On Wednesday, November 19, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing on “Protecting Our Children’s Mental Health: Preventing and Addressing Childhood Trauma in Indian Country.” The hearing took place one day after the Department of Justice’s Task Force on American Indian and Alaska Native Exposed to Violence released a scheduled report. The 258
January 24, 2007 The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), representing public and private nonprofit, child-serving member agencies across the country, is pleased to submit testimony to the Ways and Means Committee this morning. The issue of the economic and social costs of poverty to our country is one that deserves a great
CWLA Testimony May 10, 2002 The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) welcomes this opportunity to submit testimony in behalf of our more than 1,175 public and private nonprofit child-serving member agencies nationwide regarding the reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant and its impact on Native Americans. We
CWLA Testimony April 25, 2002 The Child Welfare League of America welcomes this opportunity to submit testimony in behalf of our more than 1,175 public and private nonprofit child-serving member agencies nationwide regarding barriers to employment that affect the hardest-to-employ individuals, as part of the reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
CWLA Testimony April 11, 2002 Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, I am Shay Bilchik, President and CEO of the Child Welfare League of America. I welcome this opportunity to testify in behalf of more than 1,175 public and private nonprofit child-serving agencies nationwide on the reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for
CWLA Testimony December 18, 2001 The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), representing 1,160 public and private nonprofit child-serving agencies, offers the following recommendations regarding the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF). The well-being of children should be the primary goal of TANF. Our comments emphasize what we see as the issues