Subject: Social Work

• Indiana Has a Pain in the ACS

  January 11, 2007

• Chaney to the Rescue? Hey, That's What He Says.

  December 12, 2006

• Cute? Creepy? Why, Yes.

  November 13, 2006

• Just say yes

  October 3, 1996

• The lies that BIND

  May 1, 1997

• Careless

  After an infant died in a Cedar Hill foster home, state investigators turned up evidence of neglect and greed. The worst thing is, they already knew.

  July 15, 1999

• The Good Books

  October 25, 2007

• Orphaned

  The most troubled kids get short shrift in state care

  July 26, 2007

• Out of Focus

  A shift in AIDS funding from services to drugs threatens poor patients

  August 17, 2006

• Little Lost Boys...and Girls

  Is the move to privatize Child Protective Services leaving huge gaps in care?

  November 2, 2006

• There Goes the Neighborhood

  One couple's bad, strange relationship entangles their neighbors

  December 8, 2005

• Better Homes

  September 15, 2005

• A Place of Their Own

  Tom Dunning's homeless task force learns an old lesson: If at first you don't succeed, try again.

  March 24, 2005

• Garbage to You

  Homeless people, like all of us, own things that can't be replaced

  January 13, 2005

• Absent Without Leave

  Think cutting class is child's play? Tell it to the judge.

  April 24, 2003

• All Shook Up

  A little Hawaiian girl and her sister adopt a destructive mutant in Lilo & Stitch

  June 20, 2002

• Sweetheart Deal

  How does Virginia McGuire make a profit in the nonprofit business of creating affordable housing? Simple. She pays her husband.

  April 25, 2002

• Thanks, But No Thanks

  Turning down millions in state money to build juvenile boot camps, Tarrant County opted for a different approach--one that works

  September 27, 2001

• For God and Country

  For a South Oak Cliff church considered a model for mixing faith and government, the line between church and state is thin indeeda

  February 22, 2001

• Girl Talk

  April 30, 2009

• Conference Highlights Dallas's Unique Approach to Treating Prostitutes as Victims

  ​Dallas has developed a growing reputation as one of the few cities in the country to treat prostitutes as victims, whether through unique programs for under-age targets of human trafficking or specialty courts that help convicted sex workers create new lives. And so, two years after the Dallas Police Department started its Prostitute Diversion Initiative -- which, as noted here, will soon add DNA testing to its arsenal -- city officials kicked off the first National Prostitute Diversion Confe

  November 3, 2009

• Paradise Leashed

  November 6, 2009