OrganismsDiseasesChemicals and DrugsAnalytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and EquipmentPsychiatry and PsychologyAnthropology, Education, Sociology and Social PhenomenaInformation ScienceNamed GroupsHealth CareGeographicals
Foster Home CareChild WelfareChild AbuseChild BehaviorChild, AbandonedObject AttachmentAnimal WelfareSocial WelfareChild CustodySocial Work, PsychiatricChild Health ServicesAdoptionSocial WorkChild Behavior DisordersChild, ExceptionalMental Health ServicesChild CareDisabled ChildrenUnited StatesParentsJuvenile DelinquencyPublic PolicyLongitudinal StudiesCaregiversChild RearingChild, InstitutionalizedAid to Families with Dependent ChildrenChild PsychologyFamilyHealth Services Needs and DemandCommunity Mental Health ServicesInterviews as TopicChild, OrphanedChild of Impaired ParentsDental Care for ChildrenRisk FactorsSubstance-Related DisordersChild Nutrition DisordersChild LanguageStudent DropoutsSocial AdjustmentSchoolsTreatment OutcomeAdolescent BehaviorKansasFlatfishesQuadriplegiaHuman RightsChicagoPsychotropic DrugsFloridaAnger
Foster Home Care: Families who care for neglected children or patients unable to care for themselves.Child Welfare: Organized efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the child.Child Abuse: Abuse of children in a family, institutional, or other setting. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)Child Behavior: Any observable response or action of a child from 24 months through 12 years of age. For neonates or children younger than 24 months, INFANT BEHAVIOR is available.Child, Abandoned: A child or adolescent who is deserted by parents or parent substitutes without regard for its future care.Object Attachment: Emotional attachment to someone or something in the environment.Animal Welfare: The protection of animals in laboratories or other specific environments by promoting their health through better nutrition, housing, and care.Social Welfare: Organized institutions which provide services to ameliorate conditions of need or social pathology in the community.Child Custody: The formally authorized guardianship or care of a CHILD.Social Work, Psychiatric: Use of all social work processes in the treatment of patients in a psychiatric or mental health setting.Child Health Services: Organized services to provide health care for children.Adoption: Voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be as one's own child, usually with legal confirmation.Social Work: The use of community resources, individual case work, or group work to promote the adaptive capacities of individuals in relation to their social and economic environments. It includes social service agencies.Child Behavior Disorders: Disturbances considered to be pathological based on age and stage appropriateness, e.g., conduct disturbances and anaclitic depression. This concept does not include psychoneuroses, psychoses, or personality disorders with fixed patterns.Child, Exceptional: A child whose needs, abilities, or other characteristics vary so much from the average in mental, physical, or social areas that a greater than usual level of services is needed to facilitate the child's maximum potential development.Mental Health Services: Organized services to provide mental health care.Child Care: Care of CHILDREN in the home or in an institution.Disabled Children: Children with mental or physical disabilities that interfere with usual activities of daily living and that may require accommodation or intervention.United StatesParents: Persons functioning as natural, adoptive, or substitute parents. The heading includes the concept of parenthood as well as preparation for becoming a parent.Juvenile Delinquency: The antisocial acts of children or persons under age which are illegal or lawfully interpreted as constituting delinquency.Public Policy: A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions.Longitudinal Studies: Studies in which variables relating to an individual or group of individuals are assessed over a period of time.Caregivers: Persons who provide care to those who need supervision or assistance in illness or disability. They may provide the care in the home, in a hospital, or in an institution. Although caregivers include trained medical, nursing, and other health personnel, the concept also refers to parents, spouses, or other family members, friends, members of the clergy, teachers, social workers, fellow patients.Child Rearing: The training or bringing-up of children by parents or parent-substitutes. It is used also for child rearing practices in different societies, at different economic levels, in different ethnic groups, etc. It differs from PARENTING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the child and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.Child, Institutionalized: A child who is receiving long-term in-patient services or who resides in an institutional setting.Aid to Families with Dependent Children: Financial assistance provided by the government to indigent families with dependent children who meet certain requirements as defined by the Social Security Act, Title IV, in the U.S.Child Psychology: The study of normal and abnormal behavior of children.Family: A social group consisting of parents or parent substitutes and children.Health Services Needs and Demand: Health services required by a population or community as well as the health services that the population or community is able and willing to pay for.Community Mental Health Services: Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive mental health services provided for individuals in the community.Interviews as Topic: Conversations with an individual or individuals held in order to obtain information about their background and other personal biographical data, their attitudes and opinions, etc. It includes school admission or job interviews.Child, Orphaned: Child who has lost both parents through death or desertion.Child of Impaired Parents: Child with one or more parents afflicted by a physical or mental disorder.Dental Care for Children: The giving of attention to the special dental needs of children, including the prevention of tooth diseases and instruction in dental hygiene and dental health. The dental care may include the services provided by dental specialists.Risk Factors: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.Substance-Related Disorders: Disorders related to substance abuse.Child Nutrition Disorders: Disorders caused by nutritional imbalance, either overnutrition or undernutrition, occurring in children ages 2 to 12 years.Child Language: The language and sounds expressed by a child at a particular maturational stage in development.Student Dropouts: Individuals who leave school, secondary or college, prior to completion of specified curriculum requirements.Social Adjustment: Adaptation of the person to the social environment. Adjustment may take place by adapting the self to the environment or by changing the environment. (From Campbell, Psychiatric Dictionary, 1996)Schools: Educational institutions.Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Adolescent Behavior: Any observable response or action of an adolescent.KansasFlatfishes: Common name for the order Pleuronectiformes. A very distinctive group in that during development they become asymmetrical, i.e., one eye migrates to lie adjacent to the other. They swim on the eyeless side. FLOUNDER, sole, and turbot, along with several others, are included in this order.Quadriplegia: Severe or complete loss of motor function in all four limbs which may result from BRAIN DISEASES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; or rarely MUSCULAR DISEASES. The locked-in syndrome is characterized by quadriplegia in combination with cranial muscle paralysis. Consciousness is spared and the only retained voluntary motor activity may be limited eye movements. This condition is usually caused by a lesion in the upper BRAIN STEM which injures the descending cortico-spinal and cortico-bulbar tracts.Human Rights: The rights of the individual to cultural, social, economic, and educational opportunities as provided by society, e.g., right to work, right to education, and right to social security.ChicagoPsychotropic Drugs: A loosely defined grouping of drugs that have effects on psychological function. Here the psychotropic agents include the antidepressive agents, hallucinogens, and tranquilizing agents (including the antipsychotics and anti-anxiety agents).FloridaAnger: A strong emotional feeling of displeasure aroused by being interfered with, injured or threatened.
