US: Feinstein, Merkley, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Raise the Standard of Care for Migrant Children (Press release) Office of Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator for California - October 13, 2021 Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senator Jeff Merkley and a group of their colleagues … [Read more...]

US: Recently Merged National Human Services Organizations Set New Identity (Requires subscription) Imprint - October 13, 2021 At the beginning of 2021, the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and the Council on Accreditation announced a merger, combining the nation's largest trade … [Read more...]

US: Stolen souls and broken promises: Boarding schools are a continuing crisis of colonialism (Opinion) Indian Country Today - October 13, 2021 The relationship between the United States and Indigenous populations has been built on broken promises for the theft of Native land, culture, and … [Read more...]

International: Towards Ending Child Marriage: Global trends and profiles of progress UNICEF - October 13, 2021 Child marriage is widely recognized as a violation of human rights and a hindrance to national development. In committing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the international … [Read more...]

US: Medicaid Managed Care for Foster Care Children and Youth: A Natural Experiment with Little Transparency (Commentary) Georgetown University Center for Children and Families - October 12, 2021 There's a natural experiment underway involving a highly vulnerable population: children and youth in … [Read more...]

US: New Accountability Report Says States Underspending Adoption Savings (Requires subscription) Imprint - October 12, 2021 Thirteen years ago, Congress passed a law that included an enticement to states to spend more money on the front and back end of child welfare. A recent report by the … [Read more...]

US: National Coming Out Day: For many LGBTQ youth in foster care, 'coming out' isn't an option (Opinion) (Includes video) USA Today - October 11, 2021 National Coming Out Day is a celebration of the power of living openly as an LGBTQ+ person. LGBTQ+ people have celebrated this day for 33 years … [Read more...]

US: After Her Own Experience in Foster Care, Maleeka Jihad Works to Keep Families Intact Imprint - October 11, 2021 Foster parents don't know what kind of child is going to come into their home. Sometimes they'll just say, these are the ages that we want, and then everything else is open. Well, … [Read more...]

US: The numbers are - literally - unreal! Chapin Hall adds a "warning label" to a bad graphic about child abuse - but it's still misleading (Opinion) NCCPR Child Welfare Blog - October 11, 2021 About a month ago, I wrote a column for The Imprint calling out several organizations for using a … [Read more...]

US: NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA (Opinion) NCCPR Child Welfare Blog - October 06, 2021 Whatever you call it, the program I am going to discuss today is probably the most sacred cow in American child welfare; the subject of thousands of local news stories across … [Read more...]