➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Syria: Desperate Families Flee into War-torn Syria to Escape Mosul Fighting (Press release) Save the Children - October 19, 2016 About 5,000 people, mostly women and children, have arrived at the Al Hol Camp from the Mosul area in the last 10 days, and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Lebanon: The Precarious State of Syrian Refugee Women, Children in Lebanon Rand - October 13, 2016 More than 13 million Syrians (PDF) in Syria and surrounding countries have been displaced by the conflict since March 2011, creating what some have … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Italy: UNICEF: Record Numbers of Unaccompanied Children Arrive in Italy Arab Today - October 19, 2016 More and more migrant children have been crossing the sea to Italy without their families, bringing the number of unaccompanied minors to a record … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: India: Anti-trafficking Bill to be introduced in Parliament soon: Maneka Gandhi The Morung Express - October 17, 2016 Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said the government will soon bring an anti-trafficking legislation in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Europe: Former Archbishop: 'The clock is ticking' for minors in Calais (Opinion) Middle East Monitor - October 17, 2016 "The clock is ticking," according to former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Rowan Williams as the demolition of the Calais "Jungle" … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: October is Child Abuse Prevention Month Trent Hills Independent - October 19, 2016 The campaign is about "making it more comfortable for people to call" the children's aid society because "there's a bit of a stigma sometimes" attached to … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: The New Focus on Children's Mental Health Atlantic Monthly - October 17, 2016 "It's during childhood and adolescence where we have a large concentration of mental-health issues, and school is where many kids are spending a large portion of their … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: In New #WithinReach Video, Comedy Stars Team Up to Get the Word Out About High-Quality, Affordable Child Care (Press release) Center for American Progress - October 18, 2016 Comedy stars are teaming up to get the word out about high-quality, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: FBI sting shows child sex trafficking still thriving in United States (Includes video) The Christian Science Monitor - October 18, 2016 Kids often enter the criminal justice system for crimes such as "running away, truancy, drugs, alcohol, petty … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Former Penn State counsel Cynthia Baldwin defends PSU's actions in McQueary case PennLive - October 18, 2016 Baldwin, in an ironic twist, wound up being a staunch defender Tuesday of the university's decision to place McQueary on paid, … [Read more...]