By The Associate Press
Friday, Aug 15, 2008
PRINCETON, N.J. — A new, nationwide study says chronically ill children enrolled in state-subsidized insurance programs or Medicaid get about the same access to care as children with private insurance.
The study from New Jersey-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation also says children without any type of [...]
August 7th, 2008
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
The Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) - The first federal survey of both men and women on adoption challenges some stereotypes and offers some surprising findings:
- Minority women are trying to adopt at a higher rate than white women.
- Only 1 percent of single women put their [...]
BY CLARENCE MABIN / Lincoln Journal Star
Sunday, Jul 27, 2008 - 12:06:39 am CDT
At first, adopting the little boy and his two younger sisters seemed like it would be easy.
Removed by police from a filthy, mice- and cockroach-infested Lincoln home in July 2005, the children, then 4, 2 and 11 [...]
BY CLARENCE MABIN / Lincoln Journal Star
Sunday, Jul 27, 2008
The right of parents to custody of their children is a fundamental liberty protected by the U.S. Constitution. So says the nation’s highest court.
But children have rights, too, courts have held, and the challenge of the juvenile justice system often is to protect [...]
BY CLARENCE MABIN / Lincoln Journal Star
Sunday, Jul 27, 2008
A Lancaster County Juvenile Court case that involved three kids taken from an unsanitary house in 2005 concluded nearly three years later with their adoption by Jeff and Lisa Elrod.
Lancaster County prosecutors filed the initial abuse and neglect petition against the children’s [...]
By Karen de Sá
Mercury News
07/22/2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger strengthened the rights of California’s 80,000 children in foster care on Monday, signing a law that ensures greater opportunities for youths to be present in court hearings deciding the course of their lives - from where they will live to how often, if ever, they [...]
BY MARTHA STODDARD
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
Thursday July 10, 2008
LINCOLN — More Nebraska children left the state’s child welfare system than entered it during the two years since Gov. Dave Heineman issued directives aimed at reducing the number of state wards.
The governor today called the trend a major accomplishment that reversed a steady climb [...]
By NANCY HICKS / Lincoln Journal Star
Thursday, Jul 10, 2008 - 07:18:44 pm CDT
A concerted effort by both the courts and the state human services agency to get children out of the foster care system and into permanent homes is paying off.
In two years, the number of children in the state’s child [...]
By NANCY HICKS / Lincoln Journal Star
Saturday, Jul 05, 2008 - 12:38:52 am CDT
The state’s decision early this year to curb the use of child welfare dollars for adults could make it more difficult for parents to be reunited with children, according to some local human service leaders.
Some agencies and counselors [...]
BY MARTHA STODDARD
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has earned accolades from children’s advocates and others for its plans to change how the child welfare system does business beginning today.
But officials’ execution of those plans? Not so much.
The plans include new services aimed at keeping [...]