OrganismsDiseasesChemicals and DrugsAnalytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and EquipmentPsychiatry and PsychologyAnthropology, Education, Sociology and Social PhenomenaInformation ScienceNamed GroupsHealth CareGeographicals
Foster Home CareChild WelfareChild AbuseChild BehaviorChild, AbandonedObject AttachmentAnimal WelfareSocial WelfareChild CustodySocial Work, PsychiatricChild Health ServicesAdoptionSocial WorkChild Behavior DisordersChild, ExceptionalMental Health ServicesChild CareDisabled ChildrenUnited StatesParentsJuvenile DelinquencyPublic PolicyLongitudinal StudiesCaregiversChild RearingChild, InstitutionalizedAid to Families with Dependent ChildrenChild PsychologyFamilyHealth Services Needs and DemandCommunity Mental Health ServicesInterviews as TopicChild, OrphanedChild of Impaired ParentsDental Care for ChildrenRisk FactorsSubstance-Related DisordersChild Nutrition DisordersChild LanguageStudent DropoutsSocial AdjustmentSchoolsTreatment OutcomeAdolescent BehaviorKansasFlatfishesQuadriplegiaHuman RightsChicagoPsychotropic DrugsFloridaAnger
Child TrendsChild Trends
Child Welfare: policies and programs that affect children in and aging out of foster care, adoption, and kinship care. Child ... Child Trends researches: Child Poverty: the effects of poverty on children's development and policies aimed at improving the ... It studies children at all stages of development and aims to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and ... Youth Development: research and evaluation of out-of-school time programs Children of Immigrants: factors affecting children of ...
Social learning (social pedagogy)Social learning (social pedagogy)
According to Nohl, social pedagogy's aim is to foster the wellbeing of student by integrating into society youth initiatives, ... interactions with their children, if their child did not admire them, their children would not reproduce their behaviour as ... Teachers should be advocates for the welfare of their students and contribute to the social transformations it entails. Nohl ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), with his book Emile, or On Education,[7] introduced his pedagogic theory where the child ...
Child protectionChild protection
... child welfare under s.1 and s.44 of the Children and Young Peoples Act 1933 is only distinguished from animal welfare under s.9 ... services aimed at supporting at-risk families so they can remain intact to safeguard and promote the welfare of the child, ... History of Child Protection in America by Kirsten Anderberg, Graduate History Student, 2009) Life In Foster Care Is Like A ... Assaults on children Assaults on children and Cruelty to a child; and Introduction, Working Together to Safeguard Children (HMG ...
Administration for Children and FamiliesAdministration for Children and Families
These programs include assistance with welfare, child support enforcement, adoption assistance, foster care, child care, and ... children, individuals and communities. ACF programs aim to achieve the following: families and individuals empowered to ... Child Welfare Information Gateway Fatherhood Initiative "Insure Kids Now!" Campaign National Child Care Information and ... Office of Child Care (OCC) Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) Children's Bureau (CB) Family and Youth Services Bureau ( ...
Aboriginal child protectionAboriginal child protection
"Declaration on Social and Legal Principles Relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with special reference to foster ... Whether mainstream or aboriginal, child protection agencies tend to be professional and to aim for best practice standards. ... "From Child Welfare to Child, Family and Community Welfare: The Agenda of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples", in Towards Positive ... "From Child Welfare to Child, Family and Community Welfare: The Agenda of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples", in Towards Positive ...
FamilyFamily
Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child or children.[89] In the United States, the ... employment-oriented family policy is part of an overall redesign of welfare states geared to foster "active citizenship", also ... and offset some of the costs of raising children. From many feminist perspectives, family policies should aim at equalising ... Children's rights[edit]. Main article: Children's rights. Children's rights are the human rights of children, with particular ...
Fortitude Valley Child Health CentreFortitude Valley Child Health Centre
The Fortitude Valley Child Health Centre, formerly the Maternal and Child Welfare Clinic, is a two-storey brick structure with ... The introduction of this Act was a turning point in health services for women and children in Queensland. It provided for the ... The policy had four aims: to decrease the death rate of mothers and babies, to increase the birth rate, to increase outback ... the Maternity Act 1922 had been formulated in a social and political context where the issue of fostering and developing a ...
Kimberly RickettsKimberly Ricketts
Rispoli, Michael (September 15, 2009). "N.J. launches campaign aimed at stabilizing lives of foster children". NJ.com. ... CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link) LIVIO, SUSAN K. "Child welfare chief shines in Corzine Cabinet". NorthJersey ... "Casey Family Programs Hires Former New Jersey Child Welfare Leader as Managing Director for Strategic Consulting". www. ... the state made in increasing adoptions out of foster care and establishing children's medical units in each Division of Youth ...
Child labor in the PhilippinesChild labor in the Philippines
... child labor, and child-trafficking, and other modes of development for the children. The Department of Social Welfare and ... Consistent with the PPACL framework, the project Child Labor-Free Barangay aims what the name insinuates: eliminate child labor ... it has continued to move to foster a healthy environment for the children and their families. Pag-Aaral ng Bata para sa ... 603 or the Child and Youth Welfare Code, a codification of different provisions for the well-being of all children. After the ...
SKIP PeruSKIP Peru
SKIP's focus on education is fostered by the holistic work within the welfare programs, which include the whole family unit. ... "The most effective early child development programs provide direct learning experiences to children and families, are targeted ... provide workshops aimed at improving the social abilities of the parents and the psychology departments work with both children ... Children of low income families are a particularly vulnerable population in Peru. 27% of all school age children in Peru are ...
Childrens ombudsmanChildren's ombudsman
In Massachusetts, the Office of the Child Advocate aims to ensure that every child involved with child welfare or juvenile ... and aid regarding at-risk families and foster children in the state. The Maine Child Welfare Services Ombudsman, also known as ... A children's ombudsman, children's commissioner, youth commissioner, child advocate, children's commission, youth ombudsman or ... or children or families involved with child protection or child welfare services. The Office of Child Advocate can provide or ...
Eugenio Garza SadaEugenio Garza Sada
Working for the welfare of their employees helped to foster loyalty to the company. Two years after starting work with the ... He called the school "his ninth child." From that point on, he dedicated a significant amount of his time to the institution, ... He was the fourth of children of Isaac Garza Garza and Consuelo Sada Muguerza de Sada. Both parents came from highly ... However, these activities were criticized as a kind of "white syndicate" (sindicato blanco) aimed at controlling workers and ...
Child and family servicesChild and family services
Metis Child and Family Services Society Save the Children War Child World Vision UNICEF United Family Services Child welfare ... These agencies are usually linked to child welfare departments with broader responsibilities which include foster care and ... These services aim to help expand family resources and support networks. Research suggests that child care is a critical ... Child Care Aware of America (2012). "Parents and the High Cost of Child Care: 2012 Report". Missing or empty ,url= (help) Child ...
