➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: How The Heroin Crisis Is Straining Foster Care Huffington Post - April 11, 2017 With the increase in children being placed into foster care, the foster care system is struggling to keep up. With roughly 450,000 children in foster care across the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Can the child welfare system handle trans children? Part Two Windy City Times - April 11, 2017 From the conversations, which her parents' groups have shared with those in Illinois, Martha told Windy City Times that she knows of two cases of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Bishops back bill to let agencies opt out of adoption for same-sex couples Catholic Herald - April 11, 2017 Three bishops, in a joint letter to the measure's sponsor, voiced their support of the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, which would … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Big Data's Latest Brainstorm: Target Poor People and Make Parents Suspects If They Ask For Help (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - April 11, 2017 SAS' evidence that its new approach works consists of pointing out that a lot of those it … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Japan: Japan has officially recognised a same-sex couple as foster parents Mashable - April 06, 2017 Japan has officially recognised a same-sex couple as foster parents, marking a first for the country and signalling a growing recognition of LGBTQ … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: States Seek Medicaid Dollars for Addiction Treatment Beds Pew Charitable Trusts - April 05, 2017 The federal government is encouraging all states to seek a waiver of Medicaid's residential treatment rule, but only if the care is offered as part … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Senators Lankford, Inhofe Co-Sponsor Bill to Protect Rights of Child Welfare Charities (Press release) Public Now - April 05, 2017 Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) have cosponsored the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Childhood sex abuse could accelerate puberty in girls, study finds CBS News - April 05, 2017 Researchers who've carefully tracked a small cohort of child sex abuse survivors over three decades say they've observed another phenomenon: that child … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: OP: The infamous Penn State scandal may have finally reached its concluding chapter Western Herald - April 05, 2017 This case may never reveal the full-hearted truth as Sandusky remains behind his claim to innocence, not to mention Paterno's own … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: ChildLine Staff Recognized for Child Abuse Prevention Efforts (Press release) Pennsylvania Department of Human Services - April 05, 2017 Today, in acknowledgement of Child Abuse Prevention Month, members of the Wolf Administration joined … [Read more...]