current proposals to change the financing structure for foster care services and then discusses strategies that are more likely to ensure that the foster care system effectively serves children, guaranteeing their safety and well-being, and assuring that permanency is achieved for each child in care....
COVID-19 has impacted all of our lives, but as school work shifted to virtual and child care facilities closed, the transition has been keenly felt by parents. "I had to adjust to what had changed in my role while I was out, as well as figuring out how to be a first-time mother,...
SCTs’ target users may vary vastly, going from small children to young adults. A child is ‘every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier [Article 1 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)]’...
Child Care and Early Education Series Title I and Early Childhood Programs : A Look at Investments in the NCLB Era This paper explores the range of ways in which school districts are using Title I funds for early education through kindergarten and examines how the imple... Ewen,Matthews - 《...
It was the culmination of years of work by Invisible Children to bring awareness about child soldiers who were being kidnapped by a man named Joseph Kony in Uganda. Invisible Children had spent years putting on events with the aim of getting the youth of America and all over the world to ...
Who remembers hearing, as a child, “Because I said so?” As adults, this sentiment often transforms into, “Because that’s how it works.” When we hear this enough, we stop asking questions. Or worse, if we reject the dogma, we’re often seen as a problem. ...
In fully dedicating ourselves to the process, we found that a “dream team” and learning through experience were the keys to fulfilling our dream of having a child.By Rick & LauraOur story began like many others: we met in college, married, and made inroads in our careers. Ab...
If you’re second guessing parenting your child after they have been born, find out how to put a baby up for adoption after you take it home from the hospital.
maintain recovery, and people’s “bottom” –that is, the catalyst that propelled them onto a pathway to recovery–differed greatly from one participant to another (for one respondent it was her first pregnancy, for another it was when her fifth child was taken by Child Protective Services)...
Sereena Abotsway, born with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, was assaulted so violently that she had to have a steel plate put in her head. As a young child, Dawn Crey of the Sto:lo First Nation witnessed her father die of a heart attack — an event that set her mother to hea...