Read this week's blog post, Adolescent Brain Development: The Child Welfare – Education Intersection, by Candi Mayes, JD, MJM, CWLS.

Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases, (AKA The Red Book) is now in its 3rd edition. Visit Bradford Publishing to purchase.

Congratulations to our newest Child Welfare Law Specialists!

Lori Gershon from Greensboro, North Carolina, David Grimmett from Nashville, Tennessee, and Kim Smith from Shreveport, Louisiana.

 

The Atlantic
Over the past couple of decades, a veritable who’s who of investors and entrepreneurs has seen an opportunity to apply market discipline or new technology to a sector that often seems to shun both on principle. Yet as attractive and intuitive as these opportunities seemed, those who pursued them have, with surprising regularity, lost their shirts.

Huffington Post
Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America — they’re happening in our nation’s K-12 schools, too. Increasingly police have become "embedded" in schools, in many cases working there full-time.

The New York Times
That black adolescents receive harsher disciplinary punishments at school than their white peers for the same offenses is troubling enough. But federal data showing that even at the preschool level black students are nearly four times as likely to be suspended as their white peers is especially shocking.

The Chronicle of Social Change
Foster children are entering the foster care system in moderately increasing numbers. At the same time, we have fewer foster families who can meet their needs. Due to major changes in family life over the past generation, the situation is not likely to get better.

Youth Today
A proposed federal tax credit aims to encourage employers to hire former foster youth as they transition out of the child welfare system.

Lambda Legal
For years, Juliet Evancho, Elissa Ridenour, A.S. and other transgender students at Pine-Richland School District in suburban Pittsburgh, used restrooms that matched their gender identity. What disasters did this commonsense, inclusive practice cause?

Rosa Gonzalez, BA, JD, CWLS

Rosie received the Adele Advocate for the Poor Award, has been inducted into the Order of Barristers, and is a recipient of the Presidential National Leadership Award. She is a past Commissioner on the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Commission on the Status of Latinas in the Legal Profession and is a board certified attorney/specialist in the area of Child Welfare Law by the National Association of Counsel for Children. Rosie's NACC profile can be viewed here.

John Stuemky, MD

Dr. Stuemky is board certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Stuemky serves on the NACC Board of Directors and is Medical Director of the Child Protection Team of The Children's Hospital at the OU Medical Center.

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