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My message to all foster youth: Voting isn’t just a mundane adult task — it’s our power to shape the world, writes Lonnell Schuler. The Imprint is an independent, nonprofit daily news publication dedicated to covering child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and educational issues faced by vulnerable children and families.
Foster Care Archives - The Imprint
Nov 4, 2024 · A rare data set obtained by The Imprint reveals the state has struggled to diversify its pool of foster parents — years after criticism from federal officials. Texas is tracking the use of trash bags when youth in its foster care system are removed from home or change placements. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
How Do Raise the Age Laws Serve Youth and the Public ... - The …
For exclusive Youth Services Insider content. Your support allows The Imprint to provide independent, nonpartisan daily news covering the issues faced by vulnerable children and families. The purpose of the Raise the Age law was to ensure that more youth would benefit from the Family Court’s rehabilitative focus and sealed records policies ...
Regina Louise's Tale of Searching for Permanency is Ready for …
Apr 12, 2019 · Story of My Life: Regina Louise’s Tale of Searching for Permanency is Ready for Primetime. By Kim Phagan-Hansel. Author Regina Louise’s story of her foster care journey is being made into a Lifetime movie premiering April 20 at 8 p.m. EST. Photo courtesy of Regina Louise. The new film “I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story ...
Seattle Agency Revisits 50 Years of Adoption Files | The Imprint
Adilia Watson and Susanti Sarkar. Your support allows The Imprint to provide independent, nonpartisan daily news covering the issues faced by vulnerable children and families. Donate or Subscribe. Through the Adoption Files Initiative, a Seattle nonprofit is combing through 50 years of adoption files to make amends in certain cases.
The Nation’s First Family Separation Policy - The Imprint
Oct 9, 2018 · In the late 1960s, while employed by the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA), a New York-based attorney named Bertram Hirsch was sent to North Dakota to assist with a kinship dispute case on behalf of the Spirit Lake Tribe. Child welfare workers were forcibly removing children from family members and placing them in white homes, sometimes out of state.
A Complete Guide to The Family First Act - The Imprint
The Family First Act is aimed at amending the IV-E entitlement to provide more federal resources to help families in crisis stay together, and limit federal funds for putting foster youth into congregate care placements, including group homes. The law includes several other child welfare-related updates to federal policy. So what is actually in ...
Adoption Archives - The Imprint
Sep 16, 2024 · This three-part Imprint series explores a young person’s journey through a tribal foster care system and into a life of advocacy — as well as the challenges a family and the Tulalip Tribes confronted. The Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program, a ...
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One Million Adoptions Later: Adoption and Safe Families Act at 20
Nov 28, 2018 · Your support allows The Imprint to provide independent, nonpartisan daily news covering the issues faced by vulnerable children and families. Donate or Subscribe. More Than One Million Adoptions Later: Taking a Close Look at the Adoption and Safe Families Act at 20 years post passage.