IN THIS ISSUE Policy Spotlight: Memorial March to Honor Lost Children Court Opinions: In re Interest of Mya C. Legislative Actions: 2015 Child Welfare Interim Studies Announcements: Ethics CLE, Appleseed Blog POLICY SPOTLIGHT Memorial March to Honor Lost Children Last Wednesday, advocates for Native American children led the 13th annual Memorial March to Honor Our […]
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This post is from Appleseed Child Welfare intern Skyler May. In the past few months, Nebraska Appleseed has written extensively about the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (or “SFA”) and the recently released report, “Letting Kids Be Kids: Nebraska’s Implementation of the Strengthening Families Act” which includes implementation recommendations from more than
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IN THIS ISSUE Policy Spotlight: Letting Kids Be Kids: The Implementation of the Strengthening Families Act in Nebraska Court Opinions: In re Interest of Joseph S. et al., In Re Interest of Enyce J. Legislative Actions: 2015 Child Interim Studies Announcements: Through the Eyes of the Child Initiative Lecture Series 2015, Appleseed Blog POLICY SPOTLIGHT Letting
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Important work is underway in Nebraska and nationally to improve “normalcy” for children and youth in foster care. In September 2014, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (also known as the Strengthening Families Act or SFA). Last week, a group of Nebraska child welfare stakeholders released a
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***For Immediate Release*** October 22, 2015 Contact, Jeff Sheldon Communications Director, Nebraska Appleseed Office: (402) 438-8853 Mobile: (402) 840-7289 Email: jsheldon@neappleseed.org Child welfare group releases new report on Normalcy for foster youth Stakeholders release report in conjunction with interim study on implementing Strengthening Families Act LINCOLN — Thursday, a group of Nebraska child
In this September edition of “Appleseed in Action”: Tell Congress to fight child hunger Many Nebraska families report facing food hardship Newspaper series highlights need to expand Medicaid Local leaders attend grassroots leadership workshop Tickets now available for the 2015 Good Apple Awards Meet our 2015 Summer Law Clerks and Interns Tell Congress to reauthorize
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In This Issue Policy Spotlight: Implementing the Strengthening Families Act in Nebraska Court Opinions: No cases this issue Legislative Actions: 2015 Child Welfare Interim Studies Announcements: Good Apple Awards, Appleseed Blog Policy Spotlight Implementing the Strengthening Families Act in Nebraska This month, a group of Nebraska stakeholders including youth, foster parents, and other advocates convened
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Over the last couple weeks on ABC Family’s “The Fosters,” Callie has been designing an app to help foster youth for her independent study class in school. Last week Callie finally pitched her new app, “Fost & Found” to her friends at Girls United (GU), a group home for youth in foster care. The app
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In this August edition of “Appleseed in Action”: Celebrating Medicaid’s 50th birthday Improving access to children’s behavioral health treatment New Americans share their stories at World Refugee Day Introducing 2015 Good Apple Awards honorees Appleseed is hiring Fall interns Meet our 2015 Summer Law Clerks and Interns Celebrating Medicaid on its 50th Birthday One of
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Can you imagine growing up and never attending a sleepover at a friend’s house? Or being a huge Nebraska Huskers football fan but not being able to attend a game because you were in foster care? It is hard for me to imagine what it would be like to grow up and miss out on
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