Chronicle Of Social Change Archive
After a two-year fight, the California legislature adopted a $31 million budget item that is aimed at providing child care services to caregivers who are taking in young children involved with the state’s foster care system. Passed by legislators on …
At a meeting of the Los Angeles County Children’s Commission on Monday, several Los Angeles County agencies and advocates described the impact of tightening federal immigration policies on children and families in the county. According to Isabel Sanchez, an advocate …
In February of 2016, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (DTFA) found out it was in line to become part of one of the biggest philanthropic investments in the history of youth services. After more than a year of planning, …
About 20 years ago, Leslie Acoca was sitting in a California courtroom, waiting to testify as an expert witness in court. What she saw changed the course of her life. That day, Acoca watched a young woman, barely five feet tall …
Amy is a 38-year-old single foster parent living in Los Angeles County. She’s learned a lot about how to make it work on one income in an expensive city while working as a teacher and navigating the ever-changing landscape that is …
Just a week into his new position, Wyoming Department of Families Services Director Tom Forslund, the new director of the Wyoming Department of Family Services (DFS), signed himself up for a year and a half of overseeing not one, but …
A boy in Missouri’s foster care system known as M.B. was placed on six psychotropic drugs at once by the age of 12. During his two and half years in care, M.B.was placed in eight different placements and was prescribed a dizzying …
I’ve always considered myself to be a liberal, and a left-leaning one at that. As a liberal, I believe that government has the ability and the obligation to protect all of its citizens from suffering. I believe this obligation is …
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is considering creating a “family justice center” to assist children in the county who have been involved with the foster care and juvenile justice systems as well others affected by domestic, sexual and …
According to a leading group of children’s advocates, it’s not enough to just study the impact of childhood trauma and how we can lessen its toll on children and adults later in life. Armed with new data, researchers from Center for the Study …
