Governor Cuomo Signs Legislation To Provide Children In Foster Care The Right To Visit Their Siblings | LongIsland.com
Governor Cuomo Signs Legislation To Provide Children In Foster Care The Right To Visit Their Siblings | LongIsland.com Albany, NY – October 23, 2017 – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation to affirmatively give siblings separated by foster care the right to visit and contact each other. “This action will allow some of […]
Missouri waives birth certificate fees for foster care kids
Missouri waives birth certificate fees for foster care kids Missouri waives birth certificate fees for foster care kids inNews By: The Associated Press & Jacob Cavaiani, KOMU 8 Reporter JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — The state no longer will make children in foster care pay a $15 fee to get copies of their birth certificates, Missouri Gov. […]
‘It’s like a tsunami’: Opioid epidemic pushes kids into foster care – The Buffalo News
‘It’s like a tsunami’: Opioid epidemic pushes kids into foster care – The Buffalo News The opioid epidemic is not just killing hundreds of local residents – it’s leaving hundreds of Erie County children without a home or at risk of being removed from one. They are orphaned children and they are the children of […]
NFYI hosted the Inland Empire Roundtable
The National Foster Youth Institute recently hosted the Inland Empire Policy Roundtable with the UC Riverside Guardian Scholars Program. The NFYI’s newly named Executive Director, Jenny Vinopal, and Kenyon Lee Whitman, Program Director for UCR Guardian Scholars moderated the panel. Check out the gallery for more! About the UC Riverside Guardian Scholars Program Operated under the Office […]
WV struggles with increase in foster children | News | herald-dispatch.com
CHARLESTON – More than 6,100 children are in the West Virginia foster care system as of October and the number keeps growing, according to the acting Bureau for Children and Families commissioner Linda Watts.Watts spoke Tuesday morning to the Joint Commission of Children and Families and told legislators that number had increased in just a […]
Children Are Dying at Alarming Rates in Foster Care, and Nobody Is Bothering to Investigate
A two-year investigation finds shocking indifference to the fates of neglected children in for-profit group homes. Source: Children Are Dying at Alarming Rates in Foster Care, and Nobody Is Bothering to Investigate
Q&A with Rep. Karen Bass: Engaging Youth, Educating Congress
Since coming to Washington, D.C. in 2010, Los Angeles Congresswoman Karen Bass has fast become one of the House’s lead champions on child welfare issues. Her first major piece of legislation, the Uninterrupted Scholars Act, was signed into law in 2013 and allows for caregivers to access education records of foster youth to help guide […]
Announcement of Jenny Dang Vinopal as Executive Director of NFYI
Los Angeles, Ca, September 29, 2017 On behalf of the Board of Directors of the National Foster Youth Institute (NFYI) I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Jenny Dang Vinopal as Executive Director of NFYI. Jenny has the experience, expertise, and passion that is a perfect fit for the crucially important and […]