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Reassessing Court Performance in Child Protection Cases
The National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues of the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law has recently published a user's manual for conducting court...
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Independent Living Grantees Post Curriculums
The Children's Bureau funded 12 grantees between 2000 and 2003 to develop curriculums for training adults who work with youth transitioning out of foster care to independent living. The National...
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Overrepresentation of Minority Children: How the Child Welfare System Is Responding
A recently released report by the Children's Bureau suggests that children of color, especially African American children, are overrepresented in the child welfare system for a variety of reasons,...
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Native American Community-Based Family Resource and Support Program
More than 150,000 Native Americans, representing 150 different tribes, live in Los Angeles County. Scattered throughout the county, these families are in many cases separated from their extended...
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