➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Commentary: Many foster-care youth unprepared for independent living Philly.com - November 14, 2016 Philadelphia is working to end youth homelessness in the next 100 days, as part of its four-pronged approach to the city's Street Homelessness … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Serbia and Kyrgyzstan: Child protection treaties come into force Marilyn Stowe LLP - November 14, 2016 This month, the 1996 Child Protection Convention became binding in Serbia. Meanwhile, the rules of the 1993 Intercountry Adoption Convention were … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Kenya: Residents advised to follow legal adoption process Kenya News Agency - November 14, 2016 Members of the public intending to adopt children from vulnerable backgrounds must strictly follow the prescribed legal process, a children officer has … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Now to the issue of alleged abuse and neglect in residential care homes for foster kids (Video) MSN News - November 15, 2016 Problems in the sector were revealed on last night's Four Corners program. Here's part of that … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: York CYF downgraded license expires Tuesday; fate uncertain York Dispatch - November 15, 2016 York County's Office of Children, Youth and Families is awaiting word of its future as its fourth - and supposedly final - downgraded license is set to … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: Court: NJ can't consider mom 'abusive' just because of eviction from filthy apartment NJ 101.5 - November 12, 2016 An Essex County mother cannot be considered abusive or neglectful just because she and her four children were kicked out of their … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: New London parents file request on son's behalf to sue DCF for $20 million The Day - November 14, 2016 The parents of a toddler who suffered broken bones and starved in a Groton foster home sent notice to the state Thursday that they plan to sue … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Russia: Russia-America Adoption Ban: With Trump As President, Russia Might Drop Its Adoption Ban On American Families (Includes video) International Business Times - November 16, 2016 Under Donald Trump's presidency, Moscow and the United States … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: New calls for change follow two more deaths of Alberta children who received government care CBC News - November 15, 2016 In the case of the four-year-old girl, called Marie in the report (which was not her real name), Graff called for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: WA Child Protection Department in 'crisis' due to funding cuts, staff shortages, union says ABC Online - November 16, 2016 Western Australia's child protection sector is facing a "mega-crisis" as funding cuts and staff shortages place … [Read more...]