➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: How Policymakers Prioritize Evidence-Based Programs Through Law Pew Charitable Trusts - April 03, 2017 Policymakers seeking the best return on taxpayer dollars are increasingly focusing on cost-effective programs that have been proven to achieve … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Eye on NY: With direct care workers getting a raise, NY human services workers want one too Auburn Citizen - April 02, 2017 With the concerns raised by direct care workers addressed, human services organizations feel they should be next in line. … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Are the kids safe? Child welfare cases up sharply in last 6 months Staten Island Live - April 03, 2017 The number of child welfare investigations juggled by Staten Island caseworkers has gone up in the last six months despite recent deaths and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Mexico & US: In Mexico, a program attempts to help U.S. citizen kids deported with their undocumented parents Daily Kos - April 04, 2017 An educational program is helping some of the U.S. citizen children who have essentially been deported along … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Tsunami of UACs May Be Nearing an End Center for Immigration Studies - April 03, 2017 The crisis of unaccompanied minors (UACs) and family units being apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol is showing signs of going from a tsunami to a steady and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: State-sanctioned Ransom Should Have No Place in Child Welfare (Opinion) Youth Today - April 04, 2017 The Orwellian term typically used for these payments is "child support." But these payments from parents do not go to supporting their own … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Author Ties 'Whupping' of Black Kids to the Days of Slavery in 'Spare the Kids' Chronicle of Social Change - April 04, 2017 With the end of slavery, Patton states that "whupping was used as a survival tactic to teach black children proper racial … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: 'Raise the Age' bill concerns counties Press-Republican - April 04, 2017 Such a shift would put the responsibility of dealing with more younger people who are arrested with county Social Services systems instead of the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: India: Child adoption: relevant & contextual policy required Morung Express - March 26, 2017 Taking care of one's own child and an adopted child are two completely different matters. As tragic as this attitude may be, it has come to fore with … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: China: Adoption law needs reform (Opinion) China.org.cn - March 25, 2017 Helping every child born in China survive and grow up healthily is a common wish of all Chinese people. However, the current adoption law which contains a number of problems has … [Read more...]