Recent news about child welfare and family well-being from Massachusetts and around the country.
In Massachusetts:
- Legislators call for more oversight of Mass. child welfare system in series of new bills (Boston Globe)
- Open the doors to closed juvenile sessions (Commonwealth Magazine)
- Pregnant patients can be reported for neglect solely for taking addiction medication. A new federal bill would change that. (Boston Globe)
- How Northeastern students and faculty helped secure a pardon for Haitian-born man failed by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (Northeastern Global News)
- Fair Share Advances Racial Equity Through New Budget Investments (MassBudget)
- With Mass. shelters nearing state-imposed capacity, questions and legal challenge cloud Healey's plans (Boston Globe)
- Grandparents Lobby For More Support Raising Their Grandchildren (WBZ News Radio)
CLM in the news:
- Legislators override two dozen Healey vetoes (Commonwealth Magazine)
- Governor Healey Signs First Tax Cuts in More Than 20 Years (Press Release)
News across the country:
- New White House proposal to further alienate religious foster parents (New York Post; Opinion)
- When Foster Parents Don’t Want to Give Back the Baby (ProPublica)
- Positive Role Models for Juvenile Justice-Impacted Youth (Imprint; Commentary)
- It's time to grant full citizenship to adoptees born outside of U.S. (Cincinnati Enquirer; Opinion)
- New Research Shows High Desire Among Black Americans To Become Foster Parents, But Distrust And Discrimination Prevents Them (Black Enterprise)
- Georgetown University report lauds community-based alternatives to youth incarceration (Patriot News)
- Credit Builders Alliance: Empowering Young People Through Credit Education (Equifax; Press Release)
- US offers legal status, benefits to migrant families separated under Trump (Reuters)
- Powerful, Not Powerless: Barriers to Foster Youth Well-Being (Psychology Today)
- Biden Administration Agrees to Settlement with ACLU in Family Separation Case (Vanguard)
- Victims of Abuse Penalized for Victimization (Psychology Today; Opinion)
- Mental Health After Foster Care (Imprint; Opinion)
- The child placement crisis: It's time to lose the slogans and find real solutions (Child Welfare Monitor; Opinion)
- Foster students are being left behind—educational leaders can change that (University Business)
- 'No matter what I do, I'm not in control': what happens when the state takes your child (Guardian; Commentary)
- How Int'l Strategies Can Mitigate US Child Labor Risks (Law360)
- Implications of Haaland and the Indian Child Welfare Act (State Bar of Wisconsin)
- A Model Standard for Approving Kinship Caregivers (Imprint)
- Mentoring Child Welfare Workers Should Be a Must, Not a Luxury (Imprint; Opinion)
- National Center for Diligent Recruitment (National Adoption Association; Press Release)
- Pioneering Change in Juvenile Correctional Psychiatry (Psychiatry Today)
- Baby Bonds Would Reduce Racial Wealth Inequities. Here's What Policymakers Need to Know. (Urban Institute)
- An increase in child suicide highlights the urgent need for mental health services (Georgia Public Broadcasting)
- Child care programs just lost thousands of federal dollars. Families and providers scramble to cope (Associated Press)
- As child poverty doubles, states launch or expand their own tax credits (Stateline)
- Child Well-Being Doesn't Require Family Policing (Imprint; Opinion)
- Strengthening Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) as a Safety Net and Work Program (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families)
- iFoster Supports New Actions to Support Children and Families in Foster Care (iFoster)