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Top Stories of 2024: A Long Overdue Apology | The Imprint
1 天前 · President Joe Biden apologizing today for the U.S. government’s Indigenous boarding school policies. C-SPAN photo still. In October, standing on the land of the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, President Joe Biden formally apologized for the centuries that the U.S. government forced Native American children to attend boarding schools, ripping them from their families, tribes, culture ...
Top Stories of 2024: How We Support Kin | The Imprint
2 天之前 · Yesterday, we featured Imprint reporting on the continuous drop in the number of youth who are in foster care. Less is known about trends in the use of “hidden foster care,” a practice that generally entails child protection agencies diverting children to the homes of relatives or family friends without formally seeking to remove legal custody from a parent or guardian.
Ten Great Op-Eds from 2024 | The Imprint
2 天之前 · The Imprint was fortunate to feature dozens of perspectives and analyses in our Opinion section this year. The following is a selection not necessarily of the best 10 pieces from 2024, but strong work that captures the breadth of topics within child welfare and youth justice that were written by Imprint columnists this year.
Best of Youth Voices Rising 2024 | The Imprint
2 天之前 · This year, the Youth Voices Rising team at Fostering Media Connections was proud to work with dozens of current and former foster youth with child welfare, homelessness and juvenile justice experience to share their stories in writing and at online events. As 2024 comes to …
Top Stories of 2024: Facility Failure, Front and Center
2024年12月23日 · Among The Imprint’s many stories on residential care in 2024: Legislation inspired by a 2020 investigation by The Imprint and San Francisco Chronicle will require more transparency by California’s congregate care providers.. A New York court affirmed that judges have the power to dictate if a residential care facility is an appropriate placement for a youth.
Top Stories of 2024: Legal Counsel | The Imprint
6 天之前 · Two brothers during a child welfare court hearing in Indiana. Photo courtesy of Calamari Productions. Since 2019, states have been able to use federal child welfare funds to help pay for legal counsel for parents involved in child welfare cases, and for youth who are living in foster care. While ...
Top Stories of 2024: CASA's Frozen Funds | The Imprint
2024年12月24日 · Illustration by Christine Ongjoco. Near the end of 2023, The Imprint’s Michael Fitzgerald broke the story that the federal government had frozen a primary source of funding to the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) national association — a nonprofit overseeing volunteer groups for foster kids — following an examination of its financial practices.
The Best of The Imprint Weekly Podcast, 2024
12/09/2024. Headlines and The Interstate Compact with Marina Nitze. On this week’s episode we discuss the Trump transition process, the last months of the Biden administration, and recommend some interesting reads from The Imprint and elsewhere this month, including Sara Tiano’s two-part series on the intersection of addiction treatment and …
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California Child Welfare Reporter. Jeremy Loudenback is a Los Angeles-based senior reporter who writes about foster care and youth justice. Loudenback tracks data, follows legislation in the state capital and reports from confidential courtrooms to cover the most vulnerable and resilient children and families.