Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
STDs Discriminate
New findings dramatically demonstrate how the spread of sexually transmitted diseases differs by age, gender, race and geography. The U.S. Centers for...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Briefly…
Record-Setting Child Support – Before leaving town in January, outgoing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced that...
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► Newsmakers
Bad Form on Welfare Reform
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you – and flies you, and puts you up in a nice hotel. When members...
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Crossroads: New Directions in Social Policy American Public Human Services Association
“The Bush administration and the 107th Congress are presented with a compelling opportunity,” this report begins, “to eliminate outmoded federal rules and...
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, State and Community Substudy
This report, prepared by Abt Associates for HHS, finds that because of the strong economy, more parents working and more left-over TANF...
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Research
Foster Care and Mental Health Mental Health Care Utilization and Expenditures by Children in Foster Care
Jeffrey Harman, Ph.D., George Childs, Kelly Kelleher, M.D., M.P.H. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, November 2000, Vol. 154 Free copy from...
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Research
Linking Spouse and Child Abuse
Emiko Tajima, Ph.D. Child Abuse & Neglect, November 2000, Vol. 24, pp. 1383-98 Free copy from Dr. Tajima at University of Washington...
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Research
Girls and Sports Medical Concerns in the Female Athlete American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness Pediatrics
September 2000, Vol. 106, pp. 610-613 Summary version at www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/septath.htm With all the concern about couch potatoes, let’s start by emphasizing that...
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Snapshots of America’s Families II
The Urban Institute Between 1997 and 1999, the proportion of U.S. children with highly aggravated (“frustrated and stressed”) parents increased, says the...
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Research
Wake Up and Read This
Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Research Council Mary G. Graham, Editor National Academy Press, 2000 Available free...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Restraint Law Reigned In
After two years of wrangling over language involving the use of restraints and seclusion in facilities for children and youth, the Children’s...
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News
When Confidentiality Dies with a Child
Detroit, Mich.—Social workers and Child Protective Services investigators across the nation are adjusting to a new reality – their once confidential cases...
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News
Chopping Block: The Rise And Fall of Title XX
BY SUE BADEAU Title XX, the Social Services Block Grant, is one of the oldest block grant programs to...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
No CHIPs Off the Uninsured Kids Block
Several new reports on changes in public and private health insurance have put a frown on the faces of those striving to...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Joe Camel is Dead, His Spirit Lives
Joe Camel was put to rest 18 months ago, but Big Tobacco’s practice of targeting youth may be alive and well. Since...
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Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth
Who has the most emotional stress? Older teens, rural youth, welfare recipients and Native American youth. Who is most at risk for...
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Research
Girls and Weight Control: Let Them Eat Cake?
Eric Stice, Rebecca Cameron, Chris Hayward, C. Barr Taylor, Joel Killen Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, December 1999, Vol. 67, pgs...
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Research
Does CPS Lead to Incarceration?
Melissa Johnson-Reid and Richard Barth Child Abuse and Neglect, April 2000, Vol. 24, no. 4, pgs. 505-520 Free from Dr. Jonson-Reid, 1...
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News
Got Busted? On Drugs? In a Gang?
Getting arrested for violating the curfew here earns kids a police escort to court – a huge one, with a shiny wood...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Getting By on Crayon Money
Let me ask you something: Have you ever been ashamed of being on welfare? I know I have. I grew up knowing...
