 9- to 12-year-olds are enough of a market...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Press Watch for February 2002

  AdvoCasey This special edition (fall 2001) of the Annie E. Casey Foundation magazine – titled, “Fostered or Forgotten? A Special Report on...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Pubs and Videos for February 2002

  Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...

• Research

  Research of Note for February 2002

  This month’s Research Watch has some good news about teen pregnancy and potentially good news about foster care. Unfortunately, there are worrisome...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Web Watch for February 2002

    Civic Engagement  Community Building Resource Exchangewww.commbuild.org links visitors to a large, regularly updated database of resources and information about innovative and...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Betwixt and Between

  In many people’s minds, welfare teens and teen parents are synonymous. But they’re not. The first group is much larger than the...

• Research

  Just Say No to Lice, but not to Nits

  Lice inspections have become a fact of life in schools and children’s programs across the country, with children required to leave school...

• News

  America’s Longest Free-For-All

  By Celeste Fremon       Los Angeles The Los Angeles Free Clinic opened in 1967 during the Summer of Love, when kids from around the...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Porn Wars

  While reticent to discuss juvenile crime and its prevention, Flores is effusive when it comes to discussing pornography, which he refers to...

• ► Reports

  2001 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being

  By Amy Bracken In some regards, teens are doing better in almost all of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....

• ► Reports

  Prospecting Among the Poor: Welfare Privatization

  By Bill Berkowitz Applied Research Center The California-based Applied Research Center has been one of the most aggressive opponents of welfare reform, saying...

• ► Reports

  State of the Air 2001

  American Lung Association       This report gives a failing grade in air quality to communities that are home to  30 million children...

• News

  When Mom or Dad is Locked Up

  By Amy Bracken    Jessup, Md.—Lowell Gibson lives 15 miles from her nine-year-old son but hasn’t seen him in three years. When...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  National Nonprofits

  Grace Reef, for the past four years director of intergovernmental relations at the Children’s Defense Fund, is moving to Capitol Hill. She’ll...

• ► Reports

  Untapped Potential: State Earned Income Credits and Child Poverty Reduction

    By Amy Bracken This research brief says the federal Earned Income Credit (EIC) lifts 2.5 million children out of poverty, and...

• Research

  Research Watch AIDS and Young Women

  AIDS is a growing threat to women, including teenage girls. A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

• Missing Kids, Lost Caucus

  One of the more active youth-related caucuses is the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus. A bipartisan group listing nearly 150 members on...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Leave No Child (or Family) Behind

  Advocates for broader supports for children, youth and families have a common focal point: President George Bush’s tax cut proposal. Hailed by...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Does Welfare Reform Hurt Teens?

  While researchers unveiled more evidence last month that welfare reform helps poor parents and children in many ways, a dark cloud stands...