Children New Birth Assessment Helps Teen Parents in Illinois Foster Care Claire Chiamulera A 1994 consent decree paved the way for better protections for pregnant and parenting teens in the Illinois child welfare system.
Children Polyvictimization: Tips for Advocates Working with Children Safe Start Center Polyvictimization refers to having experienced multiple victimizations such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, bullying, and exposure to family violence.
Children Law Program Helps Young Offenders Avoid Cycle of Violence and Jail Newswise In the world of young offenders, strong words can quickly lead to violence, turning a brief youth-detention stay into a lifetime cycle of incarceration.
Children The Role of Judges in Implementing Fostering Connections: Sibling Placement Provisions Grandfamilies State Law and Policy Resource Center The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act —Public Law 110-351, (“Fostering Connections”) is a federal law primarily designed to promote permanent families for children and youth in foster care.
Children Father’s Legal Use of Medical Marijuana Did Not Justify Dependency Jurisdiction Scott Trowbridge Where child had become involved primarily due to safety concerns regarding the mother’s behavior, but father used marijuana medically, jurisdiction was inappropriate over him without a showing of how his use put the child at substantial risk.
Children Termination of Parental Rights Improper Where Mother Could Safely Parent Scott Trowbridge Where mother had resolved the reasons that led to the child’s removal and could parent safely in the near future with the assistance of a family member, termination was inappropriate.