Child Welfare Archive
When the Washington Post carried a story by Brigid Schulte about the new Institute of Medicine report New Directions In Child Abuse and Neglect Research, Ed Tronick, Ph.D., psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, wrote to her about his research …
International adoptions have made headlines over the last few months with the cruel political gamesmanship going on in Russia right now. It’s nothing more than using orphaned children as pawns in a high stakes poker game with the United States. …
The recent news coverage of a Utah 9th grader who was banned from school for two days because her red hair coloring (which was all natural tones by the way) didn’t meet the school’s natural colors only hair code got me thinking. …
Happy Valentines Day! Today is a day focusing on love and affection. On sharing with and being there for others, and a day full of cuddling for many romantics. In this case, let’s cuddle with John Stamos, or more …
I came across an article written by Frank Eltman from the Associated Press where he discusses the life experiences of Katie Beers, and the release of Buried Memories: Katie Beers’ Story, she co-wrote with Carolyn Gusoff. The novel discusses the ordeal Beers …
As a follow-up to a previous article on youth in the child welfare system and overuse of psychotropic medications, Imagine Giving an Infant A Psychiatric Drug, here are some highlights from the December 2012 Government Accountability Office’s Congressional report on …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions I cannot imagine any circumstance in which an infant age one or under would ever be prescribed an anti-anxiety medication, let alone one in the benzodiazepine family. I cannot even imagine …
By Michelle Sicignano, LMSW SJS Staff Writer I had an opportunity to interview The President and CEO of Children’s Village, Dr. Jeremy Kohomban, a noted expert in child welfare. He “most recently received the 2011 Samuel Gerson Nordlinger Child Welfare …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW While we institute Core Curriculum standards across the nation, “12,000 special education teachers and aides could lose their jobs if automatic cuts in federal special education grants to states go through” as they are slated to …
The United States Justice Department took one step forward in the fight against the criminalization of marginalized youth this past Wednesday by filing a law suit “claiming that the due process rights of children are “repeatedly and routinely” violated when …