Foster Care Independence ActFoster Care Independence Act
"Foster youth transitions to adulthood: A Longitudinal View of Youth Leaving Care". Child Welfare Journal. 80 (6). ,access-date ... The program aims to help foster youth transition out of foster care by encouraging self-sufficiency through funding that will ... One-third of foster youth earn below $6,000 per year, which is well below the national poverty level. Foster youth are more ... "Barriers Facing Foster Care Youth: Local and National Statistics about Emancipating Foster Youth" (PDF). Honoring Emancipated ...
Transitional age youthTransitional age youth
Child Welfare: 23-56. Gardner, Deseree (2008), Youth Aging Out of Foster Care, Identifying strategies and best practices, 2007- ... Dworsky) The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 contains several provisions aimed at ... Foster care is and was intended to be a temporary situation for children, however many children entering foster care, 25-30% ( ... children in the foster care system in the United States, an estimated 24,000 foster youth age out of care each year and attempt ...
Reginald BichaReginald Bicha
Bicha also initiated prevention and permanency objectives aimed at reducing the number of children living in foster care. In ... In 2000, he was selected as a "Title IV-E Child Welfare Scholar" by the University of Minnesota, where he received a master's ... In 2008, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle tapped Bicha to become the first secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and ... Reginald "Reggie" Bicha was the first Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. He is currently the ...
Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families ActPreventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act
The bill would require the case review system to assure that foster children leaving foster care because of having attained age ... The U.S. government maintains a website, Child Welfare Information Gateway, which lists each state's licensed agencies. There ... aimed at recovery of international maintenance. The convention requires countries to set up Central Authorities to coordinate ... Chafee Foster Care Independence Program to ensure that children who are likely to remain in foster care until age 18 have ...
Childrens hearingChildren's hearing
A children's hearing is part of the legal and welfare systems in Scotland; it aims to combine justice and welfare for children ... For a child to be required to attend a Children's Hearing, one or more Section 67 Ground must be relevant to the child. They ... Children's Residential Home, Foster Care, the care of relatives). Panel members also have the powers to issue a warrant when ... "Development of the Children's Hearings System". Children's Hearing Scotland. Retrieved 24 June 2013. - Children's Hearings ...
Senior CorpsSenior Corps
... and accident and liability insurance while working with the child/children. Some Foster Grandparents also receive small tax- ... The Senior Companion Program began as part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and Administration on Aging in ... The three were originally mandated under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 with similar aims. The three programs have ... the Foster Grandparents program enables seniors to interact with and support young children, thus acting as foster grandparents ...
University of Pittsburgh School of Social WorkUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Social Work
The School also administers the statewide Child Welfare Education and Research Programs from the Oakland Campus and the Child ... This new design identified four major areas (concentrations) of study: Children, Youth and Families; Health and Mental Health; ... The program aims to provide students with the skills needed to engage in culturally competent practice with diverse populations ... This Center was created to foster multidisciplinary research on race related social issues, mentor scholars whose research ...
Supporting Healthy Marriage ProjectSupporting Healthy Marriage Project
... marriage programs can increase child well-being and adult happiness and reduce child poverty and welfare dependence. Yet ... "The Future of Children," Princeton-Brookings, Marriage and Child Wellbeing, Volume 15, Number 2, Fall 2005.[7] Horn, Wade. "The ... our proposal seeks to improve child well-being through programs aimed at encouraging responsible fatherhood and healthy ... "By fostering better life decisions and stronger relationship skills, ...
Maternal and Child Health BureauMaternal and Child Health Bureau
Administration of the Title V grant program was initially assigned to the Children's Bureau, giving maternal and child welfare ... The aim of the MCH Training Program is to promote quality health services for families through workforce preparation. Workforce ... CISS projects are intended to increase local service delivery capacity and foster comprehensive, integrated, community service ... to manage the maternal and child health and crippled children's programs (which later evolved into children with special health ...
Childrens Institute of PittsburghChildren's Institute of Pittsburgh
Project STAR places children in adoption, foster care, or respite care situations depending on the child's particular needs. ... Project STAR is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare as an adoption, foster care, and private children and ... Activities aimed toward improving communication skills include: locating sounds, making eye contact, tracking objects, pointing ... child welfare agencies, and families who choose to refer themselves. Project PACT (Parents and Children Together) was created ...
Paul BaltesPaul Baltes
Children and welfare reform: A view from an experimental welfare program in minnesota. Child Development, 73(2), 601-620. ... He also started the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation which aims to advance research in developmental psychology and ... parenting and fostering the development of the next generation. One of the ways that life-span developmental psychologists ... Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 39(1, Serial No. 154). Edler, G. H., Jr. (1974). Children of the ...
Social impact bondSocial impact bond
... contract will increase support for at-risk youth who are involved in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems in ... FFG aims to foster collaboration between all stakeholders - governments, front-line service providers, investors, and those in ... In September, Illinois issued a "Request for Proposal" (RFP), focused on youth engaged in the juvenile justice and/or foster ... Roca, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, and Youth Options Unlimited will also participate in the youth ...
Trade unionTrade union
Child labourers in an Indiana glass works. Trade unions have an objective interest in combating child labour. ... Work, Management and Welfare in Scandinavia. Stockholm: SNS (pp. 155-160) *^ "Trade Union Density" OECD. Accessed: 06 October ... Dubofsky, Melvyn, and Foster Rhea Dulles. Labor in America: A History (2004), textbook, based on earlier textbooks by Dulles. ... The trade unions aim at nothing less than to prevent the reduction of wages below the level that is traditionally maintained in ...
OrganismsDiseasesChemicals and DrugsAnalytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and EquipmentPsychiatry and PsychologyAnthropology, Education, Sociology and Social PhenomenaInformation ScienceNamed GroupsHealth CareGeographicals
Foster Home CareChild WelfareChild AbuseChild BehaviorChild, AbandonedObject AttachmentAnimal WelfareSocial WelfareChild CustodySocial Work, PsychiatricChild Health ServicesAdoptionSocial WorkChild Behavior DisordersChild, ExceptionalMental Health ServicesChild CareDisabled ChildrenUnited StatesParentsJuvenile DelinquencyPublic PolicyLongitudinal StudiesCaregiversChild RearingChild, InstitutionalizedAid to Families with Dependent ChildrenChild PsychologyFamilyHealth Services Needs and DemandCommunity Mental Health ServicesInterviews as TopicChild, OrphanedChild of Impaired ParentsDental Care for ChildrenRisk FactorsSubstance-Related DisordersChild Nutrition DisordersChild LanguageStudent DropoutsSocial AdjustmentSchoolsTreatment OutcomeAdolescent BehaviorKansasFlatfishesQuadriplegiaHuman RightsChicagoPsychotropic DrugsFloridaAnger
Child Custody | Fischer & Van Thiel, LLPChild Custody | Fischer & Van Thiel, LLP
Ideally, joint custody aims to have the maximum involvement of both of the parents in their childrens lives. In joint custody ... and frequent relationship between the child and the other parent, the childs health, safety, and welfare, any history of child ... Foster parents or legal guardians may also be afforded parental rights in certain circumstances. Obligations can also be ... Actress Loses Child Custody Appeal, Children Sent Back to Europe * Actress Loses Child Custody Appeal, Children Sent Back to ...
