Child Welfare Research Data & Publications
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03/28/08
Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign Discussion Guide
Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign Discussion Guide, Case Studies from the Pipeline with discussion questions -
03/04/08
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Campaign Take Action Pyramid
Key immediate action steps for individuals, families, communities, organizations and government agencies to protect and reroute children from the pipeline. -
02/01/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "A Child Next Door May Need Your Help"
The past year has been a tumultuous and uncertain one for many Americans. Each day's headlines brought worrisome news: the collapse of Wall Street; massive home and job losses; and a spreading global economic crisis. We all felt enormous fear and insecurity for our family's and children's futures... -
01/25/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Dr. Bill Cosby's Message to Parents: We Need to Listen"
"Beloved educator, entertainer, and author Dr. Bill Cosby is a man on a mission: turning the Black community around. It's the key theme of his new book, Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors, co-authored with Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint...." -
01/11/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Parent Institute For Quality Education: Solutions That Work"
"At the national summit on the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Crisis convened by the Children's Defense Fund at Howard University in September, we had the opportunity to hear from a number of national experts about solutions that are working to keep at-risk children off the track to prison and on the path to success....." -
10/10/07
America's Cradle to Prison PipelineSM Report
This CDF report documents America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, an urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty and race that puts Black boys at a one in three lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a one in six lifetime risk of the same fate. -
08/01/07
State Factsheets for Grandparents or Other Relatives Raising Children
Kinship care state fact sheet for grandparents and other relatives raising children. Provides information on state-specific data, public policies, and local resources and programs for kinship families. -
05/25/07
Marian Wright Edelman's La Columna Child Watch®: "La detención injustificable de un menor de edad"
¿Qué pasa por la mente de un policía cuando le está poniendo las esposas a un niño? No es una pregunta retórica. El 13 de marzo, un agente de la policía arrestó a Gerard Mungo, Jr., un niño de siete años de edad, en su domicilio en un humilde vecindario afro americano de Baltimore, Maryland. -
04/01/07
Marian Wright Edelman's La Columna Child Watch®: "Hay que proveerles cuidado de salud a todos los niños ahora mismo"
Janneth, de 16 años de edad, Brenda, de 13, y Guadalupe, de 9, tres hermanas que residen justo en las afueras de San Francisco, sufren de condiciones médicas serias. Janneth tiene amigdalitis crónica; Brenda tiene asma; y Guadalupe es severamente anémica. -
03/02/07
14 Components to Support an Effective Child Welfare Workforce
A diagram of the 14 components necessary to support an effective child welfare workforce.
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