Child abuse, neglect cases remain high as Louisiana aims to fill hundreds of caseworker jobs
Child welfare officials removed more than 50 endangered children in Baton Rouge and New Orleans from their homes last month.
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Louisiana CASA
- Jan 9
- 3 min
State Launches Hotline for Reporting Juvenile Sex Trafficking
Hotline is latest tool in state’s expanding effort to combat the crime (BATON ROUGE, LA) - Louisiana has launched a hotline for receiving...
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Louisiana CASA
- Jan 3
- 1 min
Applications are being accepted for the Louisiana Scholarship Program
Applications for the Louisiana Department of Education scholarship program are being accepted for the 2023-2024 school year....
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Louisiana CASA
- Dec 27, 2022
- 4 min
Louisiana child welfare workers face high caseloads, lack of support, survey finds
A large portion of Louisiana’s child welfare workers say they remain passionate about the work they do, but nearly half aren’t satisfied...
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Louisiana CASA
- Dec 22, 2022
- 2 min
Louisiana providing families with $1,000 tutoring vouchers
(BATON ROUGE, LA) - The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) is launching a new program that will provide thousands of families with...
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Louisiana CASA
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
DCFS aiming to combat manpower shortage, hiring statewide
Leaders at the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services say they are taking steps to ease a severe problem with manpower and...
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Louisiana CASA
- Sep 9, 2022
- 2 min
ZERO TO THREE Awarded $5 Million to Strengthen Infant-Toddler Court Program
ZERO TO THREE, the country’s leading nonprofit dedicated to ensuring babies and toddlers have a strong start in life, today announced it...
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Louisiana CASA
- Sep 2, 2022
- 2 min
ACLU urges Supreme Court to uphold Indian Child Welfare Act
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 14 states represented by Cooley LLP, filed an amicus...
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Louisiana CASA
- Aug 31, 2022
- 6 min
Louisiana’s most troubled teen offenders could be moved to Angola
Incarcerated youth from across the state deemed the most troubled and aggressive could be moved to a building on the grounds of the...
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Louisiana CASA
- Aug 8, 2022
- 7 min
Drop Box for Babies: Conservatives Promote a Way to Give Up Newborns Anonymously
Written by Dana Goldstein, New York Times After Roe, groups are seeking to expand safe haven laws, which allow women to surrender babies...
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Louisiana CASA
- Aug 5, 2022
- 2 min
Louisiana approved to issue P-EBT benefits to children ages 0-5 on SNAP
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) received federal approval to issue Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) benefits to...
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Louisiana CASA
- Aug 5, 2022
- 2 min
Impact of Murray-Kaine Child Care & Early Education Proposal
Child care is too expensive and far too difficult to find for most families, while providers make far too little. The Child Care and...
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Louisiana CASA
- Aug 1, 2022
- 3 min
Grassley, Hassan Propose Improvements To Foster Family Recruitment Efforts To Help Foster Youth
Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) introduced bipartisan legislation that seeks to improve recruitment,...
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Louisiana CASA
- Jul 31, 2022
- 2 min
House Bill Would Establish Protections for Disabled Parents
A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that seeks to ensure federal protections for disabled parents...
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Louisiana CASA
- Jul 29, 2022
- 4 min
What 'Back to School' Means for Foster Youth
Back to school is an exciting time for most kids. But for children in foster care, returning to school comes with its own set of...
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Louisiana CASA
- Jul 29, 2022
- 3 min
5 Tips to Prepare Foster Youth for Back to School
The times of sleeping late on weekdays, summer camp and family trips to amusement and water parks are over for your child in care – at...
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Louisiana CASA
- Jul 14, 2022
- 2 min
Federal food assistance program may help prevent child abuse: Study
The federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) not only allows more than 39 million Americans to avoid food...
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Louisiana CASA
- Jul 5, 2022
- 2 min
NCSL Welcomes 2022 Early Childhood, Child Welfare and Youth Homelessness Fellows
For the first time, NCSL’s Early Childhood Fellows, Child Welfare Fellows and Youth Homelessness Fellows will meet together. 70...
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Louisiana CASA
- Jul 1, 2022
- 5 min
US child welfare system is falling short because of persistent child poverty
Although government spending on the child welfare system totaled US$33 billion in 2018, the most recent year for which an estimate is...
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Louisiana CASA
- Jun 27, 2022
- 5 min
Progressive Prosecutors Look to Germany for Juvenile Justice Reform
In a policy brief released today, progressive prosecutors make the case for the German approach to youth justice, calling it a...
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