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Testimony - Tobacco Settlement - National Governors AssociationTestimony - Tobacco Settlement - National Governors Association
... strengthening foster care and child welfare initiatives; and expanding options for early childhood development and Healthy ... An additional $1.45 billion was utilized to create a National Public Education Fund to counter youth tobacco use and educate ... and media campaigns aimed at women of childbearing age. Besides traditional cessation education and counseling, these services ... The settlement prohibits targeting youth in tobacco advertising, including a ban on the use of cartoon or other advertising ...
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Child Trends - WikipediaChild Trends - Wikipedia
Child Welfare: policies and programs that affect children in and aging out of foster care, adoption, and kinship care. Child ... Child Trends researches: Child Poverty: the effects of poverty on childrens development and policies aimed at improving the ... It studies children at all stages of development and aims to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and ... Youth Development: research and evaluation of out-of-school time programs Children of Immigrants: factors affecting children of ...
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Organizations In Support of Children and Families of the Incarcerated - Child Welfare Information GatewayOrganizations In Support of Children and Families of the Incarcerated - Child Welfare Information Gateway
... lists provide contact information and websites for related national and State organizations that offer information about child ... The organization implements initiatives aimed at improving outcomes, fostering resilience, and empowering children of ... Working With Children, Youth, and Families in Permanency Planning. *Working With Children, Youth, and Families After Permanency ... Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway. Organizations that provide services to support and advocate for the children and ...
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Fostering Change initiative invests $1.1M in education, housing, and social supports for young people leaving foster careFostering Change initiative invests $1.1M in education, housing, and social supports for young people leaving foster care
... and social supports for young people leaving foster care. The funding will support projects over the next three years that give ... Vancouver Foundations Fostering Change initiative has approved over $1.1M in grants to local organizations across the lower ... voice to young people affected by the abrupt transition from foster care to adulthood, ... Restorative Aboriginal Child Welfare practices; a Youth Rights Photovoice project by the Society for Children and Youth of ...
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Healthy Counties: Fostering Better Health Outcomes in Children and Older AdultsHealthy Counties: Fostering Better Health Outcomes in Children and Older Adults
NACo case study publication highlights the role counties play in improving health outcomes for children and older adults in ... Upon entry to the Catawba County child welfare system, children undergo a child-specific trauma screening to determine whether ... counseling that aims at addressing the needs of children and adolescents with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other ... The county requires that all mandated child welfare services staff complete a training on child welfare trauma. Staff are ...
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Foster Teens' Risk During Transition - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.govFoster Teens' Risk During Transition - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov
The proposed LINKS intervention marries the goals of child welfare and educational systems. The aims are: a) to determine the ... the focal youth is in either a foster or kinship care home ... the focal youth has been in the home for a minimum of 30 days ( ... with an in-person visit to the foster/kin home during the week of the original session. In addition, youth in the intervention ... Foster Teens Risk During Transition (LINKS). The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed ...
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Suit Against State Foster Care Delivers Another BlowSuit Against State Foster Care Delivers Another Blow
... useful information as possible to both parents and professionals regarding children with special needs, disabilities, and those ... a national child-welfare advocacy group suing the state over the way it treats children in foster care. The suit is aimed at ... a child welfare official in Nevada who specializes in child abuse investigations, compared Michigans child welfare managers to ... years in which children died in foster care. The cases involve:. . A 2-year-old boy beaten and burned to death in a foster home ...
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Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids: report - *GJ LIFESTYLES - fosters.com - Dover, NHDisabled parents face bias, loss of kids: report - *GJ LIFESTYLES - fosters.com - Dover, NH
... said child welfare agencies need to provide more funding and specialized training with the aim of improving services for ... But these children, when they lose their families, have the same type of grief.". Schagrin, the Maryland child-welfare official ... and a child was seriously harmed or died and wed be back to square one," Waters said.. Waters said some child-welfare ... "We know foster care isnt a good place for children to be - they do better with their own parents, at their own home.". Callow ...
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foster care | KERA Newsfoster care | KERA News
A number were aimed at improving the states child welfare system. Failure to do so was not an option. ... Remaking Foster Care: Why A Family Takes On Foster Kids. By Doualy Xaykaothao • May 20, 2015 ... Students range from homeless kids and those who were in foster care or the military to parents raising young children. ... Judge: Texas Foster Care System Violates Childrens Rights. By Emily Ramshaw And Edgar Walters Texas Tribune • Dec 17, 2015 ...
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Home Page | Creating A Medical Home For Children and Youth In Foster CareHome Page | Creating A Medical Home For Children and Youth In Foster Care
Kevin Kelley, MSW (NC DSS , Child Welfare). Mr. Kelley is the Section Chief for the NC Division of Social Services (NCDSS). Mr ... Activity Aim. The aim of this project is to improve the use of social emotional screening rates, referral patterns, and follow ... Deepen the providers understanding of children and adolescents in foster care as children and youth with special health care ... Creating A Medical Home For Children and Youth In Foster Care Toggle navigation ...
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Foster Care and Adoption | JCCFFoster Care and Adoption | JCCF
Child Welfare, Neglect and Abuse, Foster Care and Adoption, Health and Development, Children, Teens and Young Adults ... Sexual Abuse of Children with Disabilities: A National Snapshot. Vera Institute of Justice The report aims to expose the seldom ... Child Welfare, Neglect and Abuse, Foster Care and Adoption, Child Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking of Minors, Crime and Justice ... Child Welfare, Neglect and Abuse, Foster Care and Adoption, Child Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking of Minors, Families and ...
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AIDS Children and Child Welfare: Final Report | ASPEAIDS Children and Child Welfare: Final Report | ASPE
Department of Health and Human Services AIDS Children and Child Welfare Stephen Margolis, Ph.D., Lela Baughman, M.S.W., J. ... Implications for Child Welfare Source, date: Child Welfare LXIII(1):62-73, Jan.-Feb. 1984 Categories: foster care, welfare ... approaches or hypotheses aimed at alleviating the problem. ... AIDS Children and Child Welfare. Stephen Margolis, Ph.D., Lela ... Anderson, G.R. "Children and AIDS: Implications for Child Welfare." Child Welfare, LXIII(1):62-73 (January-February 1984). ...
