Latest Child protection Stories

Kidpower, an internationally respected child safety advocacy and protection skills education nonprofit, launches its premiere summer institute this August in San Francisco to prepare educators and other professionals, volunteers, and parents with child safety advocacy and leadership skills to protect children from abuse, abduction and bullying within their schools, organizations, youth programs, communities and families. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2013 Kidpower, an internationally...

HARRISBURG, Pa., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Corbett, along with the Department of Public Welfare (DPW), is recognizing the importance of preventing child abuse and neglect this month as part of a statewide campaign to raise awareness of prevention efforts. Acting Deputy Secretary Cathy Utz, of DPW's Office of Children, Youth and Families, today presented a proclamation from Governor Corbett at the annual child abuse prevention breakfast in Harrisburg,...

TexProtects (The Texas Association for the Protection of Children), Texas Council of Child Welfare Boards and Child Advocates from Across the State Give a Voice to Abused and Neglected Children AUSTIN, Texas, April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of Child Protection advocates wearing blue and white and donning blue ribbons  rallied at the State Capitol on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 12 p.m. advocating for protecting Texas Children.  TexProtects and The Texas Council of Child Welfare...

AUSTIN, Texas, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TexProtects, The Texas Association for the Protection of Children, hosted a news conference today at the Texas State Capitol to emphasize the need for funding that would result in an increase in state-funded home visits for families who are at the highest risk for a variety of child-related problems. At the conference, Representative John Zerwas, M.D., Chair of the House Appropriations subcommittee on Health and Human Services, announced a...

HARRISBURG, Pa., March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania System of Care Partnership will add five additional counties to the program, serving 125 more children with severe emotional disabilities in the efforts to keep them with their families and avoid out-of-home placements. The new counties joining the program in 2013 are Crawford, Greene, Northampton, Northumberland and Venango counties. Counties continuing to participate are York, Chester, Montgomery, Lehigh,...

Stephanie Beasley Yoder to lead the provision of mental health and child welfare services to children and families in Marion and Johnson Counties. Indianapolis, IN (PRWEB) March 04, 2013 Adult and Child Center is proud to announce Stephanie Beasley Yoder has accepted the position Director of Child Services effective March 11, 2013. Ms. Yoder has an MSW from IU and currently teaches in the MSW program at IUPUI. She began her child welfare career as a Family Case Manager (FCM) with the...

The first ever review of abuse cases related to child death or serious injury in Northern Ireland will be launched at Queen's University today (24 January 2013). The review, Translating Learning into Action, was commissioned by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) and was carried out by researchers at Queen's University and the NSPCC. The Case Management Review (CMR) report – the first to be produced in Northern Ireland - analyzed 24 case reviews relating...

HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett today released the following statement applauding the Task Force on Child Protection, a panel created by the General Assembly, for its review of state laws and procedures governing child protection and the reporting of child abuse. "I want to thank the task force - especially the chairman, David Heckler - for leading such a comprehensive review of our child protective services laws and regulations,''...

Child protection professionals are to be offered new guidance on how best to involve families in the case reviews that follow the death or serious injury of a child as a result of abuse or neglect. A report being launched today (Monday November 12) will reveal the results of a study led by experts at The University of Nottingham and commissioned by the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN). The research explored the personal experiences of...

ATLANTA, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Boy Scouts of America joined with the nation's leading youth-serving nonprofits and nationally recognized experts at the National Youth Protection Symposium to provide a vital opportunity for nonprofit youth-serving organizations to discuss the subject of child sexual abuse prevention, hear from leading experts in the field, and share ideas on best practices to collectively find more effective ways to address this issue. (Logo:...