New programs at Eliada Homes address statewide foster parent shortage

Summer can bring challenges for children without a stable place to call home, but Eliada Homes is expanding its residential ...
American Enterprise Institute

Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse

This commentary reviews current means-tested federal benefit programs designed to assist low-income individuals and families. The large number of those programs is amplified by similar state and local ...
WNEM-TV

Program aims to increase child welfare workforce

MICHIGAN (WNEM) - Five universities in Michigan are partnering with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to help increase the number of child welfare workers in the state. The ...
Medical Xpress

Program found effective in helping reduce stress among child welfare service providers

Child welfare professionals work in a stressful environment. Seeing families at risk of having children removed from the home frequently results in occupational trauma, burnout and negative health ...
abc27

Child welfare agencies are buckling under staffing shortages as Pa. debates using opioid money to help

Ed Mahon reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2024 Data Fellowship and received engagement mentoring and funding. Spotlight PA is an independent, ...
Western Michigan University

School of Social Work

Western Michigan University is now offering a pathway for students interested in becoming child welfare professionals to learn more about child welfare-related work. Graduate students currently ...