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The Case When It Comes To Child Protective ServicesThe Case When It Comes To Child Protective Services
This act aimed to transfer kids into foster care more quickly into permanent homes, basically contradicting the goals of ... Unfortunately, the front line defense for innocence and child welfare is failing. Social workers under the Department of Human ... His foster mother noticed and the foster grandfather came over to tell him that his mother wanted him to sit with their ... they would drive by the childs home without asking any questions of their welfare instead of physically checking on a child. ...
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Child-welfare panel: Psychotropic drugs relied on to manage foster kids - Federal JackChild-welfare panel: Psychotropic drugs relied on to manage foster kids - Federal Jack
... was aimed almost exclusively at preventing the reoccurrence of sexually inappropriate behaviors that may have resulted from his ... Child-welfare panel: Psychotropic drugs relied on to manage foster kids. By POPEYE ... A panel of child-welfare experts, including two top administrators from the state Department of Children & Families, examined ... says child welfare authorities too often rely on the potent medications to manage abused and neglected children - but fail to ...
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Evaluation of Respite Care Services - Child Welfare Information GatewayEvaluation of Respite Care Services - Child Welfare Information Gateway
Offers annual reports from a model program that aims to improve outcomes for children in foster care by providing respite care ... Working With Children, Youth, and Families in Permanency Planning. *Working With Children, Youth, and Families After Permanency ... New York Council on Children and Families (2011). Presents findings from the workgroup study to identify issues related to ... Presents results of a survey finding that respite care services reduced the risk for child maltreatment or placement, improved ...
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Call for PresentationsCall for Presentations
Child Welfare, Foster Care, and Adoption Services. *Judicial and Legal Affairs. *Youth and Family Involvement ... The highly competitive selection process aims to select presenters who represent an expertise and mastery of innovative and ... 2018 All rights reserved , National Indian Child Welfare Association - Protecting our Children. Preserving our Culture. , ... The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is dedicated to the well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native ...
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Disabled parents face bias, loss of kidsDisabled parents face bias, loss of kids
... said child welfare agencies need to provide more funding and specialized training with the aim of improving services for ... "We know foster care isnt a good place for children to be -- they do better with their own parents, at their own home." ... the Maryland child-welfare official, said she found parts of the report troubling because they seemed to suggest children were ... Child-welfare experts, responding to the report, said they shared its goals of expanding supports for disabled parents and ...
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Economic Security & Opportunities Workshop | Women In GovernmentEconomic Security & Opportunities Workshop | Women In Government
... and achieving permanency and a sense of community for juveniles in the child welfare and foster care systems, as well as ... KIDS COUNT. Jill Beckwith, Deputy Director of the Rhode Island KIDS COUNT branch, presented a summary of the new KIDS COUNT ... Women legislators from across the country met to discuss policies aimed at encouraging financial literacy, helping families ... the importance of quality foster care and preparation for adulthood, and her work with the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities ...
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8 Child Welfare System | The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth | The National Academies Press8 Child Welfare System | The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth | The National Academies Press
Read chapter 8 Child Welfare System: Adolescence-beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20s-is a critical ... relative to young children, and aimed to support their healthy social development in the foster care system. ... Glossary of Child Welfare Terms as Used in This Report. Child Welfare System. In this report, we use the term "child welfare ... Youth Fostering Change (YFC) is an advocacy program for youth who are currently or formerly involved in the child welfare ...
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Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative - The Annie E. Casey FoundationJim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
... public systems and resources necessary to help young people transition from foster care to adulthood. ... Senior Associate, Youth Engagement. Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative. Sign up to get the latest child welfare news and ... develop solutions aimed ensuring educational success and economic security for young people in or who have experienced foster ... Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative. A national and state-based effort that believes every young person leaving foster ...
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Neglect39
Leaving foster care3
Outcomes for children3
Maltreatment21
Placed in foster care3
System82
Protective Services9
20186
Resilience3
Adulthood7
Aging out of foster care3
Placement10
20163
  • At least 152 million children under 5 years of age worked in 2016, but the figure is underestimated because domestic labour is not counted. (wikipedia.org)
  • We have supported the "Be The Parents" program since 2016 with the aim of contributing to the healthy growth of children waiting to be adopted in child welfare organizations, temporary care facilities and foster homes nationwide. (daewoo.com)
  • And last week, the federal government released its own count from 2016 showing that the foster care population is indeed growing. (dailynews.com)
Services71
Vulnerable children3
Caregivers9
Intervention12
Child's8
  • Psychological abuse, when meeting the child's needs by taking the necessary steps to protect and provide for the child the child's wishes and feelings must be considered when deciding on delivery of the provision that best serves the child's needs. (wikipedia.org)
  • The work also aims to strengthen and support a child's or a young person's own active participation. (hel.fi)
  • CBITS provides mental health screening and a brief standardized series of therapy sessions in schools aimed at reducing a child's symptoms related to existing traumatic experiences and enhancing skills to handle future stresses. (rand.org)
  • The analysis of case law suggests that where foster care providers are able to advance claims to custody or guardianship, they typically rely on attachment or bonding with the child in their care to argue that removal of the child is not in the child's best interests. (thefreelibrary.com)
  • The incomplete picture makes it harder for workers to get a complete understanding of a child's life, and it can make things harder on the child himself. (govtech.com)
  • Early child years deprivations hinder child's expansion and thus eliminating the future feasible generation. (joinsamme.com)
  • During early child years, child's starvation has the most profound unfavorable influence upon child's development in terms of physical, mental and social domain names. (joinsamme.com)
  • Comparative deprivation identified as lack of child's developmental needs that are determined by subculture and culture when the child is located. (joinsamme.com)
Juvenile8
Permanency2
20178
Placements6
Transitioning from foster care1
  • As part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and other investors, the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative is active, in states and in local communities across the nation to increase opportunities for young people who are in or transitioning from foster care. (aecf.org)
Organizations3
Family24
  • Ministry of Children & Family Development, Performance Management Report, Volume 4 (2014) . (vancouverfoundation.ca)
  • The aim of this program is to improve the use of social emotional screening rates, referral patterns, and follow-up in the delivery of care for patients in foster care in pediatric and family practices. (ncafp.com)
  • These laws and policies all work under the DHHS to advocate for family preservation and fund the process of prevention, investigation, prosecution and programs associated with child welfare. (adobe.com)
