➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Brooklyn Borough President Launches Multilingual Anti-Child Abuse Effort Observer - December 03, 2016 In the wake of the discovery of a three-year-old Brooklyn boy with a cracked skull earlier this week and the death of a six-year-old Zymere … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: 'Hack-a-Thon' Hopes to Use Tech to Help the City's Child Welfare Agency Connect Foster Kids With Adoptive Families (Includes video) NY 1 - December 04, 2016 Coders are working with the Administration for Children's Services to tackle issues in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Greece: More Than 1,200 Unaccompanied Child Refugees Waiting for Suitable Accommodations Greek Reporter Greece - December 02, 2016 More than 1,200 unaccompanied child refugees are on waiting lists for a place in suitable accommodations, an associate … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Gambia: The Gambia, UNICEF Launch Child Protection Strategy 2016-2020 (Press release) United Nations Children's Fund - December 06, 2016 The Islamic Republic of The Gambia recently launched the National Child Protection Strategy 2016-2020, developed … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Some fear proposed rules will gut number of foreign adoptions Springfield News-Sun - December 04, 2016 Adoptions in U.S. have plummeted because of costs, corruption and restrictions in countries such as … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Senators Urge Passage Of Foster Care Reforms To Help Children Affected By Opioid Abuse Epidemic (Opinion) KRWG - December 05, 2016 U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich joined 23 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Parents home-schooling kids probed for 'educational neglect' New York Post - December 05, 2016 The Department of Education has been harassing parents who home-school their children, threatening to report them to child welfare for failing to … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: NYSED: Memos on schools as safe havens, Child Protective Services regulations and opioid overdose prevention New York State Center for School Health - December 05, 2016 These important memos have been shared by NYSED with school administrators. … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: Child welfare worker indicted for extorting sex from mothers he supervised NJ.com - December 05, 2016 A former state family services worker has been indicted on charges that he used his position to extort sex from two mothers he supervised during … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Law change gives unmarried fathers parental responsibility (Press release) Island of Jersey, Home Affairs Department - December 02, 2016 An amendment to the law relating to parental responsibility has come into force today. It means … [Read more...]