Child & Family Services

The children and family services market encompasses a wide range of services and supports for children who are involved with the child welfare system and/or who have complex physical and behavioral health conditions. For organizations serving children, the market challenges are increasing – from increased incidence of serious child mental health issues and autism, to a lack of community-based placements for children with complex needs, to increases in family involvement in the child welfare system due to parental opioid use, to uncertainty in the special education sector about the implications of new federal policies.

Latest Resources

• Wuoti v. Winters & The Vermont Department For Children & Families
• Antonucci v. Winters & Vermont Department For Children & Families
• Vermont DCF Practice Guidance: Supporting Conversations With Foster Care Applicants About Caring For LGBTQ+ Youth
• San Francisco Specialized Foster Care Pilot For Sexually Exploited Youth Resulted In Better Outcomes
• ACF Advises State Child Welfare To Avoid Child Removals Solely Due To Parental Lack Of Support For A Child’s Gender Identity
• Survey Finds Children In Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, North Dakota, Rhode Island, And Utah Have Most Resilient Childhoods
• Are You CCBHC-Ready? Preparing for the 2026 SAMHSA Funding Cycle
• Households With Two Children Must Earn $402,708 To Comfortably Afford Child Care
• Omni Family Of Services Acquires JusticeWorks YouthCare
• Between 2016 & 2021, Youth Medicaid & CHIP Diabetes Prevalence Increased By 11.4%
• Louisiana To Stop Diverting Federal Benefits For Foster Children
• Risk Of Medicaid Disenrollment Highest At Age 19 Among Young Adult Beneficiaries
• Louisiana Executive Order Number JML 26-021: Directing The Department Of Children & Family Services To Preserve Federal Earned Benefits For Eligible Children In Foster Care
• Women & Infants Hospital’s Community Mobile Health Clinic To Provide Postpartum Care In Rhode Island
• Federal Child Welfare Funding Expanding To Include Medications For Opioid Use Disorders

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School-Age Children With Long COVID Have More Functional Limitations, Higher Absenteeism

Among school-age children, those living with long COVID were more than twice as likely to report functional limitations, such as memory problems and difficulty concentrating, compared to children who did not have long COVID, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among children who have had COVID-19, those who had long COVID were more likely to have illness-related chronic absenteeism (defined as missing 18 or more days of… Read

• Administrative Costs Rise Per Child As Title IV-E Foster Care Caseloads Decline
• Nearly 20% Of U.S. Households Report A Child Needing Mental Health Treatment; One-Quarter Report Unmet Need
• KidsPeace & Lehigh Carbon Community College Launch Training/Certification Partnership For Mental & Behavioral Health Care Workforce
• Administrative Costs Drive Foster Care Claims & Are Increasing Per Child As Caseloads Decline
• State Medicaid & CHIP Toolkit For Children’s Behavioral Health Services & The Early & Periodic Screening, Diagnostic & Treatment (EPSDT) Requirements

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