Chronicle Of Social Change Archive
In early March, Miriam Yarde started a GoFundMe page to raise $10,000 for the medical bills and living costs that will arise when she receives a life-saving kidney transplant. Less... By Holden Slattery This post CNN Hero Taps Online Donor …
Last year, the federal report Child Maltreatment 2016 found that deaths of children from abuse and neglect increased by more than 7 percent from 2015 to 2016. While this increase may be... By Guest Writer This post A Steady March Toward Child …
This weekend will be a flurry of activity at Atlanta-based Assured Comfort Heating, Air and Plumbing as staff members and other volunteers stuff hundreds of backpacks with goodies for kids... By Kim Phagan-Hansel This post Atlanta Heating and Air Company …
“I told them we were being taken and I didn’t know where we were going and when we were coming back.” That’s how Kaysie, then 14, recalls telling her friends... By Guest Writer This post Defining Moments: How the Foster …
Home visiting, one of the most acclaimed child welfare strategies in recent decades, just got another gold star from researchers, who found new evidence that the program could help prevent... By Michael Fitzgerald This post New Evidence Suggests Home Visiting …
Los Angeles County’s child welfare agency is betting that improved technology and analysis can make its family visitation process more efficient for kids and parents. The county’s Department of Child... By Jeremy Loudenback This post Los Angeles Hopes Tech Investment …
The Justice Department has told Youth Services Insider that the Office of Justice Programs will reduce the Office of Justice Programs’ workforce by nearly 200 positions by October of 2019,... By John Kelly This post Administration Confirms Nearly 200 Job …
Xavier Mountain remembers the last look his adoptive mother gave him before leaving him at a foster youth shelter. It was a look of relief. Mountain first entered the foster... By Guest Writer This post California Bill Would Help More …
On Monday nights, a small group of parents gathers on the campus of the University of California-Davis. Each would give anything not to be there. What binds this group together... By Sara Tiano This post Life After ‘The Life’: Putting …
Four California counties were recognized at the California Foster Youth Education Summit for their efforts to help foster youth get financial aid to attend college, as part of the inaugural... By Sara Tiano This post California Counties Rewarded for Signing …
