Child Welfare Archive
Written by David Rettew, University of Vermont There’s been a lot of attention in the media about the number of children taking antipsychotic and other psychiatric medications. The assumption behind most of these stories is that these drugs are being …
Thomas Lee, division director of transition-aged youth services (second to left), shares information on Youth Moving On’s Peer Resource Center with Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Michael Antonovich (right). Looking on are Monique Holguin (left) and Jessica Petrass from Youth …
Written by Leticia Miranda ProPublica, March 26, 2015, 10:32 a.m. In the United States, 16-year-olds can’t vote or buy beer. But there is one place where they are treated as adults: New York state’s criminal justice system. New York is one …
The hotel ballroom in downtown Sacramento was packed. Nearly two hundred youth and child welfare professionals had gathered for an evening of performances by current and former foster youth. When it was her turn at the microphone, fifteen-year-old Sade Daniels …
Understandably, but sometimes incorrectly, families of mentally ill patients think that because serious medical conditions are best treated at a hospital, serious mental health issues are also best treated in the same fashion, at residential facilities or in an out-patient …
By Holden Slattery When New York state school psychologists were tested on their ability to detect child maltreatment and their likelihood to report it to child protection authorities, many displayed knowledge deficits and a reluctance to report. This led Farleigh …
A California-based policy shop is asking for a $30 million expansion of the state’s transitional housing program to serve homeless youth and older foster youth with extra challenges. The John Burton Foundation sent a letter to California Assembly Budget Subcommittee Chair …
by Chuck Jackson Positive youth development (PYD) is the paramount responsibility of all who work in education, after school programs, juvenile justice, treatment, and community programs in North America and abroad. The establishment of universally recognized outcome measures, applicable across …
By Darian Woods New research suggests that supporting foster youths’ transition to adulthood is important to protect against mental illness. Help navigating the administration of life, such as how to buy health insurance, balance a checkbook or prepare for a …
By Sawsan Morrar When Layla Yunus thinks back to her teenage years raising her son Micah, she Photo Credit: California Youth Connection (CYC) reminisces about his first smiles, his first words. But she also thinks back to the despair and …
