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Infants and toddlers are the age group most vulnerable to child abuse and neglect and the largest group of children entering foster care. Just as their brains are undergoing dramatic development, these young children experience maltreatment that can lead ...
A National Report Card on Legal Representation for Abused and Neglected Children
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Third Edition: A Child's Right to Counsel: A National Report Card on Legal Representation for Abused & Neglected Children.First Star. Children's Advocacy Institute.2012
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On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, an Iowa school teacher gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had ...
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This resourceprovides an overview of the Western and Pacific Child Welfare Implementation Center’s (WPIC) framework for achieving sustainable systems change, which emerged from and has been demonstrated through WPIC’s child welfare implementation projects ...
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Making Healthy Choices: A Guide on Psychotropic Medications for Youth in Foster Care – Now Available in SpanishThis guide from the National Resource Center for Youth Development – written specifically for youth in foster care with input from youth and pro ...
American Bar Association Standards of Practice for Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse and Neglect Cases These standards promote quality representation and uniformity of practice throughout the country for parents’ attorneys in child abuse and neg ...
ABA Center for Children and the Law: The National Project to Improve Representation for Parents Involved in the Child Welfare System aims to strengthen representation of parents in the child welfare system. References
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The newest Q&A developed by the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education: How Can Child Welfare Agencies Access Education Records in Compliance with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
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Action Brief: Children at Risk: Optimizing Health in an Era of Reform.NASW Foundation. Social Work Policy Institute.2012
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Addressing the Needs of Multi-System Youth: Strengthening the Connection between Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Georgetown Public Policy Institute's Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) and Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps (RFK) would l ...
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Macon Stewart, one of the author's of this paper, was a recent keynote speaker at the 2012 Together We Can Conference. Georgetown Public Policy Institute's Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) and Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps ...
Book and training curriculum from ABA Center on Children and the Law, http://www.fatherhoodqic.org/ The ABA Center on Children and the Law, as part of the National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System (QIC NRF ...
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The ABA Center on Children and the Law's Health of Court-Involved Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers project is pleased to announce the release of its newest Practice & Policy Brief -- Advocating for Very Young Children in Dependency Proceedings: The Hal ...
HHS and Congressional Actions Could Help Reduce Proportion in Care Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives Statement of Kay Brown, Director Education, Workforce, and In ...
Simple Activities for Children and Adolescents In response to Hurricane Sandy, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) has created these activity sheets, which offer ideas to parents and caregivers on ways to keep children and adolescents ent ...
Alone Without a Home, a new report by the Law Center and the National Network for Youth reveals a disturbing truth: 1.6 million youth experience homelessness without a parent or guardian each year, facing numerous barriers to meeting basic needs. This rep ...
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Each year since 1997, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics has published a report on the well-being of children and families. Pending data availability, the Forum updates all 41 indicators annually on its Web site (http://childstat ...
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Thanks to the recession, 2009 was one of the worst years for poverty in America in more than half a century. The total number of Americans living in poverty hit 43.6 million, the highest level in 51 years and the national poverty rate rose to 14.3 percent ...
America’s Youngest Outcasts 2010 updates a previous report created by The National Center on Family Homelessness titled America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness. Our earlier report, based on 2006 data about the extent of the pr ...