➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Helping Our Homeless Students Huffington Post - March 20, 2017 Efforts are underway to bring the challenge and opportunity of student homelessness to light and to bolster efforts by communities, states and the nation to do more about it. Schools … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Health and behavior problems can linger after child abuse Reuters - March 20, 2017 Children who have suffered from abuse or neglect may have physical or behavioral health problems even after the mistreatment stops, new guidelines for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Heitkamp, Murkowski, McCollum, Cole Urge President and Key Administration Leaders to Prioritize Commission on Native Children, Appoint Members (Press release) Office of U.S. Senator for Alaska Lisa Murkowski - March 22, 2017 U.S. Senators Heidi … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Goodlatte Statement at Markup of the Child Protection Improvements Act (Press release) U.S. House Judiciary Committee - March 22, 2017 House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following remarks during the House … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Former administrators testify at trial of ex-Penn State president (Includes video) WHTM - March 22, 2017 Two former Penn State administrators say they should have done more following a 2001 complaint that Jerry Sandusky was seen with a boy in a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Harder for Homeless to Enter N.Y.C. Shelters, Report Finds New York Times - March 21, 2017 More homeless families are being denied permanent shelter in New York City, and many are being forced to reapply multiple times before the city finds them … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Guatemala: Death toll in Guatemala fire rises to 39 girls; key official ordered not to leave country (Includes video) Associated Press - March 12, 2017 The president has blamed the government's "rigid" and "insensitive" system for dealing with … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Turkey: EU-UN cash transfer plan for education aims to reach 230,000 refugee children in Turkey United Nations News Center - March 17, 2017 The European Union and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have launched a large-scale cash transfer … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Syria: Whole of Syria: Child Protection Snapshot, January - December 2016 Relief Web - December 31, 2016 The child protection sector in Syria is comprised of approximately 58 partners including, UN, INGO, Syrian NGO and government agencies operating … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: Advocates concerned about unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Canada Regina Leader-Post - March 16, 2017 While official statistics are hard to come by, experts say they're hearing more and more stories about unaccompanied minors who are … [Read more...]