Child Welfare Research Data & Publications
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01/26/10
Sample State Legislation for Implementing the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Option
This is a sample of state legislation that can be used for implementing the Kinship Guardianship Assistance option of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act. The federal Kinship Guardianship Assistance option is under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act. -
01/19/10
Child Welfare Financing State Factsheets 2010
2010 state fact sheets on child welfare and financing statistics for each state. Provides information on child abuse and neglect, foster care and sources of child welfare spending. -
12/04/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Is There Still No Room in Our Inn for the Most Famous Poor Baby in History?"
In this holy season of Advent, tens of millions of Christians are waiting for and preparing to celebrate the birthday of the most famous poor baby in history on Christmas Day. Yet that baby – born in a stable after being denied a room in the inn for his birth over 2,000 years ago – might still find "no room" signs in the health care inn in the richest nation on earth in 2009. -
11/20/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "A Thanksgiving Prayer to End Poverty in Our Time"
Thanksgiving is a time when many Americans pause to be grateful for all we have. In the current economic downturn when the gap between rich and poor is at the highest level since the Great Depression and the unemployment rate is 10.2 percent, millions of our neighbors, including many families with children, are struggling hard to count their blessings. -
09/18/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Child Health as a Critical National Security Issue"
In April 2005, a group of scholars at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services published a policy brief on "National Security and U.S. Child Health Policy: The Origins and Continuing Role of Medicaid and EPSDT." -
09/15/09
Written Statement on the Hearing on the Implementation of Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act
The Children's Defense Fund's written statement on the hearing on the implementation of Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the Committee on Ways and Means U.S. House of Representatives -
09/11/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Keeping Children Out of the Pipeline to Prison"
Hundreds of thousands of our nation’s children are being funneled down life paths that lead to arrest, conviction, incarceration and even death. The urgent challenge for each of us and for our nation is to prevent this waste of our children's lives and of our nation's capabilities and future. -
09/04/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Promising Models for Reforming Juvenile Justice Systems"
Nationally, one in three Black boys and one in six Latino boys born in 2001 are at risk of going to prison during their lifetimes. Although boys are more than five times as likely to be incarcerated as girls, the number of girls in the juvenile justice system is significant and growing. -
08/28/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Katrina’s Children— Still Struggling"
Dear President Obama: My name is Jade Windon, 7th grade student at McDonogh 42 Charter School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. President, I write to you expressing how many of our lives continue to be affected today by the storm that happened almost four years ago. Hurricane Katrina devastated the lives of everyone here and in the Gulf Coast region. -
07/31/09
Kinship Navigator Program Overview and Q&A
Q&A that provides information about Kinship Navigator programs and a brief overview of the programs already underway in some states.
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