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What's new in child welfare?
The following links to selected national news stories were obtained through a Google News search using key terms such as "child welfare" and "child abuse and neglect." The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement assumes no responsibility for the content of the posted news links. If you find inaccuracies in the news articles, we recommend that you contact the author or the local news sources.
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National Child Welfare News Clippings (1/29/2010 - 2/5/2010)
CA: LA County will no longer strive to reunite families
Los Angeles Times -- Feb 4, 2010
If it spent less, the county could use the savings to reduce child abuse and neglect as it saw fit. The policy pivot by Ploehn is likely to be controversial ...
APNewsBreak: US Study Shows Drop in Child Abuse
ABC News - Feb 2, 2010
The findings were contained in the fourth installment of the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, a congressionally mandated study that has ...
Public shown an alternative response to abuse reports
Chillicothe Gazette - Jan 29, 2010
... Children's Services has been using the Alternative Response Program when responding to low- to moderate-risk reports of child abuse and neglect. ...
KY: Panel backs bill to help detect child abuse
Louisville Courier-Journal -- Feb 4 2010
More than half of them previously had come to the attention of child welfare authorities. The newspaper reported that in many cases child-protection ...
RI: Union: Caseworkers' loads too high
Providence Journal - Feb 3, 2010
“Rhode Island should be proud with some of the gains we have made in the child welfare system,” DCYF Director Patricia Martinez told the committee. ...
IL: New Ad Campaign, In It For The Kids, Celebrates Illinois' Foster Parents
PR Newswire (press release) - Feb 3, 2010
3 /PRNewswire/ -- Child welfare officials and advocates, foster parents, and supporters from throughout Illinois will gather tomorrow at 10:30 am at Loyola ...
OR: When children face their parents in court, who suffers?
Statesman Journal - Feb 3, 2010
... who were in the Drowns' home — now ages 14, 16 and 18 — are old enough to consent to their own placement plans, under Oregon child-welfare laws. ...
Conn. sets 1st site for open child welfare trials
Hartford Courant - Feb 2, 2010
AP HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut's judiciary is beginning a pilot program to increase the public's access to juvenile court proceedings. ...
Wisconsin Indian Child Welfare Act: Implications for Chapters 48 and 938 ...
WisBar - Jan 31, 2010
Wisconsin child welfare practices must now give primary consideration to the placement of Indian children within their extended families and tribal ...
IN: Judges hope bill restores say in placing juveniles
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Jan 31, 2010
The tug of war goes back to 2008 when lawmakers passed property tax reform in which the state took over all child welfare costs. ...
A Determined Quest to Bring Adoptive Ties to Foster Teenagers
New York Times - - Jan 30, 2010
Finding an adoptive parent for older children with years in foster care is known in child welfare circles as the toughest challenge. ...
