Author: Kay Casey | Posted: 29. March 2013 08:54
On March 21, 2013 the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth and the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute held a roundtable discussion on foster care and adoption legislative and policy priorities for the 113th Congress. Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) described two priorities: 1) to convince the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ensure youth in foster care will be eligible for Medicaid coverage up to age 26 even when moving from state to state, and 2) passing legislation that will provide training for child welfare workers on issues involving sex trafficking of youth in foster care. [More]
Author: Kay Casey | Posted: 18. June 2012 09:51
Children’s Rights is a national advocacy group that has worked to bring change to struggling child welfare systems in more than a dozen states. The non-profit currently has class-action lawsuits active in three states related to the child welfare reform. Children’s Rights has launched a Facebook application (app) that provides the public with an interactive, social experience that is aimed at increasing awareness about the challenges and outcomes facing children in the foster care system. “Trapped: Fighting the Odds of U.S. Foster Care” allows users to track two fictitious brothers as they make their way through the child welfare system and age out of foster care with extremely different outcomes. [More]
Author: Kay Casey | Posted: 7. November 2011 11:52
The number of children living poverty has grown steadily in recent years and recent data indicates that childhood poverty is at the highest level ever. Statistics show that one in four children live in poverty. An effort was initiated recently by Representatives Danny Davis (D-IL) and Gwen Moore (D-WI), who hosted a briefing with stakeholders and policymakers for the purpose of addressing factors that impact poverty and identifying ways to better implement programs that support families. [More]
