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WEBA New Court Ruling Strengthens Their Hand. Born of History: A Tulalip Youth’s Journey to Indigenize Child Welfare. This three-part Imprint series explores a young person’s journey through a tribal foster care system and into a life of advocacy — as well as the challenges a family and the Tulalip Tribes confronted.
Longtime County Official Tapped to Lead L.A. Child Welfare Agency
WEBThe county Board of Supervisors appointed Nichols on Tuesday following a six-month, nationwide search to replace former director Bobby Cagle, who stepped down in December.. The child welfare agency has been one of three safety net departments in L.A. with vacant leaders, along with the Department of Mental Health and the county’s homeless services authority.
Regina Louise's Tale of Searching for Permanency is Ready for …
WEBApr 12, 2019 · Story of My Life: Regina Louise’s Tale of Searching for Permanency is Ready for Primetime. By Kim Phagan-Hansel. Author Regina Louise’s story of her foster care journey is being made into a Lifetime movie premiering April 20 at 8 p.m. EST. Photo courtesy of Regina Louise. The new film “I Am Somebody’s Child: The …
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WEBThe Imprint is an independent daily news outlet focused on the nation’s child welfare and youth justice systems. Since 2013, Imprint reporters have produced rigorous, in-depth reporting on the courts that process these children, youth and families; the agencies paid to serve them; and the housing, economic, mental health and educational issues they face.
NY Homeless Youth Can Now Consent to Their Own Health Care
WEBMinnesota’s Highest Court Sets Out to Better Protect Children. Your support allows The Imprint to provide independent, nonpartisan daily news covering the issues faced by vulnerable children and families. Donate or Subscribe. Under a new law, many more of New York's homeless and runaway youth can now consent to their own health care.
The Juvenile Justice System's Invisible Shackles - The Imprint
WEBAug 14, 2023 · Juvenile Court Fees and Costs Are Invisible Shackles That Tether Children to a Broken System. Miriam Aroni Krinsky is the executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, a former federal prosecutor, and the author of Change from Within: Reimagining the 21st-Century Prosecutor. Joey Orduña Hastings is …
New Bill Would Distinguish Poverty From Child Neglect - The Imprint
WEBJul 28, 2023 · In a 2019 piece in The New Republic, Moore described her experience as an 18-year-old college student and being “temporarily forced to relinquish her own child to relative foster care.” Her legislation, the Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect Act, would require child welfare agencies to provide supportive services to households in need of food, shelter and other basic assistance in order ...
Adoption Archives - The Imprint
WEB3 days ago · This three-part Imprint series explores a young person’s journey through a tribal foster care system and into a life of advocacy — as well as the challenges a family and the Tulalip Tribes confronted. The Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the …
Oversight Ordered After CA County Put Foster Youth in a Juvenile …
WEBJun 29, 2023 · A joint statement released by the two parties described the placement of scores of foster youth at the Warren E. Thornton Youth Center’s jail-like setting in Rosemont as “an attempt at a short-term fix to provide a safe place for youth who had no other place to go.”. The settlement marks “a turning point in Sacramento County, ending a practice of placing children in unlicensed settings ...
It Takes a Movement to Raise an Indian Child - The Imprint
WEBNov 8, 2018 · ICWA's 40th Anniversary: It Takes A Movement to Raise An Indian Child. It Takes a Movement to Raise an Indian Child. By Sarah Kastelic. of this land, countless generations have built a base of wisdom about how to raise our children in community. Last month, a federal district court made an egregious …