➡ 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...]

➡ 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...]

➡ 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...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Family First Act Dead for the Summer; Wyden Will Push for Passage in Fall The Chronicle of Social Change - July 14, 2016 Lead proponents of the Family First Prevention Services Act will not obtain the unanimous consent they sought for the bill … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A national movement against employee non-compete contracts picks up steam (Includes audio) Public Broadcasting System - July 14, 2016 There's a growing movement to restrict, or even ban, employee noncompete agreements. Nearly 40% of all American … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: OPED: Post-Penn State paranoia harming York County children York Dispatch - July 14, 2016 In York County, between 2010 and 2014, the number of children torn from their families over the course of a year soared by 55 percent - and that was just in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Next Steps for Using Cognitive Computing to Transform Child Welfare GovLoop - July 14, 2016 Recently GovLoop's Chris Dorobek hosted an interactive chat with, Daniel Stein, Co-founder of the Stewards of Change Institute, Martin Duggan, Director of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: New DHS Commissioner named The Philadelphia Tribune - July 14, 2016 Cynthia Figueroa knows that being named Commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Human Services is a huge challenge, but it still excites … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: New Zealand: Poverty makes Kiwi children like Moko vulnerable (Opinion) Stuff - July 14, 2016 Child Matters states that New Zealand has the fifth worst child abuse record out of 31 OECD countries. On average one child is killed every five weeks and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: India: Hold Child Welfare Council polls as scheduled, says HC The Hindu - July 13, 2016 The Kerala High Court on Tuesday ordered that the elections to the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare be held as scheduled on July … [Read more...]