➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Survivors, advocates launch U.S.-based anti-trafficking effort Thomson Reuters Foundation - October 18, 2016 It aims to build awareness of social, economic and other factors such as family violence, underfunded schools and poorly run foster care … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Supportive Housing Can Help Keep Families Together Huffington Post - October 18, 2016 Separating children from their families and placing them in foster care can have devastating, long-term consequences. This is sometimes preventable, especially … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: FBI rescues 82 children, arrests more than 200 in sex trafficking sting United Press International (UPI) - October 18, 2016 The FBI rescued nearly 100 exploited children and arrested more than 200 adults in what has become an annual international … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Almost a Half Million Children Are in the Foster Care System Good Housekeeping - October 18, 2016 Over 400,000 children are in the foster care system. The initial goal is to reunite them with birth families or relatives if appropriate, but that's … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Surviving Life In Foster Care: Why Children In Foster Care Are Vulnerable To Depression, Learning Disabilities, Obesity & Asthma Parent Herald - October 19, 2016 A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics found that children who have … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: How Immigrants Prepare for the Possibility of Deportation Vice - October 19, 2016 On the low end, an estimated 740,000 parents with US-citizen children were deported between 2003 and 2013, according to a joint report from the Migration Policy … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: McGarrigle bill allowing disability license plates for parents of disabled adults signed into law Delaware County News Network - October 17, 2016 Legislation sponsored by State Senator Tom McGarrigle (R-26) allowing parents or guardians with … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Covenant House Pennsylvania Launches "Am I Cut Out?" Campaign To Raise Awareness Of Homeless Youth (Press release) PRNewswire - October 18, 2016 Covenant House Pennsylvania, the region's largest shelter exclusively serving homeless youth, is … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: For New York City's Homeless Children, Getting to School Is the Hard Part The New York Times - October 10, 2016 Family workers carrying caseloads of 256 children at a time. A girl who had transferred to four different schools, one of them twice, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: Jersey City woman assaults Child Protection and Permanency employee: cops NJ.com - October 18, 2016 A Jersey City woman has been accused of assaulting an employee of the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency in Bayonne, police said. … [Read more...]