➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Tax Plan's Deficits Could Prompt Elimination of Major Child Welfare Programs (Commentary) Chronicle of Social Change - December 01, 2017 If Congress doesn't figure out how to pay for that gap, it will be within the power of the Trump administration … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Gig Economy Gives Child Support Scofflaws a Place to Hide Pew Charitable Trust: Stateline - December 01, 2017 The rise of the gig economy and a broad shift to contract work is making it easier for people to evade paying child support, causing … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Lawyers Working Pro-Bono to Help Children Obtain Legal Status (Video) WCVB - December 02, 2017 Thousands of unaccompanied children are apprehended at the U.S. border each year, trying to enter illegally. Those who appear in immigration court are not … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Montana kids counting on Congress to reauthorize CHIP (Commentary) Missoulian - December 03, 2017 While members of Congress are preoccupied with tax reform, millions of American children, including thousands of kids in Montana, are at urgent risk of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Relative Growth: Three States Increasingly Rely on Kin for Kids in Foster Care Chronicle of Social Change - December 04, 2017 Murdock's story has become a more common scenario in the past decade as the philosophy that relatives are the preferred … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: 5 Tips to ensure your unaccompanied minor is safe Viva Fifty - December 04, 2017 So, with travel season coming up and for parents that, like me, have to send their children as unaccompanied minors on flights, here are a few tips to protect your child … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Auditor General: Opioid crisis is pushing child protective system to breaking point Lancaster Online - December 01, 2017 The child protection system in Pennsylvania can't hold together under the strain of mandatory reporting and the opioid crisis, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Aller Retires After Lifetime of Helping Kids Centre County Gazette - December 04, 2017 Across Centre County, many children have Donna Aller to thank for a permanent, stable home. Aller can be credited with helping to modernize the county's foster … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: More US kids in foster care; parental drug abuse a factor Associated Press - December 03, 2017 The number of children in the U.S. foster care system has increased for the fourth year in a row, with substance abuse by parents a major factor, according … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Foster care placements increase in Herkimer County Observer-Dispatch - December 04, 2017 The county has experienced a 50 percent increase in foster care placements since 2015, with a fair share of them attributable to opioid use, said Tim Seymour, … [Read more...]