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The Imprint is an independent daily news outlet focused on the nation’s child welfare and youth justice systems. Since 2013, Imprint reporters have produced rigorous, in-depth reporting on the courts that process these children, youth and families; the agencies paid to serve them; and the housing, economic, mental health and educational issues they face.
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The Imprint is an online news publication dedicated to solution-based news coverage of child welfare and juvenile justice.
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 · 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. It has taken Regina Louisea lifetime to get here. When Louise released her first book, “Somebody’s Someone,” in 2003, she was on a mission to tell the story of a poor, abused and ...
Who Cares 2020: A National Count of Foster Homes and Families
The Pandemic’s Blueprint for a Better Child Welfare System. Your support allows The Imprint to provide independent, nonpartisan daily news covering the issues faced by vulnerable children and families. Donate or Subscribe. The 2020 executive summary for the Who Cares project finds the number of foster youth in America, and the number of ...
A Complete Guide to The Family First Act - The Imprint
TheFamily First Prevention Services Act has become law. It includes the biggest change to the structure of federal child welfare finance since the establishment of the Title IV-E entitlement in 1980. 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 ...
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 ...
Lawsuit Alleges Widespread Abuse at Former L.A. Children’s Shelter
May 18, 2022 · Children lived in a “house of horrors” at one of the nation’s largest and most troubled shelters for foster youth, according to a lawsuit filed against Los Angeles County Tuesday. At least a dozen former residents were sexually abused by staff at the now-shuttered facility, lawyers allege, including children as young as 5.
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.
WHO CARES: A NATIONAL COUNT OF FOSTER HOMES & FAMILIES FOSTERCARECAPACITY.ORG 6 THE ROLE OF RELATIVES CONTINUES TO GROW We were able to collect the number of relative caregivers with …