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A new first-of-its-kind app and companion website, called FosterPower, provide foster youth with comprehensive but easy-to-understand information about their rights to mental health care, education and legal protections.Developed by Bay Area Legal Services, a nonprofit law firm in Tampa, Fla., with funding from a 2021 Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grant, FosterPower is designed to empower the more than 20,000 children in Florida's child welfare system with information about their rights.

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND!Today will be temperate and dry, but there's a weather shakeup in our future, or so say some meteorologists: heads up for rain later this weekend and early next week.

For Chanetto Rivers, the birth of her third child went relatively smoothly.About an hour after she arrived at the hospital in the Bronx, she was holding her newborn son.But while she was pushing, in a maternity room crowded with doctors and nurses, someone asked a question: Had she consumed drugs or alcohol?

More than 180 complainants have come forward since last May, yielding a wealth of new intelligence about paedophiles who infiltrated the borough's care system.The support scheme was launched last year, more than three decades after whistleblowers first reported that Islington's care system had been "infiltrated by paedophiles".

No part of Scotland was immune to abuse of children in foster care over more than eight decades, an inquiry has heard.The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) has been told of physical, sexual, psychological and emotional abuse, neglect and exploitation since public hearings for the foster care case study opened in May.

Barbara Kingsolver has made history after becoming the first author to be awarded the Women's Prize for Fiction for a second time.The American author, 68, scooped the prestigious literary prize for her tenth novel Demon Copperhead after previously winning in 2010 with The Lacuna.Set in the Appalachian mountains in Virginia, her latest work is a modern retelling of Charles Dickens' classic David Copperfield.

Irish actor Barry Keoghan has promised to drop in to his old school in Dublin after winning a Bafta film award.The Banshees Of Inisherin star, 30, dedicated his best supporting actor prize to Ireland and the kids that are dreaming to be something from the area I come from, as he was given the award at the ceremony in London on Sunday night.

An Afghan asylum seeker and convicted triple killer has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 29 years after murdering an aspiring Royal Marine outside a Subway takeaway shop.Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was on the run from murder charges in Serbia when he arrived in the UK but his violent past went undetected and he even managed to dupe officials into believing he was 14 up to six years younger than his actual age.

The NBC series "Chicago Fire" is under fire from safe haven law advocates worried that viewers might be misled by a recent episode involving a baby box.The problem, as they see it, is that while some states allow the boxes, Illinois doesn't.But the problem with safe haven laws is far more serious.

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1. Mental health risks for racial and ethnic minorities can be persistent and long-lasting effects of trauma. 2. The National Institute of Mental Health’s Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity is hosting a webinar

1. Ambiguous grief is a type of grief felt when a person experiences loss or trauma but cannot properly process it due to the lack of information or a tangible source of grief.
2. It is important to recognize the symptoms of ambiguous grief, which can include feelings of confusion, helplessness, guilt

A charity which supports torture victims has defied Home Office demands to delete a video of Suella Braverman being confronted by a Holocaust survivor over her language on immigration.Freedom From Torture has said the Home Secretary should be ashamed of her dehumanising rhetoric and it will not be pressured into helping her hide it by taking down the clip.

The city's overnight drop-in centers for homeless and runaway youth, which are serving a rising number of young people, received a jarring message last month: Effective immediately, providers are required to discontinue the practice of allowing youth and young adults to sleep overnight.At least one of the centers has responded in turn: no.

Hundreds of children in south east London are being looked after by the council, figures show, while dozens of families with children face the prospect of homelessness this Christmas.While many of us will be tightening our belts this winter, charities are urging the public to give what they can  as thousands of young people across the country face a tough Christmas.

A Labour MP has urged the Government to publish the details of how many incidents of violence or sexual assault against children have occurred in hotels used to house asylum seekers.Stella Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow, said more cases have come to light of children allegedly being sexually assaulted in hotels for migrants.

Roughly a third of California youth in foster care identify as LGBTQ.So, to ensure their home environments are affirming, one state senator wants to enhance the screening process for prospective foster caregivers through a new state law.SB 407, announced Friday by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would create a standard for documenting needs for LGBTQ youth and measuring whether those needs are met in at-home assessments for foster families.

Thousands of students in school districts across New York show up to school while dealing with homelessness, according to state data.Nearly 80,000 New York students were homeless during the 2021-2022 school year, the data says.The vast majority of those - more than 66,000 - were in New York City.That's 7.3% of all students in the city.

Ashley Gjurich was in the middle of a eulogy for her slain sister, Nicole Santillanes, when a small hand reached up and squeezed her shoulder.It belonged to her 8-year-old niece - Santillanes' daughter - who had sidled up next to Gjurich when her voice began to crack with emotion.More than 50 of Santillanes' friends and relatives gathered Tuesday for a candelight vigil outside a South Los Angeles apartment building where police say the nursing assistant and mother of four was stabbed to death over the weekend by her estranged boyfriend, Richard Lara.
"Everything's going to remind me of her when I'm going to take care of her kids, because I know she would do the same thing for me," Gjurich told the crowd, wiping away tears.

Celtics Jaylen Brown also led Team LeBron in scoring, but it wasn't enough to take down Tatum and Team Giannis.SALT LAKE CITY - Jayson Tatum put on a record-setting show, and made Giannis Antetokounmpo look like a genius.Tatum scored an All-Star Game-record 55 points, and Team Giannis ended LeBron James's hold on All-Star captain supremacy by beating Team LeBron, 184-175, in the NBA's annual showcase exhibition on Sunday night.

Probation officers failed to properly explore or record violent killer rapist Damien Bendall's risk of serious sexual harm to girls, despite police concerns that he was associating with a vulnerable teenage girl in care.Chief inspector of probation Justin Russell said Wiltshire Police's child sexual exploitation team wanted to give Bendall, who is now 33, a child abduction warning notice (Cawn) in March 2020 for his involvement with a 16-year-old girl.

When you see Dolphins fullback Alec Ingold firing off the line of scrimmage, taking a running start and knocking the mess out of some Buffalo Bills defender in Sunday's wild-card playoff game, consider what it means for him to be there.Better still, allow Dolphins running backs coach Eric Studesville to relate to you what it means to Ingold.

Suella Braverman has refused to apologise to a Holocaust survivor who said the Home Secretary's description of migrants as an invasion was akin to language the Nazis used to justify murdering her family.Ms Braverman was confronted by Joan Salter, 83, during a meeting in her Fareham constituency in Hampshire on Friday evening.

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one.Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Dec. 19-26.Details and times are subject to change.THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022) 7 p.m. on HBO.Heated language and cold fingers fly in this dark comedy from Martin McDonagh, about two old buddies, Padraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson), whose friendship meets a sudden end.

What I missed in those encounters with Goldin - hidden behind the chain smoking and the weary laugh - was the power, stubbornness and battle-hardened courage that helped her take on the Sacklers.That's the revelation in the new documentary about Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, out now in limited release.

A rising number of lone migrant children are being found in hotels having been mistakenly identified as adults, the chief inspector of Ofsted has said.Amanda Spielman said she is very concerned about the trend and is worried that vulnerable children could be lost from sight and at risk of exploitation.

ACC boasts a 93% placement rate for cats and dogs and 96% for guinea pigs  numbers that make the hard work worth it.So far the hard work is done  the bill has received the necessary supermajority vote  but city council is stalling in the final step of the approval process.Last year they worked with the organization Voters for Animal Rights to garner support for a bill that would ban the sale of guinea pigs in New York pet stores.