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City to add $2M, seeks advocates for kids in foster care
Noblesville :: IN :: USA | 15 minutes ago
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While they wait, their cases keep moving forward. "We could be nine months into a case before a child gets his advocate," said Marion County juvenile court Judge Marilyn Moores. "But children are parties to a case. . . . If you're waitlisted nine months,...
Tags: Marion County, Judge Marilyn Moores, Greg Ballard, waiting list, Noblesville, Child and family services, Court Appointed Special Advocate, Social Issues, Child abuse, Advocate, Family, Family law, Foster care, Child welfare
Large family welcomes Latvian orphan for Christmas
Rīga :: Latvia | about 14 hours ago
Credibility When you need something done, ask a busy person. It defies logic, but then so do Eric and Heather McAndrews of Bradley. The couple have barely a minute to spare with nine children and her in-home daycare center. Still, they are determined to make Christmas...
Tags: Latvia, Rīga, Child welfare, Orphanage, Orphan
Supes review child welfare wervices
Vacaville :: CA :: USA | about 21 hours ago
Credibility It is followed by a System Improvement Plan, based on the results. Linda Orrante, deputy director of Child Welfare Services, said there are both negatives and positives in the report, but the biggest advancements have been what happens to foster children...
Tags: Linda Orrante, Child Welfare Services, Vacaville, Child Protective Services, Child protection, Child welfare, Family, Foster care
Most 'orphans' have living parent
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 1 day ago
Credibility The charity Save the Children says some institutions coerce or trick poor parents to give up their children. As a result, the report says, millions of children are put at risk through living in an institution, and face rape, trafficking and beatings.
Tags: living parent, Indonesia, Jakarta, Child welfare, Orphanage, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
CMAJ editorial calls for more kids to be adopted from child welfare system
Toronto :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal calls for changes to ensure more kids in the child welfare system find permanent homes. It says between 30,000 and 40,000 children are legally available for adoption, but only about 2,300...
Tags: children, foster care, adoption, CMAJ, cmaj editorial, child welfare, Canada, Toronto, Medical journals, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Family law, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Native children flooding into aid societies
Ottawa :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility More First Nations children are in the care of children's aid societies today than were forced to live in residential schools at the height of that shameful chapter in Canadian history. And yet because of Ottawa's longstanding record of short-changing...
Tags: Assembly of First Nations, nations children, Ontario Association of Children, aid society, Cindy Blackstock, child protection, aboriginal children, protection services, child welfare, Canada, Ottawa, First Nations, Stolen Generations, Indian reserve, Child and family services, Canadian Indian residential school system, Cultural assimilation, Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Human rights abuses
Determining problem comes before solution
Jinja :: Uganda | 4 days ago
Credibility Then Keedy would point out the error in their answers. "All of you failed to ask the key question: What is the problem? Unless you know what the problem is, you cannot possibly find the answer." Trying to solve the wrong problem inhibits your ability...
Tags: Uganda, Jinja, Child welfare, Orphanage, Orphan, Problem, Mathematical problem, Chess problem, Mathematics education
GLOBAL: Childrens rights not yet a reality
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility Children’s rights advocates are taking 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to highlight legal advances, but say when it comes to education, healthcare and protection in conflicts and natural disasters,...
Tags: Somalia, Australia, Sydney, Ann Veneman, Child mortality, Child labour, Children's rights, UNICEF UK, UNICEF, Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations, Social Issues, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, Committee on the Rights of the Child, Human rights, Save the Children, Politics, Child welfare, Everychild, Orphanage, Labor, Outline of Somalia, Horn of Africa, War Conflict, Prostitution of children, Stolen Generations, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, Prostitution, Child pornography, Immigration to Australia, Australian Human Rights Commission, Australian nationality law, Refugee
Lyons: Why deputies' DCF lie deserved to be tossed
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 6:28 p.m. Law enforcement administrators should note the court ruling that says a lie Sarasota County sheriff's investigators told to get into a house, without a warrant, violated the residents' rights. External Links:...
Tags: DCF, law officer, dcf lie, child welfare, Sarasota, Child protection, Search and seizure, Criminal law, Search warrant, Warrants, Law Crime
State doesn't know whether CPS workers are law-abiding, non-violent
Austin :: TX :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility The state, despite efforts to tighten background checks, still doesn't know for sure whether Child Protective Services employees are law-abiding and nonviolent. CPS officials admit that the case of a North Texas supervisor, who didn't disclose her arrests...
Tags: CPS, Austin, Child welfare, Domestic violence, Foster care, Background check, Law enforcement in the United States, Child abuse, Child Protective Services, Law Crime, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Food Stamp Program, Labor, Social Issues
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