  • Their use of authority includes: 1) Stating one's purpose and function clearly at all times 2) Supporting and challenging the children and family 3) Expressing feelings. (adobe.com)
  • In the 2003 guidelines it states that caseworkers should 'Earn the respect of the children and family (and gain psychological influence). (adobe.com)
  • Under obtaining parent or caregiver information, it includes: their emotional and physical condition, behavioral history, view of their own child, child-rearing practices, are they a single parent or not, do they have adequate income or are they employed at all, and relationships outside of the family. (adobe.com)
  • In communities across the United States, thousands of young people leave foster care without the support of family or community. (aecf.org)
  • The reported effects on behavioral, social, and emotional problems in children of mothers participating in Legacy compare favorably to other well-known early childhood programs (1): Early Head Start (2), the Infant Health and Development Program (3), home visiting (4), family support programs (5), center-based early education (6) and behavioral parent training (7). (cdc.gov)
  • But, how a leader responds decides when the harm a parent has done - or could do - to a child gives the government license to break a family apart, can gave a profound impact on how many children are brought into foster care. (dailynews.com)
  • While intended to be temporary, children too often linger in foster care for months and years, and while the majority of children leave foster care to a permanent family, too many "age out" of foster care without a permanent family. (childrensdefense.org)
  • Children left with no permanent family or connection with a caring adult have no one to turn to for social, emotional or financial support and face numerous barriers as they struggle to become self-sufficient adults. (childrensdefense.org)
  • The National Conference of State Legislatures convened its first Child Welfare Policy Fellows group this month, an initiative aimed at raising political leadership on family preservation, foster care and adoption in the states. (childrensdefense.org)
  • When was your first contact with the Ministry of Children and Family Development or a Delegated Aboriginal Agency? (google.com)
  • From community and family violence to natural disasters, around one in four youngsters are thought to be affected by trauma. (rand.org)
  • Bolstering the capacity of home visiting (HV) programs to address these significant risk factors has potential to improve child and family outcomes. (pubfacts.com)
  • When removal occurs, every reasonable effort is made to place children with an appropriate family member. (truckeemeadowstomorrow.org)
  • What do we do with a family that looks really good on paper," she asked, but doesn't fit with the children they're caring for? (azcentral.com)
  • In some cases, the family reunification is unsuccessful and requires removal of the child from the home and reentry into care. (deepdyve.com)
  • Child welfare administrators and caseworkers should continue to work toward providing care and ensuring that the child and family are fully prepared for reunification. (deepdyve.com)
  • foster family/residential care) experience is a high-risk group for future adverse outcomes. (dissertations.se)
  • understanding family perspectives of child-related issues provides the basis to improve school outcomes. (nccdglobal.org)
  • Through SB 5404 , the Office of Homeless Youth Prevention will focus on preventing, reducing, and measurably eliminating the number of homeless youth on our streets and focusing on increasing family reunification. (spiders.net)
  • Another photo on display captures the lively collective family of two women who are featured in the museum-Jamie Lee Evans and Jennifer Rodriguez-and illustrates how a group of former foster youth chose each other and intentionally created a family "related by love. (berkeley.edu)
  • In addition, children worldwide live in different living conditions with resources never been equitably distributed to all children according to familial interpersonal, ethnic personality, social economic and region of source, this inequity hampers children development literally, socially and mentally precisely most children who are starving off comparatively usually develop maternal despression symptoms, abuse and family assault. (joinsamme.com)
Initiative4
  • As a result, the American Academy of Pediatrics created an initiative called "Healthy Foster Care America. (ncafp.com)
  • Created in 2001, the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative receives funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and crucial support contributed each year by numerous local funders. (aecf.org)
  • During the pilot of this initiative, youth and men will participate in a training program with ongoing support to increase. (uwm.edu)
  • The Higher Expectations' Two Generation Initiative is a 2-year StriveTogether-funded project that aims to support unemployed or underemployed mothers with young children, by offering intentional and aligned access to workforce training programs, high quality. (uwm.edu)
Reentry3
  • Project Safe Neighborhood: Welcome Home (PSN) and Smart Reentry are innovative initiatives aimed at preventing recidivism among men returning to Milwaukee neighborhoods from state correctional facilities. (uwm.edu)
  • The rate of reentry for children with previous removal experience was much higher (25% vs. 16%), and the time of highest risk for future reentry was shorter (4 vs. 6months, after reunification) compared to children without removal experience. (deepdyve.com)
  • Child behavior, reunification against agency recommendation, and siblings in care increased the odds of reentry. (deepdyve.com)
Poverty3
  • Other children are forced to prostitution, exploited by adults for illegal traffic in children or endangered by poverty and hunger. (wikipedia.org)
  • The effects of conflict-related sexual violence, borne by the survivors and their children, echo across generations through trauma, stigma, poverty, poor health and unwanted pregnancy. (un.org)
  • And we're exploring the connection between poverty and child apprehensions. (google.com)
Prevention15
  • It wasn't until the following year in 1875 that the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was established. (adobe.com)
  • The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP) is offering specialty license tags for purchase in order to raise child abuse awareness. (allmysons.com)
  • The tag costs $35, $20 of which will go to the child abuse prevention fund to support prevention programs across Oklahoma. (allmysons.com)
  • April is Child Abuse Prevention Month! (cccnewyork.org)
  • Read more about Child Abuse Prevention Month in Governor's Cuomo's Proclamation and President Obama's Proclamation . (cccnewyork.org)
  • Although the effectiveness of interventions for prevention and treatment of mental health and behavioral problems in abused and neglected youth is demonstrated through the accumulation of evidence through rigorous and systematic research, it is uncertain whether use of research evidence (URE) by child-serving systems leaders increases the likelihood of evidence- based practice (EBP) implementation and sustainment. (pubfacts.com)
  • The program aims to prevent teens in foster care from becoming pregnant by implementing an evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program and to improve outcomes for pregnant/parenting teens and their children by implementing a practice model based on case review research conducted through the project. (seu.edu)
  • Blue pinwheels decorated the front lawns of CASA of the Coastal Bend and the Nueces County Courthouse on Monday to raise Child Abuse Prevention awareness. (caller.com)
  • Blue pinwheels decorated the front lawn of CASA of the Coastal Bend April 2 to raise Child Abuse Prevention awareness. (caller.com)
  • April is National Child Abuse Prevention month and CASA of the Coastal Bend volunteers gathered at the organization's office on Prescott Street to place more than 700 pinwheels on the front lawn. (caller.com)
  • Isabel Gonzales (left) and Diana Booth place pinwheels on the CASA of the Coastal Bend front lawn as a way to raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention in April. (caller.com)
  • CASA of the Coastal Bend volunteers placed more than 700 pinwheels on the front lawn of the organization's office to reaise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention in April. (caller.com)
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics states that neonatal abstinence syndrome is a public health crisis that is multifactorial, and must be solved with a thoughtful approach focused on prevention, expansion of treatment for women with substance use disorder, and increased funding for child welfare systems to ensure the health of the mother-infant dyad who has been exposed to substance use. (mhanet.com)
