This resource provides thoughts and guidelines for talking about these complex issues of racism and equality in age-appropriate ways with children aged two to five years of age. These are difficult and uncomfortable discussions for which there is no recipe. … Read More
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Education During COVID-19: How Child Welfare Agencies Can Help. Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
ABA Center on Children and the Law. 2020 CLICK HERE
Guidelines for Developing Data Sharing Agreements to Use State Administrative Data for Early Care and Education Research
OPRE Research Brief; 2018-67 Shaw, Sara. Lin, Van-Kim. Maxwell, Kelly. Child Trends. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Child Trends 2018 This resource is intended to provide guidance … Read More
Tags: Child Well-Being, Data, Early Care
Racism and Violence: Using Your Power as a Parent to Support Children Aged Two to Five
This resource provides thoughts and guidelines for talking about these complex issues of racism and equality in age-appropriate ways with children aged two to five years of age. These are difficult and uncomfortable discussions for which there is no recipe. … Read More
Return to Full Capacity: COVID-19 Guidelines for Michigan’s Judiciary.
Michigan has never faced a challenge like COVID-19. The pandemic is not only taking lives and battering our economy, but also challenging the strength of our institutions. From day one, our judiciary has met this challenge with unmatched dedication to … Read More
The Land of Inopportunity: Closing the Childhood Equity Gap for America’s Kids
Where a child grows up can determine their prospects in life more than you might guess. In most states across America, there are stark differences between communities that provide children the childhoods they deserve, and those where childhoods end too … Read More
Tags: Child Well-Being
The Hardest Places to be a Child: Global Childhood Report 2020. Fourth Annual Save the Children Report
For hundreds of millions of children worldwide, childhood has ended too soon. The major reasons include ill-health, malnutrition, exclusion from education, child labor, child marriage, early pregnancy, conflict and extreme violence. This report takes a hard look at these events … Read More
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Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Judicial Bench Book
Collateral consequences are legal disabilities imposed by law that result from a criminal conviction. The laws that spawn these collateral consequences can create social and economic barriers for those with criminal convictions. They are known to adversely affect adoptions, housing, … Read More
Tags: Attorneys, Bench Book, benchbook, Best Practices, Judges, Judicial
Navigating the Unknowns – A Podcast Series
Navigating the Unknowns-speaks to what everyone on Earth is facing now. The Covid-19 Pandemic is bringing never-before-seen changes to daily life. Young children wonder why they cannot see their friends and go to school, teenagers are missing out on rites-of-passage, … Read More
The Land of Inopportunity: Closing the Childhood Equity Gap for America’s Kids: U.S. Complement to the Global Childhood Report 2020
Where a child grows up can determine their prospects in life more than you might guess. In most states across America, there are stark differences between communities that provide children the childhoods they deserve, and those where childhoods end too … Read More
Tags: Child Welfare, Child Well-Being