News from the month of August regarding child and family well-being from Massachusetts and across the country.
CLM, Members, and Partners in the News:
- Mass. child welfare agency receives new commissioner after nearly a year without a permanent leader - Children's League of Massachusetts (Boston Globe)
- There are no good options when it comes to the crisis in the Mass. emergency shelter system - Centerboard (Boston Globe)
- Healey is right — the shelter system is at a breaking point - Heading Home (Boston Globe; Opinion)
- Overflow shelter operator says families aren't being evicted to streets as 5-day limit takes effect - Heading Home (wbur)
- If Raise the Age isn’t economic development, what is? - Citizens for Juvenile Justice (Boston Globe; Letters to the Editor)
- Homelessness is surging in Greater Boston. A new study blames the state’s housing crisis. - The Home for Little Wanderers (Boston Globe)
News Across Massachusetts:
- What Mass. lawmakers did — and didn't — pass in marathon final day of legislative session (wbur)
- Mass. gets $20M from feds to help cover shelter system costs (MassLive)
- Amid state shelter restrictions, pregnant women, children, sleep on Massachusetts streets (Boston Globe)
- Stockbridge receives additional vouchers to support youth transitioning from foster care find — and keep — housing (Berkshire Eagle)
- Shelter evictions set to begin across Mass. for homeless and migrant families (Boston Globe)
- Overflow shelter operator says families aren't being evicted to streets as 5-day limit takes effect - Heading Home (wbur)
- Mass. takes major step toward child care reform (CommonWealth Beacon)
- ‘Folks can’t make ends meet’: Need for food assistance is great, growing (MassLive)
- Report finds Greater Boston’s homelessness rate is second highest nationally (CommonWealth)
News Across the Country:
- Youth Justice by the Numbers (The Sentencing Project; Policy Brief)
- Justice Department watchdog finds flaws in FBI's reporting of sex crimes against children (NBC/Associated Press)
- Trans, nonbinary youth face inequities in foster care, justice system, homeless services (Advocate)
- Still Cruel and Unusual: Extreme Sentences for Youth and Emerging Adults (The Sentencing Project; Publication)
- New snapshot of youth incarceration shows hope, but disparities persist (Public News Service)
- Medicaid Has It Right When It Comes to Supporting Kinship Care (Imprint; Opinion)
- Biden administration hikes pay for Head Start teachers to address workforce shortage (Associated Press News)
- Dobbs-Era Policy Has Irrevocably Changed Teenage Pregnancy (TIME)
- White House unveils new policies to transform child welfare (Youth Today)
- Young People with Foster Care Experience Want to Go to College, but They Need Better Information about Educational Funding (Urban Institute)
- Child Marriages Map Shows US States With Most, Least (Newsweek)
- Some Trans People Can’t Afford To Flee Anti-LGBTQ+ States (Huffington Post)
- Hundreds of thousands of parents died from drugs. Their kids need more help, advocates say. (Stateline)
- Kinship Diversion Cannot be Done on the Cheap, or on Demand (Imprint; Opinion)
- Top Federal Official Stresses the Importance of Resources for Tribes’ Early Childhood Programs (Imprint)
- Survey of kinship care policies shows the need for better data collection by states (Youth Today)