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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 (11/13/2009 - 11/20/2009)
CO: Child welfare group hears concerns about state takeover
Journal-Advocate - Nov 18, 2009
... in implementing the procedures even though a report in 2006 stated that small counties were leading the state in child abuse and neglect reporting. ...
IL: Former social worker new child services ombudsman
Chicago Tribune - Nov 16, 2009
... her career as a caseworker, manager and counselor on child and family issues such as custody evaluations, child abuse and neglect and family advocacy. ...
WI: Doyle signs child care bill
Green Bay Press Gazette - Nov 15, 2009
... state to collect money owed under the program when a provider goes out of business and to make public more information about child abuse and neglect. ...
Lawmakers To Focus On Hawaii's Healthy Start Cuts
KITV.com - Nov 15, 2009
Healthy Start aims to reduce child abuse and neglect through comprehensive home visitation, screening and counseling. The House Committee on Human Services ...
Critic defends class-action status in Oklahoma Department of Human Services ...
NewsOK.com - Nov 20, 2009
... its reform will not be possible if an appeals court grants the state's request to decertify a class-action lawsuit against top child welfare officials. ...
AR: Court upholds seizure of kids from Alamo compound
The Associated Press - Nov 18, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Court of Appeals has ruled that state child welfare officials properly seized children from the Tony Alamo Christian ...
Mass. Social Workers Say Commissioner Pushing Too Hard
WBUR - Nov 17, 2009
... in DCF Commissioner Anthony “Angelo” McClain, who testified he feels a sense of urgency to improve child welfare with new systems, rules and procedures. ...
OR: Washington County child welfare ranks last in state performance measurements
OregonLive.com - Nov 16, 2009
In the past 19 of 23 months, performance data from the Oregon Department of Human Services ranked its Washington County child welfare offices dead last. ...
Mich. caseworkers worry about threats from clients
The Associated Press - Nov 16, 2009
... is still short 700 full-time field workers, and that's after the state hired more child welfare caseworkers to comply with a federal court order. ...
Colorado State Researcher Studies American Indian Adoption into White Households
Colorado State University (press release) - Nov 16, 2009
The Indian Adoption Project, a handshake agreement between the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Child Welfare League, ran from 1958-1967 in the United ...
ND: Demand up for licensed social workers
Grand Forks Herald - Nov 15, 2009
The North Dakota Human Services Department funds a child welfare stipend program that encourages students to practice in rural areas. ...
