Child Welfare Reform

Will This Controversial Court Decision Help Or Hurt Kids?

AP | KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 05.29.2012

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MIAMI -- A California judge's decision to open a county's child welfare hearings earlier this year has energized a debate among advocates in other sta...

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Jason Cherkis

Feds Finally Address LGBTQ Homeless Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, Louisiana, Department of Health and Human Services, Pete Stark, Gay Rights, Lgbtq, Homelessness, John Kerry, President Obama, Child-Welfare Reform, Bryan Samuels, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Jonathan had spent nearly a decade in Louisiana's child welfare system. The safest places, the gay teen discovered, were the moldy homes...

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