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Troubled Toddlers Improve With Quality Child Care
According to The Wall Street Journal, new research is showing that high-quality child care can make a difference with difficult children as they mature.
Wired for Anorexia
The Los Angeles Times reports on a theory that suggests people with anorexia may have faulty wiring that connects eating to anxiety and depression.
Going to Pot
The debate continues on how harmless or harmful marijuana can be, reports The New York Times.
Money Talks
NPR.org reports on how behavioral economics can help people change.
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| Editor’s E-Note |
 High-profile cases of child abuse and neglect awaken us to the vulnerabilities of the child welfare system. We are shocked, sad, and angry that children are allowed to slip through the cracks of a system badly in need of overhaul. We hear the names, are outraged at the horrid details of the cases, and know that there must be thousands more children living in abusive, neglected environments that either never make the headlines or will some day soon.
Frequent attempts are made at correcting antiquated systems, improving supervision, lowering caseloads, and other tools to make children safer, but one group of child activists and experts has joined with IT and business professionals to work on a unique project that complements the traditional attempts to protect kids at risk in the child welfare system. This month’s E-News Exclusive reports on who’s involved, how the project got started, and what it hopes to accomplish.
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Information Portability in Child Welfare
By Juliann Schaeffer
The child welfare system may soon receive a big, and much-needed, shot of IT—with the potential to drastically improve both children’s and caseworkers’ safety.
The Information Portability Project, started by a partnership among the University of Pennsylvania’s Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research; Montgomery County, PA; Stewards of Change; Microsoft; and Motorola, is “designed to bring technology that currently exists in the business world to child welfare,” says Debra Schilling Wolfe, MEd, executive director of the field center. “The goal is to improve safety, decision making, and efficiency.”
Wolfe says the initiative’s impetus came from the frustrations one colleague, Richard Gelles, PhD, dean of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice and one of the field center’s faculty directors, has been raising for years. Wolfe summarizes: “Why is it that FedEx knows where any package is at any given moment and eBay can track bids on millions of items in real time, yet we don’t know what children that have been reported to the child welfare system have been seen and can’t accurately track kids who are in foster care? That’s pretty scary.”
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