May 12, 2012 - FYA's ED Reed Connell, is interviewed for a piece on the realignment of foster care published Friday on The Chronicle of Social Change blog, a project of our friends at Fostering Media Connections. Let's bring that great advocacy home to the counties, everybody. As Assemblymember Holly Mitchell recently said during a hearing, following the impassioned testimony of many former foster youth - "I was about to say that I look forward...Read more »
December 07, 2011 - Thanks to the John Burton Foundation for reporting back from a recent briefing on Child Welfare realignment, conducted by CDSS. Read the text of JBF's weekly email bulletin
July 07, 2011 - Casey Family Programs has just released a new report on Child Welfare in America: Going Beyond the Vision. From their press release: "While remaining focused on its obligation to protect children, the child welfare system has shifted its focus more toward creating stable families and supportive communities as a means toward achieving long-term safety for children.That shift in focus is what "Going Beyond the Vision" is all about. In this report, we examine...Read more »
July 05, 2011 - Well, the anti-climax to Governor Jerry Brown’s showdown with California’s GOP came in the form of a budget, passed and signed last week, that State Controller John Chiang has deemed sufficiently “balanced” to meet the test set out by last year’s Prop 25. Still, no one up there in the Capitol was pulling out the Champagne and cigars, relieved as they must have been to have their pay and expenses reinstated. There was certainly...Read more »
December 09, 2010 - Strengthening Outcomes for Cross-over Youth Transitioning into Adulthood: Lessons Learned from Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice (Webinar) — Date/Time: December 16, 2010, 1:00-2:30 PM E.S.T. This webinar will focus on recommendations as identified in a white paper, Supporting Youth in Transition to Adulthood: Lessons Learned from Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice, sponsored from the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University. Read more »
April 30, 2010 - From the Huffington post, a post by Sidney Goldberg, Founder of Pathways to Development: Improving Foster Care to Provide the Opportunities All Children Deserve. It does not garner the kind of attention as a severely battered child or children left alone in a ramshackle apartment. But the results of a long-term study about "the dismal outlook for youths who are thrust into a shaky adulthood from the foster care system," ("Study...Read more »
April 05, 2010 - ACF to Reissue Program Instructions Some good news from the John Burton Foundation: We have learned from the Office of California Congressman Pete Stark and the American Public Human Services Association that the Administration for Children and Families will reissue its program instructions regarding the federal subsidized guardianship program. The new instructions will allow children in California and 26 other states with existing subsidized guardianship programs to participate in the federal subsidized...Read more »
March 11, 2010 - From Amy Lemley of the John Burton Foundation Double Trouble for THP-Plus: Trigger-List Elimination & $80 Million CWS Budget Reduction Despite the fact that THP-Plus is one of the State’s top performing programs, it faces a double-threat in the State’s budget deliberations: 1. Trigger List Elimination: First, Governor Schwarzenegger has placed THP-Plus on a “trigger list” of programs slated to be eliminated unless the federal government provides $6.9 billion in assistance. 2. $80 million reduction to CWS: Second, THP-Plus...Read more »
February 19, 2010 - Editorial from the Sacramento Bee: Who's Looking Out for the Next Amariana?Read more »
December 10, 2009 - The December 2009/January 2010 issue of CBX highlights youth involvement in child welfare, providing links to reports on how youth in foster care or formerly in care are participating in their own permanency planning and contributing their ideas about ways to improve the child welfare system. Included in the latest CBX are also reports on children's violence exposure and on disaster preparedness, a process for linking birth and foster parents, and the...Read more »
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