L.A.’s Vulnerable Kids Caught in the Middle as the “Elephants” of Analytics Fight
“When elephants fight,” the proverb goes, “the grass gets hurt.”
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Dr. Seuss takes over community heroes panel at California ACEs conference
(l to r) Teri Barila, director of the Children’s Resilience Initiative; Dr. Ariane Marie-Mitchell, assistant professor in Loma Linda University Preventive Medicine and Pediatric Depts. (Photo: Jennifer Hossler) ___________________________ Sauntering on stage to the beat of Everyday People by Sly and …
Parenting’s troubled history: Why changing family patterns is our most important work
As we learned from the CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACE Study, negative childhood experiences are often kept secret, downplayed, or repressed because of our powerful desire to put such things behind us. Unfortunately, our minds and our brains don’t work that way. …
In Indiana, Sloppy Casework Carried $31 Million Pricetag
On Oct. 6, 2015, a federal jury in northern Indiana awarded $31.3 million to the Finnegan family of five in their case against the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) officials and an Indiana State Police detective. On Sept. 30, …
I’m Better Than Them
I have learned one important thing about the recovery process. It is never boring. Just when I think I have pieced together my past, I will get a memory back leading me to question how I could possibly forget it. …
I am My Brother’s Keeper: Looking Beyond Grandparents for Kinship Care
Extended family, or kinship care, in Los Angeles continues to be an important resource for maintaining family ties for youth in foster care. As some Millennials (ages 18-35) move into the caregiving realm for their younger siblings, the child welfare …
Report: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBTQ Youth
A report released by the Center for American Progress and the Movement Advancement Project explores the profiling, bias and maltreatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth in the juvenile-justice system. According to the authors of “Unjust: How the …
A ‘Revolution’ in Canada’s Aboriginal Child Welfare System
Recent legislative action addressing the severely adverse outcomes that First Nations children face in Canada’s child welfare system has led to a national discussion.
An Upstream Approach: Using Data-Driven Home Visiting to Prevent Child Abuse
Today, Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors will vote on a motion to move 103 public health nurses from the Department of Children and Family Services to the Department of Public Health. While largely administrative, the development sets the nation’s …
Danger Every Step of the Way: A Harrowing Journey to Europe for Refugee and Migrant Children
From June 14, 2016, UNICEF press release entitled “If you try to run, they shoot you; if you stop working they beat you. It was just like the slave trade.” More than 9 out of 10 refugee and migrant children arriving in …
