➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Latest Objection to Family First Act: You're Kidding, Right? (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - September 16, 2016 The argument goes like this: Under current law, under a collection of highly unlikely circumstances, a small subset of kinship … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: 10 high schools receive $10M for rethinking traditional model Education Drive - September 16, 2016 The XQ Institute awarded $100 million to 10 schools around the country experimenting with nontraditional teaching and learning techniques as part … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Special Issue of APSAC Advisor Tackles Controversial Differential Response Program Chronicle of Social Change - September 16, 2016 Three years after a group of researchers sought to evaluate the research base of differential response programs, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Credit Czar Howe Notifies CenturyLink, Law Enforcement of Child Identity Fraud and Victimization (Press release) Business Wire - September 18, 2016 "Once again - and among the hundreds and hundreds of child crimes I've exposed - I'm engaged with … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Call for paid family leave has reached the state and national levels Southeast Missourian - September 19, 2016 The call for paid family leave has grown louder in recent months, thanks to the upcoming presidential election. While the federal … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Local Agencies See Rise in Child Abuse Reports (Incldes video) WBRE/WYOU - September 16, 2016 "In just one year we had a 14 percent increase in the number of calls that came in," said Dallas. The increase in reports impacted efficiency. In some … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: CHOP's international adoption team providing healthier, brighter futures (Includes video) WXTF - September 16, 2016 A local couple is expanding their already large family by adopting children from overseas, and a program at CHOP is helping them … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Debtors' Prison for Kids: When Families Can't Afford to Free Jailed Youths (Includes audio) Public News Service - September 19, 2016 Jessica Feierman, associate director at the Juvenile Law Center, called it a punishment for being poor. "We're … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Met tries to bar FGM practitioner from Britain Morning Star - September 20, 2016 SCOTLAND Yard is urging the government to intervene to prevent a "high-profile" practitioner of female genital mutilation from entering Britain. A High … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Foster care workers vote to form first ever trade union BBC News - September 20, 2016 The Department for Education said it was launching a fundamental review of fostering across the country. Foster carers can be employed by private … [Read more...]