  • Nearly ten years after the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was signed into law by President Nixon, President Reagan proclaimed April to be the first National Child Abuse Prevention Month in 1983. (sosillinois.org)
  • By 1984, buttons, stickers, and posters displayed what became the theme of child abuse prevention, "Kids-You can't beat 'em. (sosillinois.org)
Behavioral7
Support17
  • One way that Fostering Change helps support vulnerable young people is through community grants. (vancouverfoundation.ca)
  • Since the problem is relatively new, there are few studies and inadequate data to support, test, or verify approaches or hypotheses aimed at alleviating the problem. (hhs.gov)
  • We will continue our efforts to protect the right to education of low-income children and support them to become global talents. (daewoo.com)
  • Since 2015, POSCO DAEWOO has treated children diagnosed with craniofacial condition to support them regain their regular lifestyle through our "Smile For Children" program. (daewoo.com)
  • Since 2015, we have developed and implemented a medical and educational support program to enhance social development and promote welfare in palm oil farms in the province of Papua, Indonesia. (daewoo.com)
  • We are working to expand understanding about the educational needs of students in foster care and how best to support them throughout the education continuum, from early childhood through higher education. (childrensdefense.org)
  • The present study is part of a knowledge translation project in collaboration with local CWS with the aim to develop, implement, and evaluate Enhanced Academic Support (EAS) for primary school children in CWS. (springer.com)
  • In an effort to support the learning of children in Head Start programs that has been disrupted by the crisis, the bill includes up to $500 million for summer Head Start programs. (hhs.gov)
  • This funding will support states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to child care providers in order to financially support them during the public health crisis. (hhs.gov)
  • CBITS is being implemented in many school districts nationally, with many training and support activities supported by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. (rand.org)
  • Preparation for leaving care and aftercare support, are increasingly important concerns for child care practitioners, policy makers and researchers in the UK. (routledge.com)
  • SCOTUS Brief for Amici Curiae First Star, the National Association of Counsel for Children and Voices for America's Children in Support of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari. (scribd.com)
  • SDRG is providing Manitoba s Healthy Child Manitoba Office (HCMO) with strategic consultation to develop provincial supports for community implementation of Communities That Care (i.e., student survey and technical assistance to provincial staff designated to support CTC implementation) and has contracted with certified CTC trainers to deliver the full series of CTC trainings and technical assistance to four communities selected to pilot CTC in Manitoba. (sdrg.org)
  • Use evidence-based, nonpharmacologic treatment to support the infant, ideally through the Eat, Sleep, Console model, to foster an environment that promotes mother-infant attachment and health outcomes. (mhanet.com)
  • Center divisions include WMU's program to support students from foster care (Seita Scholars), a statewide outreach and training effort, and research activity. (wmich.edu)
  • Additionally , touch is necessary for emotional relationship for the kid that is in charge of creation of brain patten to support discussion behaviors and form basic for later empathy development, therefore , abosute deprival is critical especially to child development and sustainability. (joinsamme.com)
  • For example, studies show that children who also are considered good care of after situations of overlook, despite sufficient supply of food and emotional support, they tend to exhibit signs of mistrust due to perceived deprival (Biller and Solomon, 1996). (joinsamme.com)
Futures1
Mental7
  • A 14-year-old girl diagnosed with depression who hanged herself in foster care after the state failed to address her mental health problems. (bridges4kids.org)
  • For the 26,000 young people who age out of foster care each year , this can lead to poor outcomes - lower prospects for employment, higher rates of incarceration and struggles with mental and physical health. (aecf.org)
  • however, irrespective of mental health diagnosis, maltreated children and adolescents receive more psychotropic medications than comparable populations receiving psychiatric care, suggesting overtreatment. (aappublications.org)
  • Youth with good mental health develop skills and capacities that become the basis for strong communities. (uwm.edu)
  • Marie Iannos is a registered psychologist with 8 years clinical experience in child and adolescent mental health, and research into the health and wellbeing of mothers and children. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Former foster youth Haydée Cuza is now the executive director of a mental health organization in Oakland. (berkeley.edu)
  • The tangible impact of childhood deprivation is in conditions of mental health damage since many incidences of deprivation will be interpreted while threats towards the child, thus causing injury. (joinsamme.com)
Adolescents in foster care1
Emotional1
  • Implementation of the Principle varies between and within jurisdictions, and concerns have been raised about the implementation of the Principle in terms of the physical, emotional and cultural safety of children. (aifs.gov.au)
19971
  • First published in 1997, this timely examination of allowances paid to foster carers demonstrates clear evidence that the nature of foster care is changing. (routledge.com)
Custody5
  • During a 57-day legal battle, before the couple regained custody, they were allowed to visit Mikaela only two to three times a week, for an hour at a time, with a foster parent monitoring. (fosters.com)
  • 5 SAMSHA data also indicates that 75% of those women receiving comprehensive substance abuse treatment have physical custody of one or more children six months after treatment discharge. (cwla.org)
  • 10, 233 children also fell into custody of the state by the end of the year. (allmysons.com)
  • There is a complex interplay of statutes, particularly between child custody, adoption, and child protection, with a panoply of differences as one moves across jurisdictions. (thefreelibrary.com)
  • In the 25 years of its existence, new programs for children with AIDS, migrant children, disabled children, native American children, and those in protective custody have sprung up. (csmonitor.com)
America2
  • The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) and our nearly 900 public and private nonprofit, child-serving member agencies nationwide applaud the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for addressing the issue of methamphetamine (meth) use and its impact on children and on state and tribal child welfare systems serving tribal communities. (cwla.org)
  • A child is abused or neglected every 47 seconds in America. (childrensdefense.org)
Trauma4
Abused and neglected children3
County's1
Program11
  • These results show that Legacy had a positive impact on child behavior when mothers participated in the program. (cdc.gov)
  • It is an evidence-based program whose aim is to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low-income mothers of infants and young children. (cdc.gov)
  • Through this program, professional English teachers administer a systematic learning program, helping children build confidence in English. (daewoo.com)
  • According to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, a child learning center playground is disqualified from participating in an otherwise neutrally available government grant funding program simply because it is connected to a church. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
  • The result of this religious discrimination is to redirect funds that would have gone to the Learning Center's playground to another applicant's implementation that, according to the Missouri department's own criteria, serves the safety and welfare interests of the grant program less effectively. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
  • So, people of religious faith are required to pay a fee that supports the grant program, but they are barred from enjoying the benefits of that program if they enroll their children in a religiously affiliated child learning center or preschool. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
