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  • Marian Wright Edelman 10/01/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Remembering Varnette Honeywood"
    Artist Varnette Honeywood had a clear vision of how she perceived Black people and families and a gift for sharing her joyful, colorful perspective with the rest of the world. She was a dear friend to the Children's Defense Fund and the illustrator and creator of our beautiful logo for the Black Community Crusade for Children's Leave No Child Behind® movement. Her death in September at age 59 was a sad loss for all of us.
  • 09/30/10
    Relative Foster Care Licensing Waivers in the States: Policies and Possibilities
    On October 7, 2008, the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (Fostering Connections) was signed into law, helping to, among other things, ensure that children in foster care maintain family connections. Fostering Connections clarifies that states may waive non-safety licensing standards on a case-by-case basis in order to eliminate barriers to placing children safely with relatives in licensed homes. In an effort to provide states with critical information as they examine their licensing policies and practices, this document presents background information on licensing for relatives. It also includes an overview of IV–E reimbursement for relative foster homes and information on the current landscape of waivers of foster home licensing standards, as well as recommendations for licensing standards that can help further the goal of maintaining family connections for children in foster care.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 09/24/10
    Child Watch® Column: "As Millions More Children Are Affected By Poverty, Now is the Time for Our Nation to Act"
    Nearly four million more Americans fell into poverty in 2009: 44 million or one in seven of us are unable to meet our basic needs. Worst of all, children, our most vulnerable group, experienced the steepest rise in poverty and the largest single-year increase since the 1960s.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 09/17/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Getting All Children the Schools They Deserve"
    As a new academic year starts, children around the country are going back to school and settling into new classes. Meanwhile, parents, educators, policy experts, and politicians are gearing up again to monitor and measure student learning—and preparing to ask the hard questions about whether or not the children in their care are getting the best possible education.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 09/10/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Jefferson Thomas and the Courage of Children"
    "[Jefferson] Thomas was just a teenager when he became one of the first African-American students to enroll in Little Rock Central High School. Yet even at such a young age, he had the courage to risk his own safety, to defy a governor and a mob, and to walk proudly into that school even though it would have been far easier to give up and turn back. And through this simple act of pursuing an equal education, he and his fellow members of the Little Rock Nine helped open the doors of opportunity for their generation and for those that followed."
  • Marian Wright Edelman 09/03/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Gun Violence and Children: Have We No Shame or Respect for Child Life?"
    . The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) has documented the threat of gun violence against American children for nearly two decades since we learned in a Peter Hart Associates poll undertaken by CDF's Black Community Crusade for Children that the number one concern of Black adults and youths was gun violence. So many in both generations feared they or their children would never reach adulthood because of pervasive gun violence.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 08/27/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Katrina, Five Years Later"
    Five years later, for many of Katrina's children and families home is still not back to the way it was. New roadblocks keep appearing on the road to recovery. The city's resilience is still strong, but challenges remain.
  • Children's Sabbaths cover 08/20/10
    2010 National Observance of Children's Sabbaths Manual, Muslim Section
    Muslim section for the 2010 National Observance of Children's Sabbaths® manual "Blessed to Be a Blessing". This section contains suggested activities to engage your mosque, Islamic center, school, or group in the Children's Sabbaths celebration.
  • Protect Children, Not Guns 2010 08/20/10
    Protect Children, Not Guns 2010
    CDF's Protect Children, Not Guns 2010 is a compilation of the most recent and reliable national and state data on gun violence in America. This report provides the latest statistics on firearm deaths by race, age and manner; highlights state gun violence trends and efforts to prevent child access to guns; dispels common myths about guns; and explains the significance of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on gun ownership.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 08/20/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Children Need Emergency Help in this Deep Recession Now!"
    Children have only one childhood and it is right now. Millions of children in our nation require emergency attention in our recession ravaged economy as poverty, including extreme child poverty, hunger, and homelessness have increased, if irreparable harm is not to be inflicted on them and on our nation's future.
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