Child Welfare Archive
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation yesterday that aims to drastically reduce the number of children placed in group homes as well as the length of time they spend in such placements, part of a package of reforms that will …
Perspective from a Longtime FCNI Social WorkerJamie Stablein, Crisis-Stabilization Foster Care SupervisorEvery year, when I hear from staff that it is time to gather wish lists from our children, youth and families and submit them for Sponsor a Child, I …
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Congress should find more ways to financially support peer networks and advocacy led by current and former foster youth, said a group of young advocates at a briefing held at the …
By: Linda Jacobs Many children experience untold stress during and after a divorce. We know stress can cause undue harm to our mental and physical health. Now we understand through much research that a child’s learning ability is also affected. …
Working with foster children in her private psychotherapy practice in the 1980s, Dr. Toni Heineman realized that the profound effects of trauma and loss experienced by foster children were often exacerbated by another loss: that of their therapists. Seeing too …
In the early 1990s, the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse & Neglect cited the failure of a reporting- investigation approach to prevent child maltreatment and called for the development of a neighborhood- based child protection system. The Board maintained that …
Out-of-county placements and distant placements have a profound effect on children, their parents and the prospects for family reunification. As a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge sitting in dependency for more than 13 years, and Supervising Judge for the last …
For over 100 years the nonprofit National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) has been committed to protecting the safety and well-being of children. We believe in the power of research and evidence to help children and families. We also …
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is set to become the first state agency to conduct risk assessments using predictive analytics, a process that uses huge collections of data to predict outcomes and patterns. It’s the sort of news that, …
By Sara Oon In Michigan, 46 percent of child abuse victims in 2013 suffered from emotional abuse, according to the 2013 report on child abuse and neglect data collected by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. In neighboring …
