Archives for May 2017

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Government urged again to adopt 1997 Stolen Children recommendations (Includes audio) SBS World News Radio - May 23, 2017 It's been 20 years since the landmark Bringing Them Home report was released in 1997. It brought the forced removal … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: The RAND Approach to Child Welfare: Cutting Cost, Improving Outcomes Chronicle of Social Change - May 22, 2017 Today, the RAND Corporation issued a report describing how federal child welfare policy could be changed to improve outcomes for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Facebook's Leaked Child Abuse Guidelines Anger Parents and Advocates Fatherly - May 22, 2017 Facebook is here to stay and, unfortunately, so are the challenges that come with moderating the horrific images of abuse that occasionally surface … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Are We Helping Kids in 'Kinship Care'? (Opinion) (Includes video) Medscape - May 22, 2017 By 2013, 7.8 million (1 in 10) children in the United States were being raised in a home where the head of the household was a grandparent or other … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A Better Way to Ensure Educational Stability for Foster Kids (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - May 22, 2017 While educational stability is an important goal, it seems somewhat incongruous to use Alex's story to illustrate how the new … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Golden wants commission to study child abuse prevention Brooklyn Daily Eagle - May 23, 2017 Families in which children are in grave danger of being abused have only a small number of programs that can help them avoid tragedy, according to state … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Dominican Republic: UN expert urges Dominican Republic to place child protection at core of tourism strategy United Nations News Centre - May 18, 2017 Those who come to the Dominican Republic to sexually exploit children must know that they will be … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: Indigenous children lose cultural connection in child welfare system CBC News - May 18, 2017 The Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Society recently released a breakdown of how many Indigenous children were in its care compared to other "minority … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Bhutan: Committee on the Rights of the Child Considers Reports of Bhutan United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) - May 18, 2017 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third to fifth periodic report … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A New Meth Surge Gathers Momentum Pew Charitable Trust: Stateline - May 18, 2017 The opioid epidemic has killed tens of thousands over the last two years and driven major reforms in state and local law enforcement and public health policies for … [Read more...]