Child Protection in the News
Reports find it hard for teenagers in foster care to transition into adulthood addressing a bump that leaves them falling behind in education
Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) has recently received much needed attention, but is by no means a new issue. Researchers have tried to approximate the scope of the problem, but it has proven extremely difficult to produce an accurate estimate of children who are victims of or at risk for CSEC in the U.S. State-level prevalence rates are equally difficult to produce.
Daryl and Roxann Gunnarson are restoring the former Butler County Children’s Home on a hillside on Hamilton’s South D Street so it can be a valuable resource for families of foster- and adopted children.
Wearing a shirt reading “Daddy is My Super Hero,” Mea Dills, 11, was celebrating the one-year anniversary of when her stepfather, David Dills, officially adopted her as his daughter.
In Ohio, 21.6 percent of the youth in foster care are ages 15-17 and are at risk of aging out of the system without fundamental emotional, legal, and / or financial support.
According to a Children Services November newsletter, in Ohio, more than
2,800 children are in foster care waiting to be adopted. Greene County Children Services is a division of the Greene County...
Muskingum County Children Services is recognizing November as National Adoption Month.
A first-of-its-kind report on the transition from foster care to adulthood shows Ohio teens and young adults lagging the nation in employment and education.
The number of children in custody of Children Services here in Ohio continues to grow. People who work in child welfare
say that increase has a direct connection to the opiate crisis.
