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Foster Care and Adoption

Few systems are as critical to a community as child welfare. To an outsider, the child welfare system is also a complex labyrinth of programs that cover children’s safety, abuse and neglect, foster care and adoption as well as supporting and strengthening families. How children fare in that system will have lifelong repercussions across all parts of society.

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State of Independents: The Orange Duffel Bag Initiative

Atlanta Magazine
Betsy Riley

The Orange Duffel Bag Initiative features life coaching for at risk teens and young adults in the foster care system, suffering from homelessness or enduring poverty. 

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They Steal Babies, Don’t They?

Pacific Standard
E.J. Graff

An investigation into U.S. State documents highlights just how shady the international adoption scene became before a July law set common-sense regulation in place.

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Families and Communities, Foster Care and Adoption, Child Welfare

“Did You Ever Mind It?” (Opinion)

The Toast
Nicole Soojung Callahan

A woman reflects on race and adoption and growing up with parents of a different ethnicity.

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On the Beat: Prescription Kids

Asha Glover
The Denver Post’s Jennifer Brown and Christopher N. Osher are no strangers to Colorado’s child welfare system. In 2012, the two teamed up for “Failed to Death,” an investigative series on the preventable deaths of abused and neglected children. While working on that series, they were... Read more
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Glossary and Guidance

JCCF Staff
Newsroom stylebooks and media law guides may offer guidance on when to use loaded terms like “accused,” “arrest” and “indict,” but tips on language for sex trafficking are less clear. Here are some terms that may be helpful:Child prostitute- Never use. Children under the age of 18 cannot... Read more
Child Welfare, Foster Care and Adoption, Detention and Incarceration, Teens and Young Adults

"Things Happen When Nobody's Watching"

Sandra Muller
This article was originally published in the February/March 2013 issue of American Journalism Review. "In God's Name" has since won a 2013 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.Before Alexandra Zayas started investigating abuse in unlicensed religious children's homes in Florida, she... Read more
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Sexual Abuse of Children with Disabilities: A National Snapshot

Vera Institute of Justice
The report aims to expose the seldom-addressed challenges that confront children with disabilities who are sexually abused.
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Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Child-Care Settings

Pediatrics
Prenatal alcohol exposure is a leading cause for placing children in a child-care system (e.g., orphanage, foster care or child welfare system) and leaves this population at high risk for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
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Families on the Front Lines

First Focus Lindsay Marshall
Over 400,000 immigrants could face deportation, threatening the family unit and forcing parents and children to be separated
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The United States has the worst record in the industrialized nation – losing five children every day due to abuse-related deaths.
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Andrea Powell
FAIR Girls
Child Welfare, Neglect and Abuse, Foster Care and Adoption, Child Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking of Minors
Withelma, T, Ortiz Walker Pettigrew
Rights4Girls
Child Welfare, Neglect and Abuse, Foster Care and Adoption, Child Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking of Minors, Families and Communities
Catherine DeCarlo Santiago
Loyola University Chicago
Child Welfare, Neglect and Abuse, Foster Care and Adoption, Economics, Prevention and Rehabilitation, Health and Development, Children, Teens and Young Adults, Families and Communities, Demographics and Immigration, New American Children Term, New American Children JCCF
Bruce Boyer
Loyola University School of Law
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