News
Child Development
- Language Delays Seen in Kids in Institutions Beyond Age 2
- Children in Long-Term Foster Care Suffer High Rates of Behavioral, Emotional Problems
- County’s Baby Elmo Program Reunites Incarcerated Teen Parents with Their Children
- A Discussion on Attachment Relationship and Visitation
- Zeanah Shauffer Dozier Article Just Published
- Truly Grand Parents - Relatives Rise to New Challenge
- Child Abuse Rose During Recession, Research Says
- Child Abuse Cases Increase In Santa Barbara County
- "My Life and Times: A House Is Not a Home"
- Interviews with Baby Elmo Program Pioneers - Trailer
- Interviews with Baby Elmo Program Pioneers - full version
Group Care
- L.A. County Supervisors Order Foster Care Inquiry
- Foster children routinely housed in office waiting room, social worker alleges
- Is group foster care slowly becoming extinct?
- CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO END UNNECESSARY INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CHILDREN
- Congregate Care Will Be Substantially Reduced for Connecticut Foster Children According to DCF Report
- R.I. Children’s Shelters Get Short Reprieve from Budget Ax
- The Good Orphanage Myth Continues
Parenting & Child Care
- Therapeutic Foster Parents Provide Extra Care
- Higher payments may boost foster parent recruitment
- Baby Elmo Article to Be Published in September 2011 Issue of Children and Youth Services Review
- "My Life and Times: A House Is Not a Home"
- PHASE I OF QUALITY PARENTING PROGRAM TO BEGIN IN CALIFORNIA
- Caregiver Recruitment and Retention Project
- Foster kids-turned-moms becoming alarming trend
- Hard to Handle: I needed help with my son, not separation.
- The Toll of Foster Care
Adoption
Policy and Practice
- EXCLUSIVE: Health care system struggles to follow foster kids
- Catholics Fight Illinois Over Foster Care
- Center contributes to reduction of children in foster care in Detroit
- Michele Bachmann’s Foster Care Contradiction
- Federal judge says RI foster care suit may proceed
- Michigan's foster care reforms appear back on track
- Incentives and Cultural Bias Fuel Foster System
- State’s Child, Family Welfare Reforms Collapse
- Arizona Child Protection Program Draws Concern
- W.Va. Family Home-visit Program Gets $3.3M
- California Legislative Alert: S.B. 1214: A Bad Idea for Babies
- 111th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1554 - To amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974...
- Project What!
Youth Law Center - Early Childhood Development Programs
Rehabilitative Program Strengthens Family Bonds
By Vanessa Angiuli - Daily Nexus
Several Santa Barbara County juvenile detention facilities have joined the “Baby Elmo” program, which helps young incarcerated parents develop and maintain relationships with their children while serving their sentences.
Therapeutic Foster Parents Provide Extra Care
By Mike Averill - TULSA WORLD Staff Writer
Because of abuse and neglect, some foster children have emotional or behavioral problems that might be more than a regular foster parent can handle.
EXCLUSIVE: Health care system struggles to follow foster kids
By David Freed - CHCF Center for Health Reporting
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San Marcos resident Patty Boles has taken in more than 100 children during three decades as a foster mom. She specializes in caring for the most medically fragile kids the system has to offer, and has adopted 10 of them.
Sweeping Changes Aim To Get More Foster Children in 'Forever Homes'
By Ellen Meder - News Channel 7
Social Services fixing systemic complacency to get 50 percent more kids in permanent families
COLUMBIA, S.C. --
Right now nearly 1,700 children are waiting to be adopted in South Carolina, but each year, just over 500 find permanent homes. But next year the state’s social services department aims to increase the number of all foster children in permanent, loving homes.