Wraparound Milwaukee has been selected as a recipient of the Harvard University-Kennedy School of Government award for Best Innovation in American Government Award. Wraparound Milwaukee's collaborative systems of care and funding have been hugely successful in serving families of children with serious emotional disturbance in the...
If you've never checked out the Future of Children journals, you should. Start with their most recent volume on Preventing Child Maltreatment. With up-to-date research on best practices, this volume covers prevention through intervention and serves as an excellent overview of critical issues facing child protective service professionals...
Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released a batch of data from the American Community Survey (ACS), an annual survey of some 3 million households nationwide. The release includes data on health insurance coverage (for the first time), household income, and housing costs for 2008. Wisconsin remains a national leader in making health...
The National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Network (NJJN) has recently released two public policy platforms that will help guide juvenile justice advocates and policy-makers in the months/years ahead. Conditions of Confinement focuses on some guiding principles about where and the conditions under which youth are held if they need to...
On September 10th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declared in US v. Juvenile Male, No. 07-30290 (9th Cir. Sept. 10, 2009) that part of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) relating to former juvenile offenders is unconstitutional. Although this decision does not directly affect Wisconsin,...
A recently released brief by Chapin Hall, titled Embedding Home Visitation Programs Within a System of Early Childhood Services, provides a great summary of the value of quality home visitation services in ensuring the healthy development of at-risk children, especially birth to three. Perhaps of greatest interest to practitioners and...
The Children's Health Alliance has launched a new e-newsletter, called Kids Unleaded. The newsletter will cover issues related to lead poisoning elimination, the long-term negative effects of lead exposure, and opportunities to link with others working on this critical issue. The negative impacts on brain development, school...
The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) approved by Congress early this year gives states financial assistance and policy options that will help Wisconsin improve Badger Care Plus. One source of financial assistance is an enhanced federal match rate for interpretation and translation services.The new rate,...
The Center for Children and Families today released the report “Weathering the Storm: States Moving Forward Despite Tough Economic Climate,” the first evaluation of CHIPRA implementation. "Weathering the Storm" finds that despite the tough fiscal climate in the states, 23 states moved forward in covering children this year. By taking...
The Crossroads section of yesterday's (Sunday 9/13) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contained a guest column by WCCF Acting Executive Director Jim Moeser. The piece comes in response to a horrific case in Milwaukee in which 13-year-old Labrina Brown is accused of fatally stabbing a family member. The case has brought to the fore a lot of...
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