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When a Child Dies

How to cover the worst day in a family's life. Tap into JCCF's free online training module. (Photo by April Saul)

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What Makes Screen Sense?
The Homestretch
KIDS COUNT

Fresh data on child well-being in a changing America

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LIFELINES: Stories from the Human Safety Net

A JCCF original reporting project on social work.

(Photo by Jeffrey Thompson, MPR)

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The End of Juvenile Prison
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Welcome to JCCF

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For reporters, editors, producers, educators, and students, JCCF aimed to deepen, spotlight, encourage and support media coverage of the complex and urgent issues that affect children, youth and families in the U.S. Learn more »

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JCCF is now closed. If you have just discovered us, or if you have come to depend on JCCF for news and inspiration about children, youth and families, we invite you to explore our archive.

Health and Development, Parenting

Prenatal Testing: When a Result Is Not a Diagnosis

The New York Times
K.J. Dell'Antonia
It's unclear the extent to which fetal DNA testing for chromosomal disorders has improved results.
TAGS:
pregnancy
Economics, Housing and Homelessness, Families and Communities

The Year in Inequality: Racial Disparity Can No Longer Be Ignored (Opinion)

Al Jazeera America
Ned Resnikoff
In this opinion piece, Resnikoff says the racial wealth divide is a persistent fact of American life and is getting worse.
TAGS:
poverty
Teens and Young Adults, Special Populations

In Transgender Teen's Fight, Echoes Of Others

NPR
Barbara King
A 15-year-old transgender student in a southern state was born female but wants use the boys bathroom at school. The school board isn't so sure.
TAGS:
LGBT, transgender
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Child Welfare, Economics, Crime and Justice, Health and Development, Education, Families and Communities

Losing a Voice for Children

Friday, December 05, 2014

As JCCF closes its doors, center director Julie Drizin reflects on the reasons it opened in the first place and the changes faced by American families during JCCF's 21 years.

Child Welfare, Economics, Education, Health and Development, Families and Communities

Why a Reporting Project on Social Work? Why Not?

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

A little backstory on how and why JCCF pursued and produced an original reporting project on the field of social work.

Parenting, Violence

Coz and Effect

Friday, November 21, 2014

How many women have to say “me, too,” and brave recounting one of the worst experiences of their lives before the public can believe that Bill Cosby, a beloved, admired “role model” violated women in such a shocking and disgusting way?

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Education, Child Care and Preschool, Parenting

In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy (Book Review)

Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Two professors reach a startling conclusion in their new book on child care policy in the United States: “We, as a society, do not value children and families.”

“In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy” by Elizabeth Palley and Corey Shdaimah, examines why there has... Read more

Crime and Justice, Detention and Incarceration, Juvenile Courts, Juvenile Criminals and Victims, Prevention and Rehabilitation, Teens and Young Adults, Health and Safety, Parenting, Violence

How Long Will I Cry? Voices of Youth Violence

Friday, August 01, 2014

“This book began with a brutal murder, a viral video and a cup of coffee..."

The introductory sentence of “How Long Will I Cry?” pulls you in like magnet, then traps you in a whirlwind of human misery that touches down, rips through Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, leaving a... Read more

Child Welfare, Neglect and Abuse, Foster Care and Adoption, Economics, Safety Net, Housing and Homelessness, Work, Health and Development, Teens and Young Adults, Education, K Through 12, Families and Communities, Demographics and Immigration, New American Children Term, New American Children JCCF, Parenting

The Homestretch

Thursday, July 24, 2014

The Homestretch, a new documentary by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly, immerses us into the raw reality of the lives of three homeless youth in Chicago who teeter on the edge of hope. We teeter with them for 90 memorable minutes.

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The Journalism Center on Children & Families will close at the end of 2014 when our funding runs out. For the past two decades, JCCF has helped inspire, support, spread and reward excellent reporting on kids. We've trained and assisted hundreds of journalists in every kind of media, in every part of the United States.

JCCF thanks our founding and longtime primary supporter, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, the University System of Maryland Foundation and other foundations that have contributed to our successful run as the nation's only journalism center devoted to deepening coverage of children and families. We also wish to thank all of the people who have served on our staff, advisory board and as judges in our annual Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism contests.

Keep fighting for the airtime, the word count, the column inches and the resources to deliver stellar reporting about children, youth and families. Keep building bridges with youth media in your communities. Keep telling stories that change lives.

LIFELINES is dedicated to independent and spirited reporting on the multi-faceted profession of social work and the many ways social workers empower people to change their own lives. 
 
What started as a conversation between JCCF and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) about misunderstandings and mistrust between journalists and social workers blossomed into a multimedia project aimed at building bridges between these fields. 
 
LIFELINES shares the stories of young people overcoming child abuse, depression, family conflict, and students coping with military deployment of their parents.The project profiles immigrants fleeing homophobic violence in their home country and domestic violence in their homes. Two stories show different approaches to homelessness in urban America and one shines a spotlight on poverty in rural America. And, the series visits innovative programs that provide parenting education, support for transgender people, and help women recover from addictions and stay out of the criminal justice system. And more!
 
Now is your turn to dive in. Get caught up in the Human Safety Net. Share the content, the resources and your reactions on the LIFELINES Facebook page.

 

JCCF is now closed. If you have just discovered us, or if you have come to depend on JCCF for news and inspiration about children, youth and families, we invite you to explore our archive, and highly recommend that you check out, bookmark or subscribe to feeds and newsletters from these sites and sources that may be off your radar:

Child Welfare in the News 

Motherlode: Living the Family Dynamic

Stateline

Juvenile Justice Information Exchange

Chronicle of Social Change

ACES Too High

Womens eNews

Pacific Standard

Youth Today

Colorlines

New America Media

Equal Voice News 

Latina Lista

Economic Hardship Reporting Project 

Reporting on Health

For the latest research on children and families – and access to experts – reach out to the following:

KIDS COUNT (Annie E. Casey Foundation) 

Foundation for Child Development

ZERO TO THREE

Child Trends

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

Urban Institute

Institute for Women's Policy Research

Center on the Developing Child (Harvard University)

Society for Research in Child Development

Chapin Hall

The Future of Children (Brookings Institution)

Mathematica Policy Research

First Focus

Economic Policy Institute

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Journalist's Resource

Dart Center on Journalism & Trauma

Institute for Justice & Journalism

Poynter Institute - News University 

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Open Wide: Many Need Free Dental Care

Journalism students present team coverage of the Mission of Mercy Health Equity Festival, a pop-up dental clinic that served over 1200 patients for free September 4-6, 2014. 
 

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