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State failing abused children
Victoria :: Canada | 4 days ago
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Ombudsman has revealed in a scathing report that finds the Victorian Government is failing to protect children. The long-awaited report by Ombudsman George Brouwer has uncovered cases in which the Department of Human Services took a dangerously long time...
Tags: child protection, Department of Human Services, Victoria, protection worker, Canada, Ombudsman, Law Crime, Social Issues, Child Protective Services, Child abuse, Child welfare, Child sexual abuse, Murder of Victoria Climbiￃﾩ, Childcare, Adversarial system, Child care
Parents against cut in child-care funds
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Disabled Maui veteran Robert Glass said a proposal to reduce state child-care subsidies for preschoolers, including his 3-year-old son, is taking away their chance for a bright future. "As a veteran, I do believe this is what many of us were fighting...
Tags: Department of Human Services, Toni Schwartz, Robert Glass, Wayne Watkins, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Subsidy, Hawaii, Early childhood education, Educational stages, Preschool education, Social Issues
Child care crunch
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Makiki single parent Tara Berry said she fears she might have to leave her job as a social worker if she is unable to afford a preschool fee and has to care during the workday for her 2 1/2-year-old son because of cuts in state child care subsidies.
Tags: child care, Tara Berry, Department of Human Services, single parent, Ron Saoit, Craig Morrison, care subsidies, Hawaii, old son, Honolulu, Preschool education, Subsidy, Mililani Hawai'i, Early childhood education, Educational stages, Child and family services, Social Issues
Programs in county can help people keep their homes
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Miller, 41, who has had one job or another since the age of 15, lives among the ranks of the working poor who increasingly find themselves pushed to the edge of homelessness. She's managed to get by for years, but a combination of health problems and...
Tags: Ms. Miller, homelessness prevention, Department of Human Services, North Hills Community Outreach, Community Human Services, waiting list, McKeesport Healthier Partnership, calls center, Ms. Morgan, McKeesport Housing Authority, Pittsburgh, Schizophrenia, Socioeconomics, Homelessness in the United States, Homelessness, Busking, Poverty, Social Issues
Minister for Bad News
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 16 days ago
Credibility Lisa Neville had already taken an interest in society's most vulnerable. In the early days of the Bracks government, which she would later join, Neville was a community visitor, inspecting the conditions in which the elderly and people with disabilities...
Tags: Lisa Neville, child protection, mental health, Thomas Embling Hospital, mental illness, Department of Human Services, John Brumby, sex offenders, social policy, public advocate, Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Child Protective Services, Ombudsman, Thomas Embling
DHS cuts called threat to economy
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility A legislative panel heard Thursday that further cuts to the Department of Human Services could cause the state's economy to spiral downward. "If material cuts continue to have to be made, the accelerating affect on the overall economy should not be underestimated,"...
Tags: Department of Human Services, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Business Finance, Social Issues, Men, Noncustodial parent, Women, Howard Hendrick, Divorce, Human development, Marriage, Brad Henry, Year of birth missing, Oklahoma, Politics
Seniors hold nutrition rally at Oklahoma Capitol
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | 25 days ago
Credibility Hundreds of seniors are at the state Capitol to express their frustration over cuts to nutrition programs for the elderly. The Department of Human Services has cut $7.4 million from senior nutrition programs to offset declining state revenues. The reduction...
Tags: Department of Human Services, nutrition programs, Oklahoma, seniors nutrition, Vietnam Veteran
Cornfields and Saloons
What do you know about your birth year? All I know about 1978 is what the overpriced booklet at Cracker Barrels says, and all I can derive from that is it was a much more complicated underdeveloped time. I wonder if people born in 2009 will look back...
Tags: Department of Human Services, Police, Child Abuse, Stripper
Oklahoma ranks 44th in child well-being
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Oklahoma ranks 44th nationally in a new state-by-state study on the well-being of America's children. The 2009 Kids Count study found that since 2000, Oklahoma improved on three of 10 measures affecting child well-being...Oklahoma's death rate for children...
Tags: child abuse, Commission for Human Services, Department of Human Services, Oklahoma
Oregonian: Hackers strike Department of Human Services computer network
Salem :: India | 7 months ago
Credibility A hacker broke into the Department of Human Services computer network Wednesday, and investigators were still working Friday to determine the extent of the breach. "We have no indication that any personal information has been compromised," Lonn Hoklin,...
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