  • The renewal is a chance for regulators to examine issues that may not be captured in a standardized form, said Tanya Abdellatif, senior program manager for the foster care and adoption program run by Southwest Human Development. (azcentral.com)
  • Such a program would not only be good for children and youth, but it would be economically efficient because, all else equal, a single program would produce multiple positive outcomes. (childtrends.org)
  • Infants of mothers using illicit drugs were more likely to suffer substantiated harm and more likely to enter foster care than infants of mothers who were compliant with a methadone program. (biomedsearch.com)
  • Because homeless children have greater needs, this program provides longer hours than usual - six instead of four, and it runs all year instead of nine months. (csmonitor.com)
  • If the program can reach 180,000 more children, it would be ``within striking distance of universal Head Start,'' says Dr. Horn. (csmonitor.com)
State's1
  • Near the end of March, the White House and many state's governing departments issue proclamations to raise awareness and encourage communities to take steps to improve the well-being of children at risk of abuse. (sosillinois.org)
Health21
  • Due to the severe and oftentimes traumatic experiences of many children who end up in the foster care systems, the have a special set of medical and health needs that deserve to be addressed in a comprehensive and routine manner. (ncafp.com)
  • http://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/heal. (ncafp.com)
  • Figure 6-1 illustrates the processes through which laws influence child development and health, and highlights how the environments of children can be altered to reduce adverse exposures or increase protective factors ( Komro, O'Mara, and Wagenaar, 2013 ). (nap.edu)
  • This chapter looks at policies at all levels of government that can affect MEB development and health outcomes in children and youth in the areas of health care and nutrition, economic well-being, risk behavior and injury, and education. (nap.edu)
  • Such recovery and reintegration shall take place in an environment which fosters the health, self-respect and dignity of the child. (scielo.org.za)
  • A doctor gives medical attention to a patient at the Mother and Child Health Center in Mogadishu, Somalia, during a visit by the Secretary-General's Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. (un.org)
  • At any point in the study period, approximately one third of the children were identified as having special health care needs. (mendeley.com)
  • Overall, across 3 years of follow-up data, 50.3% of the children were identified as having special health care needs. (mendeley.com)
  • Boys were significantly more likely than girls to have had special health care needs, and children aged 0 to 2 years at baseline were significantly less likely to have had special health care needs than older children. (mendeley.com)
  • Adopted and foster children were significantly more likely to have had special health care needs than children never placed out of the home. (mendeley.com)
  • This report examines this problem, and reinforces studies by experts and women's rights groups in South Sudan that indicate that child marriage has a significant negative impact on women and girl's realization of key human rights, including their rights to health and education, physical integrity and the right to marry only when they are able and willing to give their free consent. (hrw.org)
  • and the 2008 Child Act provisions that protect children under 18 from early and forced marriages and guarantee them the right to non-discrimination, health, education, life, survival and development, an opinion, and protection from torture, degrading treatment, and abuse. (hrw.org)
  • Perinatal maternal depression (MD), substance use (SU), and intimate partner violence (IPV) are critical public health concerns with significant negative impacts on child development. (pubfacts.com)
  • Health care delivery for maternal-child populations represents a key opportunity for improvement in Missouri. (mhanet.com)
  • Addressing the complex health considerations relating to maternal and child health is important because it provides an opportunity to end preventable deaths among all women, children and adolescents and to greatly improve their health and well-being. (mhanet.com)
  • The bill will increase child health equity by requiring screening for autism and developmental delays for children birth to 3 on Medicaid. (spiders.net)
  • To improve the understanding of brain injury to lay audiences, she has finished collaboration on a series of articles for Exceptional Parent magazine on youth, adolescence, traumatic brain injury and sexual health. (wmich.edu)
  • To improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years. (kerala.gov.in)
  • To enhance the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition and health education. (kerala.gov.in)
  • Over the years, for the proper care, protection and treatment of children below 18 years and to protect the full range of rights such as the right to education, highest standard of health and well-being, protection from abuse and exploitation, among others a series of correctional settings had been set up by Government in Kerala. (kerala.gov.in)
  • In April 2010, we handed over the running of the clinic to the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and changed our focus to transferring animal welfare knowledge and building capacity and responsibility of all animals owners, users and health service providers (including the Park authorities). (thebrooke.org)
19891
  • Adjusting for inflation, federal funding per child in Head Start in 1989 had declined by 10 percent since 1982. (csmonitor.com)
Involvement1
Disproportionately high1
Investigations4
Maternal1
Advocates4
Psychiatric6
Traumatic2
  • The more ACEs a child or adult has experienced, the more negative physical and psychological effects they may develop, according to a trove of recent research that documents the effects of traumatic stress on kids' developing brains and bodies. (chw.org)
  • It is also about providing equal protection to children against very hazardous traumatic brain and head injuries that are particularly likely to occur on playgrounds. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
Systems9
  • Child Trends has conducted evaluation studies of Quality Rating Improvement Systems in such states as Georgia and Minnesota. (wikipedia.org)
  • Few systems are as critical to a community as child welfare. (journalismcenter.org)
  • Monnica Chan, Director of Policy & Research at the New England Board of Higher Education Commission, discussed tuition waiver policies available to youth, particularly those in foster care or justice systems, as well as other policies supporting free education access. (womeningovernment.org)
  • In order to help our sites achieve systems and youth outcomes improvements, we provide tools, strategies, and technical assistance every step along the way. (aecf.org)
  • It seems unlikely that the Federal government will become less involved with the administration of foster care, but the degree of its influence, and the methods by which it will exert influence on State delivery systems, are a subject of debate. (hhs.gov)
  • The Principle exists in legislation and policy in all Australian jurisdictions, and while its importance is recognised in many boards of inquiry and reviews into child protection and justice systems, there are significant concerns about the implementation of the Principle. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Use of Research Evidence and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Youth-Serving Systems. (pubfacts.com)
  • Because the data from the two systems were long kept separate, held separately between local and state agencies, it was a struggle for Rotramel and other non-profit workers in the field to know for sure what, exactly, a child was up against when they first encountered him. (govtech.com)
  • This finding begins to explain the overrepresentation of African-American children in the nation's foster care systems. (cuny.edu)
Implementation2
Country's2
Connections1
  • SB 5740 completes five years of amazing work led by the Mockingbird Society to implement the 'foster care to 21' component of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act passed by Congress in 2008. (spiders.net)
Dignity of the child1
  • Regarding corporal punishment, they recalled that it undermined the dignity of the child in the Committee's opinion, which was backed by scientific evidence. (ohchr.org)
Homeless youth1
  • SB 5404 is a major and welcomed step forward with respect to truly focusing on the needs of homeless youth and young adults. (spiders.net)
Interventions1
  • Taken together, they present a broad framework to look at child adversity across the lifespan and provide useful data to inform and facilitate interventions. (kidsdata.org)