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As more and more grandparents step up to parent grandchildren, especially in the wake of the current opioid crisis, several organizations are teaming up to create a unique voice and... By Kim Phagan-Hansel This post Partnership Aims to Strengthen Network …
The Portland-based mentoring nonprofit Friends of the Children (FOTC) is embarking on an ambitious expansion this year, adding five new locations to its current roster of 11 cities. FOTC pairs... By Michael Fitzgerald This post Paid Mentors, Big Plans: Terri …
Federal legislation that would mean sweeping changes to the nation’s foster care system will again be up for a vote by the House of Representatives and Senate later today or... By Jeremy Loudenback This post Family First Act Would Harm …
Child maltreatment is often measured by lives forever scarred by trauma and families torn apart, but a new study estimates that each case of abuse also carries a hefty price tag. According to researchers with the San Francisco Child Abuse …
The first day of October 2015 was a good day for Chris Pepper. As content specialist for health programs at the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), Pepper and his... By Guest Writer This post San Francisco Public Schools Include …
Our intuition has long been that early life experiences, like genes, are vital and long-lasting. The timelines mandated by the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) were based on... By Jim Kenny This post Physical Research Is Clear on …
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation late last month making it easier for close relatives and family friends to receive financial support for kinship guardianship agreements (KinGAP). Godparents, step-parents,... By Michael Fitzgerald This post New York Expands Funding Access …
Photo via This past July. an $8.8 million dollar, camp-like nutrition study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was shut down, resulting in a vast internal investigation at Purdue University, one of the nation’s top research institutions, and …
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a plan on Tuesday that seeks to reduce the number of “disconnected” youth in the county, especially foster youth and formerly incarcerated... By Jeremy Loudenback This post L.A. Rolls Out Plan To …
Author Katherine Paterson’s life was profoundly impacted when she became a foster parent. In fact, the influence of fostering was so intense that one of her first books, The Great Gilly Hopkins, was written around the experience.