Children New Model Family Foster Home Licensing Standards: An Overview An overview of new model family foster home licensing standards that make it possible for more relatives and nonrelated applicants to become foster parents.
Children The Reuniting Immigrant Families Act: Reasonable Efforts ABA Child Welfare and Immigration Project, Immigrant Legal Resource Center A summary of the reasonable efforts requirement contained in California's Reuniting Immigrant Families Act, the nation's first law addressing reunification barriers faced by immigrant families in the child welfare system.
Children Child Maltreatment in South Korea: An Overview Ann Park A firsthand look at child maltreatment trends in South Korea and a recent movement to better protect children through law and systems reform.
Children New Open-Source Program Aims to Help Parents of Children in Foster Care STRIVE, an online training program, aims to help parents in the child welfare system improve their parenting and interactions with their children.
Children State Constitution Prohibits Automatic Registration of Juvenile Sex Offenders State Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, which provided for automatic registration of youth found delinquent for certain sex offenses violated due process under state constitution because it failed to allow for individual determination of a youth’s risk to reoffend and was based on false assertion that youth sex offenders had a high recidivism rate.
Children Transfer to Tribal Court Was Properly Denied Due to Delay in Request for Transfer Scott Trowbridge Where tribe waited for over a year to ask for transfer of case to tribal court and child’s case was close to termination and adoption in the only home he knew, good cause existed to deny transfer of jurisdiction to the Blackfeet tribal court.
