➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: When Foster Care Overrides Common Sense (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - February 15, 2017 Last month I wrote a column called "Why the 'Foster-Care-at-All-Costs' Crowd Will Never Surrender Their Horror Stories." I offered those wedded to a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Has Trump Order Put Internationally-Adopted Children at Risk? (Includes audio) Public News Service - February 16, 2017 An Asheville mom had an unpleasant surprise this week when she called the Social Security Administration and discovered her … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Grand jury report blasts NY foster care system Associated Press - February 15, 2017 A foster parent accused of sexually abusing boys in his care could have been stopped years earlier if not for "abysmal" communication among the child-welfare … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: International: Study looks at ways to prevent homelessness among youth with intellectual, developmental disabilities (Includes video) Medical Xpress - February 13, 2017 Taking place in Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara, the project is bringing together- … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Social services costs skyrocket Rochester Post Bulletin - February 11, 2017 Starting in 2017, counties are facing a new cost with out-of-home placements: Making sure social workers are available to respond and evaluate within 24 hours. In a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: Ontario judge rules in favour of 'Sixties Scoop' survivors Vice - February 14, 2017 An Ontario court has ruled in favour of thousands of Indigenous people who were stripped of their cultural identities when they were taken from their homes on … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: An athlete accused her coach of sex abuse. Olympic officials stayed on the sideline Washington Post - February 14, 2017 A Washington Post examination of the case, based on a review of thousands of pages of documents produced from a lawsuit filed … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Fewer Foster Parents in Monroe County (Includes video) WHEC TV-10 - February 14, 2017 More than 400 children are pulled out of their homes every year in Monroe County, and between the opioid crisis and the rising poverty level, it could be … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Social services commissioner: More people working Leader-Herald - February 09, 2017 In other statistical data provided by DSS, most of the caseloads were down. Fulton County's foster caseload decreased by about 18 percent, from 45 cases in 2015 … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Attorney General seeks to dismiss claim by New London parents against DCF Day - February 09, 2017 The state Office of the Attorney General has filed a motion to dismiss a claim brought by the parents of a New London toddler who suffered broken … [Read more...]