John Kelly
Host at The Imprint Weekly
Senior Editor at The Imprint
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
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at long last released annual data from the Adoption and Foster Care Reporting and Analysis program, or AFCARS. While the standard PDF version of the report is available, this year also included the launch of a new dashboard for AFCARS. The upside: The dashboard makes public a lot more data elements than have been out there in the past.
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3 weeks ago |
imprintnews.org | John Kelly
Two key pieces of the reconciliation bill being moved by congressional Republicans will be marked up this afternoon, one by the House Energy and Commerce Committee and one by the House Ways and Means Committee. Neither enter those markups with cuts directly targeting child welfare and youth justice.
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3 weeks ago |
imprintnews.org | John Kelly
The number of youth in foster dropped by 6.9% in 2023, according to new federal data released late last week. There were 343,077 youth in foster care on the last day of September, according to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, or AFCARS, which is the collection process by which state information on the nation’s foster care systems flows up to the federal Administration for Children and Families (ACF). That is 21% less than the most recent peak of 437,010 in 2018.
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1 month ago |
imprintnews.org | John Kelly
The Trump administration released its “skinny budget” outlining proposed changes to discretionary spending, which seeks to lop $163 billion out of non-defense programs compared with the 2025 level included in the series of continuing resolutions that funded the government this year.
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1 month ago |
imprintnews.org | John Kelly
A group of Democratic senators notified the Trump Justice Department that it would review the decision to terminate hundreds of grants already funded and approved by Congress.
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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…
