Archives for August 2016

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Foster Care to Reunification: Navigating the Child Welfare System (Includes audio) Psych Central - August 14, 2016 We know that children do well when they are raised by parents who are intentional in their parenting, who are proactive, provide … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Interaction between adoptive, biological parents can benefit kids (Opinion) Business Standard - August 15, 2016 For most of the 20th century, adoptions were largely "closed", meaning birth parents placed their child with an adoption agency and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: ESSA strengthens services for homeless students District Administration - August 15, 2016 Districts and states that have done the best job graduating homeless students have now seen some of their practices enshrined in federal law as part of the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Immigrant Mothers Stage Hunger Strike for Freedom (Includes audio) Public News Service - August 15, 2016 Federal courts have ruled that children, with or without parents, cannot be held in immigration detention for more than 20 days. And the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Judge rejects public advocate's settlement in foster-care case Politico - August 12, 2016 In a blistering decision that marks a significant victory for Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, a federal judge on Friday struck down a proposed … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: New chief named for UK's troubled child sex abuse inquiry Associated Press - August 11, 2016 The British government has named a child protection expert to head a problem-plagued inquiry into decades of child sex abuse. Home Secretary … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Philippines: DepEd promotes safe and free from fear environment for learners (Press release) Philippines Dept. of Education - August 12, 2016 Children must be protected from all forms of abuse and violence, and schools must provide an environment … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: International: Two-thirds of young people in more than 18 countries say they have been victims of bullying (Press release) UNICEF - August 12, 2016 More than nine out of 10 young people believe bullying is a pervasive problem in their communities, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: International: The rapidly declining practice of international adoption The Mercator - August 12, 2016 So why have these numbers dropped so dramatically? Partly because many of the "sending" countries, like China, have adopted the Hague Convention on … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: India: Adoption: The new digital way home Live Mint - August 12, 2016 Take this little fact: Neither the census nor any other Union government study seems to have tried to record the number of orphans or destitute children in the … [Read more...]