[Monroe, LA]— The Children’s Coalition of Northeast Louisiana is relaunching the 4th Judicial District Youth Services Planning Board (YSPB), a member-led board of leaders from across Morehouse and Ouachita Parishes dedicated to improving young people’s outcomes. The Board’s mission is … Read More
Safety Permanency & Well-being
Roots of Support Building: Building Infrastructures to Support Children and Families In the Child Welfare System
BUILDING BRIDGES: STRENGTHENING KINSHIP CARE FOR FOSTER YOUTH WITH COMPLEX NEEDS Research is clear that children fare best when they are kept with families. Kinship care, involving placements with relatives or familiar individuals, offers young people the opportunity to remain … Read More
Police in Schools: The Complicated Impact on Students, School Environments, and the Juvenile Courts
Having police officers in schools (school resource officers – SROs) is controversial with a growing debate as their presence has proliferated nationally over the past twenty years. A majority of high schools and middle schools today have police on campus … Read More
The Current State of Youth Homelessness Approaches: Insights and Observations
Introduction As of 2018, researchers have estimated that over 700,000 adolescent minors, or 1 in 30 of the population of 13- to 17-year-olds, have experienced homelessness. These numbers are even more alarming when looking at young adults ages 18-25, of … Read More
Safety by Design for Generative AI: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
Issue Overview Offline and online sexual harms against children have been accelerated by the internet. The child safety ecosystem is already overtaxed. In 2022 reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) contained over 88 million files … Read More
Building Generational Resilience: Supporting BIPOC Grandfamilies and Kinship Families’ Mental Health
Have you ever felt the need to be seen and acknowledged? It’s a universal desire, right?! Unfortunately, the Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) community often doesn’t receive the recognition it deserves, especially concerning mental health and wellness. That’s … Read More
Modernizing Minor Guardianship in State Courts
More than 4% of all children live in kinship care arrangements, where relatives are responsible for children who may or may not have a living biological parent. One such arrangement is commonly known as minor guardianship, where caregivers can petition … Read More
Here’s How Companies Can Show Up for Unconventional Families
An unconventional family, by our definitions, is one that falls outside of the traditional dynamic of a heterosexual couple with biological children. Today, families come in all different varieties. In fact, 80 percent of households in the U.S. have an atypical structure. … Read More
Fostering Responsible Tech Use
Balancing the Benefits and Risks Among Public Child Welfare Agencies Across the country, child welfare agencies work with over 390,000 youth in foster care each year by temporarily placing them in foster homes, facilitating adoption if parental rights are terminated, … Read More
Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
The laws dictating how adoption and guardianship are granted, by which court, and what those options entail are developed at the state and tribal levels, so the intricacies for obtaining these legal relationships differ. The Brief The brief provides general … Read More