At least one-third of children in foster care have physical or mental disabilities and are at higher risk for poor educational, employment and well-being outcomes. This report from the National Council on Disability finds that federal investments are undercut by lack of coordination across programs and agencies. It offers recommendations for policymakers.

Here's a nonprofit social network (think MySpace or Facebook) for social workers, foster parents and others interested in improving the lives of foster and adoptive youth.

I was somewhat surprised when I recently came across the following paragraph on the Voices for America’s Children Website: “As a society we pay a steep price for allowing one in five of our nation’s children to live in poverty. Economists estimate the annual national cost of persistent childhood poverty due to lost adult productivity and wages, increased crime, and higher health expenditures is massive: approximately $500 billion or four percent of the nation’s gross domestic product”...

Mississippi plans a serious overhaul of its child welfare system to do more to protect the approximately 3,400 abused and neglected children in its care. Here's an overview of the details of this comprehensive reform plan, developed as a settlement of a class action lawsuit brought against the state by Children's Rights.

Seven years ago, a piece of paper on a desk started Pamela Pine on a quest to understand and spread the word about child sexual abuse. In this column, Pine shares how she turned her concern into a vibrant, dynamic nonprofit organization—with an annual international awareness-raising foot race in Washington, DC, every April.

Carolyn Lehman presents the stories of survivors of sexual abuse. The accounts of abuse are unflinching, but the focus is on healing and eventual recovery.

Unlike the more familiar juvenile offender justice system, it�s not always clear how the juvenile victim justice system works, and how the many agencies serving young victims of crime—from police and courts to child protective services and mental health agencies—interact. This bulletin looks at how cases move through the system and the typical processes in the juvenile victim justice system.

CFK reports from: Child Well-Being: Their Present, Our Future
Event: A Briefing on America�s Children: Key National Indicators of Child Well-Being, released by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
Organized by: America's Promise
Where/When: Washington DC, Thursday September 22, 2005

Members from non-profit organizations and government agencies gathered at an annual policy seminar conducted by The Alliance for Youth to discuss the latest data on child well-being and how this data should be used to inform federal policy in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The briefing was to discuss the biennial release of America's Children: Key National Indicators of Child Well-Being, a compilation of statistics gathered by a collaboration of 20 agencies collectively known as the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics that provides data on education, health status, social development and other measures of how children are faring.

Our mission is to recruit and train community volunteers to stand up in court for abused and neglected children.

The Center for Children is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse through intervention, counseling and education. We empower children and their families to heal the wounds of abuse.