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6/12/2023

How America’s Neglect Laws Jeopardize Healthy Child Development

Opinion

Diane Redleaf, Rachel Flynn and Nicholas Shaman

Many U.S. neglect laws run counter to the research showing kids are able to explore independence at younger ages, authors argue

5/23/2023

Surprising Findings on Aging Out, Removal Reasons and More

John Kelly

This week we discuss the race between Texas and New York to pass the first “Family Miranda” bill for child welfare investigations, clergy as mandated reporters, and the 28th state to ban juvenile life without parole sentences. 

Podcast
Image showing anti-poverty effect of cash benefits.

1/19/2023

Impact of Direct Cash Benefits to Low-Income Families Can Be Far-Reaching

Amanda Abrams

A growing body of research shows the impact cash benefits can have on the safety of children

1/16/2023

The Steady Decline of Youth Incarceration, with Melissa Sickmund

John Kelly

On this week’s episode, Melissa Sickmund, director of the National Center for Juvenile Justice, joins us to dive into the decades-long plummeting of youth arrests and incarceration, juvenile justice in the age of Covid-19, data blind spots and more.

Podcast
Nicole Alkire Grady: Research Shows Tribal Colleges, Universities Twice As Likely To Provide Child Care on Campus

11/29/2022

Research Shows Tribal Universities Twice As Likely To Provide Child Care on Campus

Nancy Marie Spears

New research shows that tribal colleges and universities are far more likely than mainstream schools to support students with on-site child care.

Research Shows the Impacts of Foster Care Plus the Experience of an Incarcerated Parent

11/22/2022

Research Shows the Impacts of Foster Care Plus the Experience of an Incarcerated Parent

Farrah Mina

New University of Minnesota research examines the mental health toll on children with an incarcerated parent who have been in foster care.

A New Data Portal Will Track Outcomes for Transition-Age Foster Youth in California

10/4/2022

A New Data Portal Will Track Outcomes for Transition Age Foster Youth in California

Jeremy Loudenback

California has a new tool for tracking and assessing newly public, anonymous data about the outcomes for youth aging out of foster care.

    9/20/2022

    Results in Social Worker Exams Reveal Stark Racial Disparities

    Farrah Mina

    New data shows racial disparities in who passes the standardized test to become a licensed social worker in the U.S.

    Prescribing Antipsychotic Drugs to California Foster Youth Declines Dramatically

    9/11/2022

    Prescribing Antipsychotic Drugs to California Foster Youth Declines Dramatically

    Jeremy Loudenback and Michael Fitzgerald

    Mary Watson, a former Alameda County foster youth who was prescribed psychotropics, in her home in San Leandro, California. Photo by Dai Sugano for the Bay Area News Group.
    They use the words “zombie,” “a blob” and “drunk” when describing what it felt like to be a kid in foster care, prescribed mind-numbing psychiatric drugs to overcome childhood trauma. 

    First-of-its-kind Survey Examines Trauma and Healing Among Indigenous Survivors of Family Separation

    8/29/2022

    First-of-its-kind Survey Examines Trauma and Healing Among Indigenous Survivors of Family Separation

    Nancy Marie Spears and Farrah Mina

    Researchers in Minnesota are collaborating on a survey of Indigenous survivors of family separation to document the abuse and participants' ways of coping.

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