➡ 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...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Orange County declares May National Foster Parent Month (Press release) Orange County Government, Office of County Executive Steven M. Neuhaus - May 09, 2017 According to Steve Brescia, Chairman of the Legislature, Foster Parent Month provides an … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: Data can aid 'broken' child-protection system Phys.org - May 11, 2017 Jane Kovarikova doesn't mince words when it comes to how she feels about the child-protection system in Ontario and the fate of youth who have transitioned from or simply … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A closer look at littlest victims of schoolhouse assaults Associated Press - May 01, 2017 Student-on-student sexual assaults rise significantly during middle-school years, an Associated Press analysis of federal crime data found. But even as … [Read more...]