➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: China: Helping Adopted Children Seek Closure Sixth Tone - October 25, 2016 The experience of adoption leaves many children with questions about their roots, but Chinese and American parents have different … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Op-ed: The school-to-prison pipeline is real, and we need to close it off Salt Lake Tribune - October 22, 2016 The School-to-Prison Pipeline is a national trend where children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Studying the effects of incarceration on women and their families Phys.org - October 24, 2016 The number of women in prison has increased dramatically in the last several decades, yet there is little research into women's experiences in prison … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: New Guidelines To Prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Released (Audio) National Public Radio - October 24, 2016 The American Academy of Pediatrics has new advice out for parents to protect babies from sudden infant death syndrome. SIDS claims … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Foster Youth Bring Their Priorities to Capitol Hill (Includes video) Youth Today - October 24, 2016 Foster youth sometimes get the chance to respond to lawmakers' child welfare agendas. They may be invited to testify at a hearing or to stand … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Female Genital Mutilation Haunts Somalis in US (Includes video) Voice of America - October 24, 2016 Although the procedure is illegal in the United States, many Somali natives now residing in the U.S. underwent FGM as young girls and still live … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Advocates see a deck stacked against parents in DCF cases The Day - October 22, 2016 Lawyers and others who deal with child welfare cases say that once the Department of Children and Families takes a child from a home and wins temporary custody, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Hundreds of students take a stand over 387 unaccompanied children at Calais 'Jungle' camp Gazette-Standard - October 24, 2016 Around 387 students at the Sixth Form College in Colchester gathered on the college grounds as part of a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Yes, There IS a Problem with the "Culture Change" in Connecticut: It Hasn't Gone Far Enough Chronicle of Social Change - October 25, 2016 As NCCPR discusses in detail in this report, the current governor, Dannel Malloy, and the Commissioner of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Some big lessons from Troubled Families BBC News - October 18, 2016 This is despite the work of researchers from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, who wrote: "Across a wide range of outcomes, covering the key … [Read more...]