FRAC's Recommendation for Ending Child Hunger by 2015 Posted Thursday, 02 July 2009The President promised, while campaigning, to put an end to child hunger. He promised that by 2015 every child in America would have adequate access to healthy foods. The Food Research and Action...
L.A. County seeks to improve communications and protect children Posted Wednesday, 01 July 2009According to an article in the LA Times this week, officials in Los Angeles County have proposed a new data sharing system meant to improve communications between local child welfare agencies. It has...
Illinois Kids Have a Friend in ACLU! Posted Tuesday, 30 June 2009A few days ago we posted an item about the proposed budget
cuts to Illinois’ child welfare system—cuts that would result in heavier
caseloads for child protective services workers, a...
Kids and Families Cut Off at the Knees Posted Wednesday, 24 June 2009Why do states, in their desperate attempts to balance their budgets,
make what appear to be inordinate cuts to health and human services? Do
other line items bleed as freely? Why are children and...