Group to protest DHHS hearing – North Platte Telegraph
Department of Health and Human Services providers throughout North Platte will join forces with the Family Advocacy Movement (FAM) to protest the lack of public input at today’s informal hearing regarding LR 568, which is designed to review and assess reforms within HHS.
Nashville will launch center to target family violence | tennessean.com | The Tennessean
The Nashville Family Connections Center will coordinate the work of multiple government and nonprofit agencies to try to reduce the number of children and youth exposed to family violence.
Alaska Children’s Services Marks 120th Anniversary
Alaska Children’s Services, an Anchorage-based ecumenical facility with Methodist roots, is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year.
Child abuse expert hired for Philadelphia’s DHS | Philadelphia Inquirer
Mayor Nutter announced Thursday that he had hired a child-abuse expert who has intimate knowledge of Philadelphia’s child-welfare system as the city’s first medical director of the Department of Human Services.
Guardian of child abuse victims suing state for $40 million | KOMO News – Seattle, Washington
The state’s Child Protective Services – and ultimately the taxpayers – are facing another multi-million dollar lawsuit for failing to protect vulnerable children.
Marian Wright Edelman: Children Need Better Protection from Abuse and Neglect
In January 2008, four sisters were found dead in their southeast Washington, D.C. home. The girls, ages 5, 6, 11 and 17, had been murdered by their mother, Banita Jacks, months earlier. She was recently convicted and sentenced to 120 years in prison. None of the District of Columbia’s social service agencies or the police intervened to save the girls despite some alarming signs that they were in great peril. The Jacks case is by no means isolated.
U of I experts to aid state in evaluating child abuse | The Des Moines Register
In the wake of a series of serious injuries and deaths of children who were previously abused, Iowa’s Department of Human Services has contracted with University of Iowa Hospitals to use a variety of medical experts to better evaluate cases of suspected child abuse.