➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Military families struggle with jump in child abuse Tribune Washington Bureau - December 30, 2016 The Pentagon has struggled to deal with a little-noticed cascade of child abuse and neglect cases in military families in the years since America … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Guidelines for Implementing the Indian Child Welfare Act Federal Register - December 30, 2016 This notice announces the availability of the Department's new Guidelines for Implementing the Indian Child Welfare Act. These guidelines are intended … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A Look Back at 2016: The Year in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Chronicle of Social Change - December 30, 2016 The rise and fall of the Family First Prevention Services Act does seem to be in line with the "up is down, down is up" mood of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Roberts Announces Updated BIA Guidelines to Strengthen Implementation of the Indian Child Welfare Act with Focus on Family Unification Native News Online - January 01, 2017 Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Study shows foster care may be bad for children's health Knowridge Science Report - January 02, 2017 Children who have been in the U.S. foster care system are at a significantly higher risk of mental and physical health problems than children who … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: In William Penn schools, a season of struggle with no end in sight Philadelphia Inquirer - January 01, 2017 When a middle-of-the-night fire badly damaged a rental house in Darby Borough in late November and left a mother and four children … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: The surge in narcotic overdoses is affecting everyone Philadelphia Inquirer - January 02, 2017 From 2000 to 2012, there was a five-fold increase in the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome - equivalent to one baby suffering … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Agency faces lawsuit over death of child in foster care Standard Speaker - January 02, 2017 Wilkes-Barre residents Nichole Puscavage and Anthony Cook filed suit against the agency in January 2016, accusing caseworkers of "sheer incompetence" for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: When foster care puts kids in peril (Opinion) New York Daily News - December 31, 2016 Child welfare has been down this road before. A high-profile tragedy involving a death of a child "known to the system" - this time, Zymere Perkins - is … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Child Care Scarcity Has Very Real Consequences For Working Families (Includes audio) National Public Radio - January 03, 2017 What happened to Walia's family is rare. But it's the deepest fear of parents who face severely limited child care … [Read more...]