As lawmakers debate work requirements in Medicaid expansion bills, Walker faces a Catch-22: she first needs health insurance to get healthy enough to be able to return to work.
By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times Libby’s Friends, a nonprofit that assists families with a child who has a disability, has won its share for accolades for great work including “Best Local Cause” twice and “Family of the Year” once, but Lane Hagan, who serves as Executive Director of the group, said there’s more. […]
Exclusive: Action by organisation supporting migrants argues new rules are discriminatoryAn organisation that supports migrant workers has launched a legal challenge against the government’s new policy to bar care workers from bringing children and partners to the UK, warning that it is “tearing families apart”.According to Migrants at Work, care workers have to choose between family life with their children and partners or getting a job as a health or social carer in the UK – they can no longer...
The Western area currently has the highest number of children living in care (712) that it has ever seen and there are simply not enough foster carers as numbers continue to grow. They need more foster carers so children can be placed with families where they can be safe, nurtured and loved. The fostering team is currently recruiting for all types of foster carers as part of their ‘Life’s a Journey – Could you be a part of mine? campaign. There are many ways that you can make a difference to a...
Finding child care is a struggle for many parents across Central Oregon. In this week's Special Report, Jillian Fortner takes a look at how NeighborImpact and COCC are working together to create hundreds of new child care spots.
The Western area currently has the highest number of children living in care (712) that it has ever seen and there are simply not enough foster carers as numbers continue to grow. They need more foster carers so children can be placed with families where they can be safe, nurtured and loved. The fostering team is currently recruiting for all types of foster carers as part of their ‘Life’s a Journey – Could you be a part of mine? campaign. There are many ways that you can make a difference to a...
Sir David Attenborough has been replaced as the narrator on a special instalment of Planet Earth III on Monday.
Children with additional needs wait an average of 11 months longer in care than their peers and voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs) are urgently looking for people who can offer them a permanent and loving home. Local adoption charity and voluntary adoption agency, Adoption Matters, is among 21 VAAs from all over the UK who have together created a guide for people considering adoption containing helpful information and advice from parents who have already adopted children with additional needs....
VOLUNTARY adoption agencies across the UK have joined forces to find more adoptive parents for children with additional needs.
Shafaqna English- Children in the State of Palestine have been caught in a tragic and vicious cycle of violence for too long, and the killing of children needs to stop, UNICEF Regional Director Adele Khodr said. Children in the State of Palestine have been caught in a tragic and vicious
Manage your mum’s care from a distance. Don’t get sucked into her orbitThe question My father was violent and my mother emotionally fragile. I took on a parental role from the age of around 11, trying to manage my dad’s moods, keep my mum’s spirits up and take care of my younger brother. Mum often leaned on me and I felt responsible for her stability. We were often punished in cruel ways. I was also abused sexually by a family “friend”. When we finally escaped our father, Mum moved this friend...
It's the most fundamental of processes—the evaporation of water from the surfaces of oceans and lakes, the burning off of fog in the morning sun, and the drying of briny ponds that leaves solid salt behind. Evaporation is all around us, and humans have been observing it and making use of it for as long as we have existed.