child trafficking

May 2014

The Foster Care to Child Trafficking Pipeline

By |2016-12-01T19:33:02-06:00May 7th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , |

Today's guest blogger is Ashley Booker. The article “Stopping the Foster Care to Child Trafficking Pipeline” by Malika Saada Saar was posted on the Huffington Post October of 2013 (Saar, 2013). The article began with Saar sharing that most of the children being sexually exploited in the United States are children who have been involved with [...]

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March 2014

Protecting foster kids from sex trafficking

By |2016-12-01T19:33:03-06:00March 14th, 2014|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , , |

Today's guest blogger is Jodie Glaspie. The article "Protecting foster kids from sex trafficking" by Thanh Tan, focuses on foster kids being more susceptible to being coerced by sex traffickers into prostitution.  Every month, more than 100 kids in Washington run away from foster care. In Washington’s King County at least 500 minors work in [...]

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August 2011

General child welfare-related legislation in the U.S. Congress

By |2016-12-01T19:33:22-06:00August 4th, 2011|Categories: CASCW at the Capitol|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Last update: 8-17-2011 (updates highlighted in yellow) This is a list of current child welfare-related bills in the U.S. Congress. Although I attempted to ensure that it is an exhaustive list, I may have missed one or more. If you know of a child welfare-related bill that is not in this list, please let me [...]

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