Children & Youth Services News
News and information on the role that government, small business, the nonprofit sector and philanthropy play in creating healthy and vibrant communities.
A study by the Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC) entitled "The Third Shift", findings show that the high cost of child care, scarcity of child care assistance, and narrow access to care...more
Child care can be expensive and most parents typically resort to ask their kin for help in babysitting their children.
Placing foster care children with their relatives was considered taboo in the...more
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern New Mexico is currently seeking new volunteer mentors for their "Just ONE" campaign after it added more children to the program.
Those interested in...more
Due to the sequestration, Head Start programs have eliminated services for 57,000 children in the US this coming school year.
The cuts are geared to supposedly balance budgets that have been...more
The Foyer, run by Curo, is an accommodation center for homeless youth that provide free creative cooking classes.
The training room at the Foyer is transformed into a makeshift diner for Free Food...more
Houston, in an effort to improve its human services, was in a federal pilot program testing a myriad of ways to count homeless young adults.
However, it seems that homeless teens are hard to...more
In a study led by a team of researchers at Duke Medicine, kids who live in economically disadvantaged homes are more prone to smoke cigarettes and binge on other illegal substances than their...more
Youth Count!, an interagency initiative that develops strategies for counting unaccompanied homeless youth, addresses unaccompanied youth as a "hidden problem".
Policymakers focused on the issue...more
Children and Family Services (CFS) in the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services aims to return children in state custody safely to their families.
Thanks to CFS, Nebraska is seeing...more
According to the Department of Health and Human Services officials, the number of U.S. child abuse and neglect victims dropped for the sixth consecutive year in 2012.
A report also indicates that...more
