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NCHCW teams up with Casey Family Programs, ChildTrends, and CWLA to present 2011 Child Welfare Responses to Youth Homelessness panel at the NAEH Annual Conference. 

Click here to view the ChildTrends presentation

Click here to view the NCHCW presentation

Click here to view the CWLA presentation

Good Samaritan provides home to reunite family in Houston.
HOUSTON—A KHOU 11 News viewer donated a house to a married couple who lived in a northeast Houston storage shed with six children.

The donation came just days after the couple was featured on KHOU 11 News because Child Protective Services had taken custody of their kids. The parents said they believed they were being punished because they’re poor.　

"You shouldn’t take our kids because we’ve fallen on hard times," said Prince Leonard.

The Leonards moved in three years ago after the father, an unemployed welder, was hired as a maintenance worker.
Click here to read the full article and view the story on KHOU.
Click here to start a discussion about this story with the new NCHCW Google group.

HUD PROVIDES $15 MILLION IN RENTAL ASSISTANCE
TO HELP NEARLY 2,000 FAMILIES STAY TOGETHER
Grants will keep children out of foster care, young adults from homelessness

WASHINGTON – In 2009, an estimated 423,773 children lived in foster care in the U.S. as case workers helped to reunite them with their families or primary caregivers. Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced nearly $15 million to help public housing authorities reunite foster children with their parents or prevent them from ever entering the foster care system.  To read the NCHCW press release click here. To read the HUD press release click here. To view the list of sites that received new vouchers, please click here.

Click here for a cumulative list of HUD FUP funding from FUP's inception in 1992 through the most recent HUD award in June 2011

Washington City Paper reports on family's heartbreaking housing-child welfare dilemma

D.C. Social Worker Offers Brutal Choice To Homeless Mother
Posted by Jason Cherkis

What you can find on the NCHCW website 

This website contains information about how to end homelessness among families and youth through solid partnerships between housing providers and the child welfare system including: 

Please take our survey!  
NCHCW has launched a Surveymonkey survey to collect valuable information from communities nationwide about housing resources and ideas.  We are also taking your suggestions and comments through this survey. Please take a few minutes and complete it. 
Click here to access the survey.

 

Washoe County receives $1.7 million grant for housing for families who would otherwise lose children 

12:00 AM, May. 25, 2011  
 
Washoe County put together a winning bid for a $1.7 million federal grant to buy housing for 10 families with children who would otherwise be in foster care because of inadequate housing. The grant marks the county's first venture into public housing. Read the rest of this article by clicking here.