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Administration, Private Foundations Announce $35 Million Initiative To Stabilize Highest-Risk Families

June 5, 2012 | News Release

New program pairs supportive housing and social services to strengthen fragile families and avert foster care placements.

Administration, Private Foundations Announce $35 Million Initiative to Stabilize Highest Risk Families

June 4, 2012 | Story

Recommended Reading Keeping Families Together: A Pilot Program and Its Evaluation Keeping Families Together Watch the video: Home. Stronger, Together Thanks to a new approach to stabilizing fragile families involved with the child welfare system, a ...

Aging Out of Foster Care: The Unmet Needs of Youth

February 23, 2009 | Program Result Report

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies issued Aging Out of the Foster Care System to Adulthood: Findings, Challenges, and Recommendations, a report on the unmet needs of youth in America.

"Super" Case Managers Help Families Access Child Health Services in Arkansas

October 1, 1997 | Program Result Report

One of the biggest barriers that keeps low-income families from getting the health services they need for their children is the sheer number of agencies they have to visit. Each agency is in a different location and has its own requirements and staff.

Los Angeles-Based Program Develops Five-Year Business Plan to Enhance Services for Children in Foster Care

March 1, 2007 | Program Result Report

The Rowell Foster Childrens' Positive Plan developed a five-year business operating plan to structure its growth and expansion to enable it to enhance the services provided to foster children in Los Angeles County.

Hawaiian Health Foundation Launches Program to Diagnose and Treat Child Abuse Victims Entering Foster Care

March 31, 2007 | Program Result Report

In 2002, the Kapi'olani Health Foundation created the Child At-Risk Evaluation (CARE) program, a pediatric specialty clinic specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of child abuse.

Harvard Law Professor Faults Strategies for Protecting Abused Kids

September 26, 2002 | Program Result Report

Starting in 1997, Elizabeth Bartholet a law professor at Harvard Law School, researched and wrote Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative.

Social Impact 100 Index

November 27, 2012 | Grant/Feature

Ten grantees from the Vulnerable Populations Portfolio at RWJF have been named to the Social Impact Exchange's S&I 100, an index of the top nonprofits having a positive impact on America's most pressing social issues.

Way to Grow Program Meets Children's Health Needs to Prepare Them for School

October 1, 1997 | Program Result Report

Tynisha LaDuke's entry into kindergarten didn't seem like the kind of event that would get an article in the newspaper. A healthy, eager-to-learn five-year-old, she was exactly the kind of student every teacher hopes for.

Babies Can't Wait

January 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

Starting in March 2001, New York State's Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children developed and implemented a pilot training project in the Bronx family court system called "Babies Can't Wait."

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