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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) are pleased to announce the availability of FY 2010 funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.

We've just added a new video series to FAMCare called: "Under the Hood” – a live motion video series that walks visitors through FAMCare’s built-in form development wizards and financial management tools.

The term human service in its self is broad. Typically it involves the processes of helping out any child or adult who is part of the government system for a reason. That reason could be child welfare, juvenile justice, or an adult with a need. The list grows daily… of people needing assistance of some sort from various human services departments – and so the case for a quality information system is also growing. Our team at Global Vision Technologies knows and understands these needs and we meet them by providing human and social services teams with software that affords excellent advantages. These software programs help to elevate human and social services information management practices.

A new federal study was discussed today that documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of seroius child abuse... especially sexual abuse. From 1993 through 2006 the total number of children that suffered from physican, sexual and emotional abuse dropped from 743,000 to 553,000 - a 26% decrease.

We uploaded a FAMCare intake and referral management document today on the FAMCare website. You can download the document by visiting the "Take a Tour of FAMCare" page. The document details the features of the management tool and screen shots.

Hello partners, clients and friends...

According to data from the 2009 Monitoring the Future survey, the perceived risk of using ecstasy, inhalants, and LSD continues to decline among eighth-grade students.

Although 43 percent of eighth-grade pupils perceived a great risk of using ecstasy once or twice in 2004, only 26 percent perceived such a risk in 2009. The perceived risk of using inhalants declined from 46 percent in 2001 to 34 percent in 2009. The perception of a high risk from using LSD once or twice dropped significantly from 42 percent in 1993 to 21 percent in 2009.

According to Lloyd Johnston, principal researcher for the study, these declines in risk perception undercut "a major obstacle to experimentation."

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For further information, see the University of Maryland Center for Substance Abuse's CAESAR Fax at www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/cesarfax/vol18/18-50.pdf

New grant opportunities have been posted and made available through the FAMCare website.  Grant funds for juvenile justice, child welfare, substance abuse and treatment can be found on the FAMCare Grant Resource webpage.

Go, Go, Go!  Great news from Washington regarding youth mentoring...  Please read the article below.

So we just returned from the CWLA Data and Technology Conference co-sponsored with NRCCWDT – The National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology. It was an interesting, informative event and a must-attend for next year. Put it on your calendars!