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网页This three-part Imprint series explores a young person’s journey through a tribal foster care system and into a life of advocacy — as well as the challenges a family and the Tulalip Tribes confronted. The Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program, a ...
APPLA: The Foster Care Exception That Ate the Rule
网页2013年8月15日 · Earlier this week, Youth Services Insider shared a few of the ideas contained in “Our Voice, Their Future,” a set of recommendations for child welfare reform authored by adoptees and former foster youths. One of those recommendations, from Chris Hehn, was to eliminate “Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement,” a plan for youths in care that, on paper, is allowable only in the rare ...
In Surprise, Newsom Calls for an End to California's Youth Prison …
网页With coronavirus pummeling Californians’ health and economy like a modern day plague, few expected a line item buried in an otherwise deficit-driven budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday: After decades of the state running what was once the country’s most vast and notorious youth prison system, the end could be near for the Division of Juvenile Justice.
Three-Part Series: Katie A., California’s Mental Health Mandate
网页2014年11月4日 · California is home to more than nine million children and youth under the age of 18, about 13 percent of minors nationwide. A decade ago, a troubling chasm existed in the mental health services offered to the state’s most vulnerable children and youth: those who were either in foster care, or in danger of entering foster care.
A National Reckoning on Congregate Care | The Imprint
网页2021年12月31日 · Top Stories of 2021: A National Reckoning on Congregate Care. A roundup of some of The Imprint’s most impactful stories from the past year. Last year, The Imprint teamed up with The San Francisco Chronicle to expose California’s use of out-of-state residential facilities to house youth in foster care or on juvenile probation.
A Complete Guide to The Family First Act - The Imprint
网页The Family First Act is aimed at amending the IV-E entitlement to provide more federal resources to help families in crisis stay together, and limit federal funds for putting foster youth into congregate care placements, including group homes. The law includes several other child welfare-related updates to federal policy. So what is actually in ...
Northern California Siblings Receive Foster Care Abuse Trial Award ...
网页2023年12月7日 · A jury in Northern California has awarded nearly $25 million to three siblings who were sexually abused by a foster parent, compensation that attorneys for the children describe as some measure of accountability for the assaults they suffered.
Addressing Systemic Racism in Our Child Welfare System - The …
网页2020年9月15日 · Addressing Systemic Racism in Our Child Welfare System. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Bryan Samuels is the executive director of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and the former commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, a division …
Regina Louise's Tale of Searching for Permanency is Ready for …
网页2019年4月12日 · Story of My Life: Regina Louise’s Tale of Searching for Permanency is Ready for Primetime. By Kim Phagan-Hansel. Author Regina Louise’s story of her foster care journey is being made into a Lifetime movie premiering April 20 at 8 p.m. EST. Photo courtesy of Regina Louise. The new film “I Am Somebody’s Child: The …
Civil Rights Committee to Examine New York's Child ... - The Imprint
网页2022年9月30日 · Protesters rallied in support of parents’ rights in New York City in October. Photo by Hirám Duran. An influential federal civil rights commission approved a plan this week to investigate possible violations of Black families’ civil and constitutional rights by the New York child welfare system.