CHILDREN
Popular baby names for each state available
Did you check to see how popular your name is? Last week the Social Security Administration announced the most popular baby names nationally for 2012. For years after 1879 you can learn the national ...
Posted on 5/16/13 at 3:56 PM
Seventy Times Seven
I was an English major in college, which effectively means that I know how to read a long boring book and write pages and pages on symbolic interpretation that may or may not be valid. What a crucial ...
Posted on 5/15/13 at 2:01 PM
Surround Myself With Truth
Deuteronomy 4: 6-10 is a famous, familiar, and fantastic passage. After leaving Egypt, walking through the Red Sea, and being led by God by day and night, I would think that God should expect that ...
Posted on 5/6/13 at 6:17 AM
When to Say No: A parent's guide to giving adult children money
When I work with clients who give money to their adult children, I am always curious why. Since preparing a comprehensive budget is part of the counseling process, the topic often comes up. The adult ...
Posted on 4/12/13 at 9:56 AM
What To Do With Your Messy Child
So what do you do if your child is messy and you fear their future as a star on the show "Hoarders"? First be realistic. Is it really that bad or are you just imagining it? Second, start b...
Posted on 4/12/13 at 7:59 AM
‘Hard deadline’ set for tribe: Hoeven says officials will decide Sept. 10 on Spirit Lake Tribe running social services programs
Sen. John Hoeven, declaring “hard timelines are needed,” says officials have set Sept. 10 as the date to decide whether the Spirit Lake Tribe can continue running its social services programs or federal officials should.By By Patrick Springer , Forum Communications , August 28, 2012
Feds heading to Spirit Lake: Interior sending special team to review child protection programs
The U.S. Department of the Interior will dispatch a “strike team” of senior officials including the director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Spirit Lake Nation Monday, according to the department.By By Chuck Haga , Forum Communications , August 25, 2012
State says it has offered to help tribe protect children
An official in the North Dakota Department of Social Services has told a federal whistleblower that circumstances he reported concerning children at risk at Spirit Lake should go to the tribe’s social services office.By By Chuck Haga , Forum Communications , August 24, 2012
Official: Safety of Spirit Lake children not better
A federal human services administrator who called on state and federal officials to declare a state of emergency for children at the Spirit Lake Nation has submitted another scathing indictment of child protection services there, alleging that little has been done to improve the situation.By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications , August 18, 2012
Indian culture expert: Big hurdles in protecting reservation children
By By Chuck Haga , Forum Communications , July 23, 2012
ND Human Services plans event on children's issues
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A division of the North Dakota Department of Human Services is holding a four-day training seminar that will focus on children and family services.July 22, 2012
Player’s foundation gives to hospital
The Cullen Children’s Foundation announced Friday it was making a $1 million donation to the Sanford Health Foundation.By Forum Communications report , July 14, 2012
Dorgan: We need better response to abuses
Former U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan, who was chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee until his retirement in 2010, remembers a girl named Tamara, whose sad story drew him to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation many years ago.By By Chuck Haga and Patrick Springer , Forum Communications , July 14, 2012
Advocate speaks on child protection in Spirit Lake
Betty Jo Krenz can’t forget the desperate faces and voices she came to know while working with Head Start and foster-care children at Spirit Lake Nation.By By Patrick Springer and Chuck Haga , Forum Communications , July 14, 2012
Family grapples with the death of a baby girl
By By Chuck Haga and Patrick Springer , Forum Communications , July 13, 2012
Fed official wants Spirit Lake problems addressed
A federal human services official is urging sweeping steps to address alleged problems with socials services and foster care administration on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation in North Dakota.June 22, 2012
Proposal for day-care center at Bottineau college
Economic development officials want a privately run day care center at Dakota College in Bottineau.April 12, 2012
State child care grants available
Applications are being accepted beginning for the fourth round of state child care grants. The application deadline is Dec. 23.December 14, 2011
More questions on child support issues
Here are additional child support questions from readers that North Dakota Child Support Enforcement Program Director Jim Fleming answered.By Teri Finneman , December 05, 2011
Complaints abound for N.D. child support system, but officials say it’s among the best
By Teri Finneman , December 05, 2011
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