After Tentative Deal, CPS Workers in MN Talk About Their Work
Hennepin County child protection workers represented by AFSCME Local 34 were among county staffers rallying for better contracts on Nov. 12, 2024. Photo by AFSCME Local 2864. Update: …
Youth Share Firsthand Accounts of Life in Group Homes
Oct 4, 2024 · The new report expands on an earlier version released in 2018 that focused solely on juvenile justice facilities. The recent installment adds insight into facilities for foster youth …
First-ever Oral Histories of Indian Boarding School Survivors
Oct 11, 2024 · The first-of-its-kind oral history project, underway since March, receives and archives these memories. Three historians and a team of an additional 10 to 12 people have …
Washington State's Plan for Incarcerated Youth Receives Backlash
Green Hill School in Chehalis, the state’s largest youth facility of its type, is supposed to rehabilitate teen offenders. But it has instead been mired in overpopulation, violence and …
Headlines and The Interstate Compact with Marina Nitze
12/09/2024. Headlines and The Interstate Compact with Marina Nitze. On this week’s episode we discuss the Trump transition process, the last months of the Biden administration, and …
New Legal Help for Minneapolis Parents, Before Children are Taken
Oct 16, 2024 · The 1-year-old project in Hennepin County is among the newest prepetition legal representation programs popping up across the country, part of growing efforts to provide legal …
Legal Permanence for All Foster Youth, No Exceptions
Dec 9, 2024 · Melinda Haggerty, Senior Vice President General Counsel at the foundation, who was adopted as an adult, shared, “The impact that adult adoption had on my life cannot be …
Texas Moves Toward Case Management Overhaul
Dec 3, 2024 · Just before the Obama administration called it a day, it issued a plan by which states could get 50 cents on the dollar to overhaul their child welfare information and case …
The Imprint
The Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program, a group of seven young people that experienced …
The 'SOUL Family' Approach to Permanency | The Imprint
Dec 11, 2024 · The Proposal. Robinson proposes that Congress recognize the Support, Opportunity, Unity, and Legal Relationships (SOUL) Family as a viable permanency option …