➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: One Simple Wish Promotes Nonprofit Collaboration While Brightening Lives Chronicle of Social Change - July 19, 2016 For nonprofits, navigating niche areas of meaningful work and learning to collaborate with other agencies can prove to be an … [Read more...]
Selecting and Working With a Therapist Skilled in Adoption
Adoption has a lifelong impact on those it touches, and members of adoptive families may want professional help when concerns arise. Timely intervention by a professional skilled in adoption, attachment, and trauma issues often can prevent concerns from becoming more serious problems. This … [Read more...]
The Adoption Home Study Process
A major step in building your family through adoption is the home study. The laws of every State and the District of Columbia require all prospective adoptive parents (no matter how they intend to adopt) to participate in a home study conducted by a licensed social worker or caseworker. This process … [Read more...]
Who May Adopt, Be Adopted,or Place a Child for Adoption?
For an adoption to take place, the person available to be adopted must be placed in the home of a person or persons eligible to adopt. All States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands have laws that specify the persons who … [Read more...]
Paramus Kidsave event hosts Colombian orphans with adoption as goal
Paramus Kidsave event hosts Colombian orphans with adoption as goal PARAMUS – In Van Saun County Park, a group of kids and adults took part Sunday in what, at first glance, seemed like a perfectly normal summer day. But the event, part of the Kidsave Summer Miracles Program, was more than just a … [Read more...]
United Kingdom: Guide to the law on deprivation of liberty of children
➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Guide to the law on deprivation of liberty of children Community Care - July 14, 2016 There are likely to be a number of children and young people with disabilities who are deprived of their liberty without lawful authority in foster … [Read more...]
Australia: Privacy commissioner to investigate health department over foster care breaches
➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Privacy commissioner to investigate health department over foster care breaches The Sydney Morning Herald - July 14, 2016 Victoria's leak-plagued human services department will be investigated by the state's privacy watchdog after … [Read more...]
US: Senators Propose Grant Program to Help Dual Status Youth
➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Senators Propose Grant Program to Help Dual Status Youth Youth Today - July 14, 2016 The Childhood Outcomes Need New Efficient Community Teams (CONNECT) Act would authorize grants for collecting data on and developing policies to help so-called … [Read more...]
US: Juvenile Records Create Major Hurdles, Says Study
➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Juvenile Records Create Major Hurdles, Says Study The Huffington Post - July 14, 2016 The United States has no national standard for how juvenile records are dealt with, and no states earned a five-star rating from the Juvenile Law Center, a … [Read more...]
US: Family First Act: “Peter to Pay Paul” Objections Miss the Mark (Opinion)
➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Family First Act: "Peter to Pay Paul" Objections Miss the Mark (Opinion) The Chronicle of Social Change - July 14, 2016 As the words of opposition to the Family First Preservation Act of 2016 have flowed in - most of them from interested state, … [Read more...]
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