TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – As technology is continuing to dominate our world with social media and online gaming, it’s increasingly difficult to keep children safe while using internet-capable devices. The Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center hosted an event in Winnsboro for East Texas parents to learn more about keeping their children safe in a technology-driven
As we move into the 2024 Budget and election period, ACT disability organisations have issued wide ranging statements and submissions calling for a whole of government push to meet the needs of people with disability across all ACT government directorates as well as a boost for struggling and underfunded disability advocacy. Launching a shared 2024/25
New Brunswick’s child, youth and seniors’ advocate has issued a sweeping and scathing denunciation of how the provincial government runs social programs, saying the system is fixated on following rules rather than achieving results. Kelly Lamrock traces the problem back three decades and blames it for what he calls the “breaking down” of a range
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Daniel Wiederhold, born with a rare and usually fatal type of brittle bone disorder, was one of the lucky ones. Wiederhold received caregiving services from a specialized state health care program — after
The New Brunswick government has few measurable goals for the money it spends on social services, a systemic flaw that is putting the province’s safety net on the brink of failure, says a new report from the child, youth and seniors’ advocate. Kelly Lamrock’s 49-page report, titled “How It All Broke,” describes a government that
The New Brunswick government has few measurable goals for the money it spends on social services, a systemic flaw that is putting the province’s safety net on the brink of failure, says a new report from the child, youth and seniors’ advocate. Kelly Lamrock’s 49-page report, titled “How It All Broke,” describes a government that