In the News
The deficit Texas didn't see coming
Stateline.org October 18, 2010
Among the Perry administration's proposals is a plan to cut about $21 million out of the state's child abuse and neglect prevention programs ...
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=521130
25 Percent surge In child abuse cases reported in Texas
KSAT 12 News October 18, 2010
CASA reports Child Protective Services already is seeing a 25 percent increase in cases of abuse and neglect: 4,567 confirmed in 2009 and 14 deaths in the CPS region that includes San Antonio.
http://www.ksat.com/news/25432900/detail.html
DHR part of unique study
Brewton Standard October 13, 2010
Changing how the case workers approach clients and involve them in their own cases is part of a three-county study by researchers at the University of Maryland, Barnes said. The DHRs in Escambia, Baldwin and Mobile counties are in the third year of a five-year study to change how they assess dangers to children and how they respond to families.
http://www.brewtonstandard.com/2010/10/13/dhr-part-of-unique-study/
Court to hear case over child interviews involving alleged sex abuse
CNN International October 12, 2010
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an emotionally divisive dispute on when children can be interviewed about sex abuse allegations without a warrant and without parents present.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/12/us.scotus.child.interviews/
Children often the victims of cycle of domestic abuse granting joint custody not always the best course (Editorial)
Chron.com (Houston, Tex.) October 12, 2010
In WarrenCounty, police said increasing heroin use is helping to drive a 41 percent increase in demand for foster care, in particular for newborns through age 6.
www.wlwt.com/news/24678170/detail.html