➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Former foster care youth deliver their policy recommendations to Congress First Focus - July 20, 2016 "The 12 of us are not here on behalf of the so-called 'successful' foster youth. We are here to represent how foster youth can and ought to be … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Is a 40-Hour Workweek Enough in Government? (Opinion) Governing - July 21, 2016 When similar surveys have been conducted in the past, the results have been unsettling. Take the Colorado Child Welfare Workload Study. Over four weeks in 2014, 1,300 … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: DCF envisions a better way to work with incarcerated juveniles The Connecticut Mirror - July 21, 2016 The state's child welfare agency has envisioned what it considers a better way to operate a locked facility for youths who break the law, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: NHS offers support to girls and women as the 'cutting season' fast approaches African Voice - July 15, 2016 It is widely known within practicing communities that FGM increases in the summer months resulting in this period being … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: International: United Nations Acknowledges FGM As Child Abuse For The First Time Red Online - July 15, 2016 Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, the head of the UN population fund, has said that the practice must end immediately. "There is absolutely no reason … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Africa: Child marriages one of the most harmful practises on the African continent (Opinion) Channel Africa - July 15, 2016 Child marriages in Africa were one of the most harmful, traditional practices on the continent and the effects of this … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: The Family First Act Deserves Full Senate Vote in the Fall (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - July 15, 2016 The Senate has adjourned for the summer, and with them has departed the chance at a seamless path to passage for the Family First … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Have Efforts to Slow the Rapid Increase in Antipsychotic Use in Children on Medicaid Worked? American Journal of Managed Care - July 15, 2016 A study suggests that rising use of antipsychotic medications among Medicaid-insured children peaked in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Black in Foster Care (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - July 15, 2016 I began believing that group homes, considered markedly more restrictive than foster homes and for "harder to place" children, were designated for black children. And with … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A new kind of con artist trolls adoption websites, preying on people desperate to become parents Post and Courier - July 15, 2016 More than 100,000 infants are adopted by parents in the United States each year. An untold number of prospective … [Read more...]