John Kelly
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Co-Executive Director, Fostering Media Connections. Senior Editor, The Imprint. Host of The Imprint Weekly Podcast.
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1 week ago |
imprintnews.org | John Kelly
In 1997, the vast majority of federal welfare funds flowed to states and then directly into the households of low-income families. Now, such direct assistance makes up about a quarter of the $16.5 billion spent annually through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, with the rest going to programs and services nominally aimed at helping alleviate poverty. And child welfare systems are one of the biggest recipients of that money.
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2 weeks ago |
imprintnews.org | John Kelly
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is no longer a member of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, Youth Services Insider has confirmed. Last year, Mace served as a co-chair of the caucus and showed up in that capacity to make some brief remarks at a December reception honoring the 25th anniversary of the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.
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3 weeks ago |
imprintnews.org | Michael FitzGerald |Michael Fitzgerald |John Kelly
Federal prosecutors have sought dismissal of a disputed assault charge against a well-known foster youth advocate, who U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace accused of violently shaking her hand while asking her to protect transgender youth, court records show.
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1 month ago |
imprintnews.org | John Kelly
President Donald Trump has nominated Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Alex Adams to lead the agency that handles child welfare services and federal funding and policy for many other family and child programs. “I am grateful to President Trump for his nomination of yet another Idahoan to a key post, and I am excited to see the positive changes to come at HHS with Alex in such an important leadership position,” Idaho Gov.
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1 month ago |
imprintnews.org | John Kelly
Over the summer, the Biden administration announced a pilot project to test new approaches to measure the effectiveness of the federal welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF. Just after the election, it was announced that California, Maine, Kentucky, Minnesota and Ohio would participate in the pilot. This week, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) pulled the plug on this experiment, at least in its current form and with its current participants.
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RT @TheImprintNews: Federal prosecutors today withdrew U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace's assault charge against a foster and trans youth advocate. htt…
For years I nagged DOJ about what became of this report, which first got funded in 2010. It's finally public, it's fairly dated, but it's still the best look at what happens (and what often doesn't) once a youth is charged as an adult in the United States. https://t.co/FY3pMuUpIZ
RT @TheImprintNews: A bipartisan bill now before Congress would require states to track their reliance on “hidden foster care," a widesprea…
