A Child Needs You! Louisiana’s Children Need More Foster Homes.
Child welfare professionals were delighted in 2013 when the Congressional Budget Office reported the number of children in foster care… Read More
Child-poverty: Louisiana’s Steady-state Crisis
Good evening, Friends! I attended the 2nd National Building Bridges Initiative this week so I missed some of the daily… Read More
Child Well-being Deja Vu
Have you ever read an old document and, as you settled into it, you found yourself confused about whether you… Read More
Louisiana Department of Health Focuses on Opioid Epidemic
Bad enough for parents, parental opioid abuse is especially harmful to children and has lifelong consequences for them including removal… Read More
Louisiana Legislature Acts for Children
While the budget debates during the Louisiana Legislature’s first Special Session of 2017 kept child advocates on the edges of… Read More
No Excuse Remains, Louisiana
There is no longer any excuse for ignoring Louisiana’s children. For anyone who has waited for the condition of Louisiana’s… Read More
Louisiana’s Infant Mortality Rank Among Nations
Earlier this month our blog posted an article titled, “Infant Mortality: Louisiana Lags Latvia“. The chart below graphically represents the… Read More
Too Few Louisiana Children Receive Necessary Dental Care
Louisiana’s Children in Crisis: Too Few Louisiana Children Receive Necessary Dental Care 03/17/2017 A few years ago, a bowl of… Read More
Louisiana Still Needs Therapeutic Group Homes for Children
7/10/2015 – A year has passed since the June 2014 release of the advocacy paper, “Louisiana’s Children are Being Placed… Read More
Louisiana Ranks 49th in Children’s Well-being, Ten Years in a Row
This sad story is growing old. For the 10th consecutive year Louisiana is ranked as the 49th worst state in… Read More