Annie E. Casey Foundation – shared by the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education Every year in the United States, more than 1.6 million young people are forced to navigate their K-12 education while experiencing homelessness, foster care, and/or … Read More
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2024 National Data Toolkit
About This Toolkit With the funding and support of the Hilton Foundation, the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education, a project of the ABA Center on Children and the Law, created this Data Toolkit to encourage child welfare and … Read More
Caught In The Middle: Louisiana Parents, Work, and the Struggle for Affordable Child Care
Nearly 10,000 independent child care businesses across the state employ over 15,000 employees and support tens of thousands of additional employees across all industries by providing early education to their young children. Yet, in 2024, Louisiana’s child care landscape continues … Read More
Louisiana Kinship Navigator
Introduction Kinship Care is the full-time care if children by relatives or others who have a kinship bond with a child and whose parents are not living in the home. You may be a grandparent, an aunt or uncle, sister … Read More
Engaging Black 2SLGBTQIA+Youth in Advocacy
Introduction Welcome to the Engaging Black 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth Implementation Guide. Created between 2020-2023 by the QIC-2SLGBTQIA+ community, this guide is a resource for professionals who are new to, or struggling with, engaging Black 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in their work. There are … Read More
Child Maltreatment
Overview All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories have child abuse and neglect reporting laws that mandate certain professionals and institutions refer suspected maltreatment to a child protective services (CPS) agency. Each state has its own … Read More
Supporting America’s Children and Families Act
On January 4th, the Supporting America’s Children and Families Act was signed into law, reauthorizing and updating Title IV-B of the Social Security Act, a critical child welfare law that supports kinship families outside of child welfare as well. It includes … Read More
Opportunities for State Leaders to Safeguard LGBTQ+ Students’ Learning, Connection, and Safety
Introduction Approximately 2 million young people identified as part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and additional identities (LGBTQ+) community in 2020, and federal data from 2021 show that 1 in 4 high school students identify as lesbian, … Read More
Black Emerging Adults Identify Protective Community Resources That Promote Their Well-being
This brief reports findings from a virtual community mapping study on protective community resources (PCRs). Participants included 12 Black “emerging adults”: seven women and five men, all ages 18 to 25. The study highlights: Emerging adulthood is a period of development between … Read More
Mentorship as a Pathway to Opportunity: A Conversation With Artis Stevens
A Leader Shaped by Community and Mentorship Stevens’ leadership journey began in Brunswick, Georgia, as the youngest of eight children in a family led by a preacher father. Surrounded by examples of community empowerment, Stevens was encouraged to forge his own path … Read More