US: ACF's Budget Proposals Invest in Children, Youth, and Families (Includes audio) (Press release) Administration for Children and Families - March 28, 2022 President Biden's fiscal year 2023 budget includes a robust set of proposals that will significantly increase funding and improve quality … [Read more...]

US: Biden Proposes Major Spending Shifts to Prioritize Kin, Foster Care Prevention (Requires subcription) Imprint - March 28, 2022 President Joe Biden's budget proposal includes a plan to fiscally prioritize foster care prevention, and placements with relatives and other kin, over non-relative … [Read more...]

Ukraine: War means tough choices in Ukraine's vast child protection system Reuters - March 28, 2022 Before Russia's invasion, Ukraine had 100,000 children living in nearly 700 state shelters, boarding schools and baby homes, according to U.N. children's agency Unicef. The latest data, shared with … [Read more...]

US: These Children Fled Afghanistan Without Their Families. They're Stuck in U.S. Custody. (Includes video) Propublica - March 25, 2022 Seven months after the fall of Kabul, shelters in the U.S. caring for children evacuated without their parents are experiencing unprecedented violence while … [Read more...]

US: Pandemic Assistance Won't Count Against Foster Youth This Tax Season (Requires subscription) Imprint - March 24, 2022 Current and former foster youth will not have to pay federal income tax on coronavirus pandemic assistance payments, the Internal Revenue Service made clear in a letter to a … [Read more...]

US: Relatives Raising Children: Why is it so Difficult? (Opinion) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Blog - March 24, 2022 Life is harder than it has to be for families where grandparents or other relatives step up to care for children when their parents can't. Our family-supportive … [Read more...]

Ukraine: One month of war leaves more than half of Ukraine's children displaced United Nations News - March 24, 2022 "The war has caused one of the fastest large-scale displacements of children since World War Two," said UNICEF chief Catherine Russell. This includes more than 1.8 million who have … [Read more...]

Ukraine: 'Very chaotic' for perhaps 180,000 'traumatized' orphans in Ukraine Baptist Press - March 18, 2022 The nearly 200,000 orphans in Ukraine are especially traumatized by Russia's invasion that has displaced millions of civilians, according to a Southern Baptist adoption and orphan care … [Read more...]

US: & Ukraine: Former WA Rep. Matt Shea, accused of domestic terrorism, working to secure adoptions for Ukrainian children in Poland (May require subscription) Seattle Times - March 16, 2022 Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned … [Read more...]

US: 7 Ways Meaningful Investment in Child Care and Pre-K Can Help Families (Commentary) Center for Law and Social Policy Blog - March 16, 2022 In outlining an economic package in his State of the Union address, President Biden mentioned the urgency of providing child care for most children from … [Read more...]