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The Urgent Need for Upstream Interventions to Address Youth Homelessness
As we face a national crisis, it’s clear that we need a multifaceted approach to address youth homelessness, writes Thomas ...
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Delayed But Helping Low-Income Families Meet Basic Needs, New York Lawmakers Pass Budget
After a month of budget delays, New York lawmakers have agreed to significant investments in working poor households.
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A Missouri Teen Spent Her Life in Foster Care. Now She’s Fighting the State To Keep Her Baby.
Haily, 15, was determined to keep her daughter from repeating the traumatic childhood in the foster care system she ...
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Federal Child Welfare Staff Reveal Months of Turmoil, Hasty Terminations
A reduction-in-force letter sent to staff of the U.S. Administration for Children and Families on April 1. On a Thursday in late March, department leaders in the U.S. Administration for Children and ...
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NYC’s New Office of Foster Care is Fully Launched and Making Headway, Amid Challenges
Educational needs of foster youth are now being addressed by NYC's new Office of Foster Care, launched in 2023.
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We Need Alignment on Accountability in Child Welfare
When I oversaw South Carolina’s Department of Social Services, the federal government began to promote certain evidence-based services for preventing entries into foster care. But our settlement ...
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