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| vol.6 no.6, March 24, 2010 |
HHS Issues New Guidance on Kinship/Guardianship CareIn a new program instruction (ACYF-CB-PI-10-01), the Department of Health and Human Services, through the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) replaced 2008 guidance that was seen by some as limiting Title IV-E Kinship care coverage under the Fostering Connection Act. The new instruction states that this "allows Title IV-E agencies to convert legal guardianships that existed prior to the plan submission, including those that may have been supported through state or tribal funds." To read more, click here. |
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Policy |
Next Steps for Temporary Assistance for Needy FamiliesCongress will need to reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program before funding runs out at the end of 2010. To examine the impact and the future of TANF, the Urban Institute convened a roundtable meeting with experts from the federal and state governments, research institutions, and the advocacy community for a broad-ranging discussion and recently released a brief identifying the lessons learned, as well as insights and perspectives on the upcoming congressional reauthorization. For more click here. |
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White House Releases List of Charities that Will Receive President's Nobel Peace Prize Money After becoming the third sitting United States President to win the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama pledged to donate the prize money to charity. The White House has recently released a list of the ten charities that will each receive a portion of the $1.4 million in prize money. For more click here. |
Resources |
Runaway & Homeless Youth and Relationship Violence ToolkitThis Toolkit was developed by and for advocates in the runaway and homeless youth (RHY) and domestic and sexual assault (DV/SA) fields, including MANY and MANY members, to help programs better address relationship violence with runaway and homeless youth. The Toolkit organizes information, resources, tips and tools drawn from the lessons learned by collaborative projects funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which brought together domestic violence programs and runaway and homeless youth agencies to address relationship violence among street youth, DV/SA providers will find information designed to increase their understanding of runaway and homeless youth and the network of programs and services working with them and, conversely, RHY providers will find resources on intimate partner violence and the programs and networks that provide protections and support to victims of violence. To access the tool kit, click here. |
What Works for Older Youth During the Transition to AdulthoodThis new release from Child Trends examines the role that programs designed to serve older youth can play in promoting positive development and subsequent self-sufficiency in adulthood, then synthesizes the findings from 31 studies that implemented random assignment intent-to-treat experimental evaluations to examine the impacts of various intervention strategies on youth well-being outcomes during the transition to adulthood (ages 18 to 25). To view the full document, click here. |
Conceptualizing Juvenile Prostitution as Child Maltreatment
In the recently published brief, Conceptualizing Juvenile Prostitution as Child Maltreatment: Findings from the National Juvenile Prostitution Study, researchers from the University of New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center found that over thirty-percent of juveniles taken into custody for prostitution are treated as criminal offenders rather than victims of commercial sexual exploitation, particularly when they are apprehended through community police patrols, although the study found much controversy and confusion among criminal justice authorities on how to best handle juvenile prostitution.
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