➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: Chief coroner releases recommendations of Child Death Review Committee (News Release) New Brunswick - July 08, 2016 The committee reviews the deaths of children under the age of 19, including those who were in the legal care of the minister … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Social Work Professor's Research Shows Implicit Bias by Institutions Newswise - July 08, 2016 Susan McCarter has spent the last 20 years researching and talking about disproportionate minority contacts (DMC), or the over-representation of … [Read more...]

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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Data Analytics Helps Agencies Transform Government GovLoop - July 08, 2016 Predictive data analytics uses all data available to identify most at-risk children, those least likely to be re-unified and the best services for each … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: Adoptees can access records come January North Jersey News - July 08, 2016 The records of some 300,000 adopted persons - currently under seal - are to become available in January, as the second phase of the state's new adoption law is … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: The Senate Must Act Now to Put Families First (Opinion) Huffington Post - July 07, 2016 If passed, it will be good news for the more than 2.5 million children currently being raised in grandfamilies. For the first time, this Act will allow … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Child welfare offices to get far less funding than budget suggests York Dispatch - July 07, 2016 State funding earmarked for county-operated child protection agencies in Pennsylvania is far less than what is laid out in the state budget awaiting … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: DE: Thousands learn to prevent child abuse (Includes video) Delaware Online - July 07, 2016 The foundation to combat child sexual abuse started by former Attorney General Beau Biden has trained more than 20,000 Delawareans in identification and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Family day to raise FGM awareness ahead of summer danger period GetWestLondon - July 12, 2016 Hounslow Council has teamed up with anti-FGM charity FORWARD to organize the Keeping Our Girls Safe day on Saturday, July … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Egypt: MP's endorsement of FGM stirs controversy but unlikely to have effect Ahram - July 12, 2016 Egyptian MP and doctor Ahmed El-Tahawy says female genital mutilation (FGM), from a medical and religious stand, is a necessity as long as it is … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Our Kids Deserve Better Than Rushed Family First Bill (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - July 12, 2016 So you can imagine the challenge of our nation's foster care system, which is tasked with getting it right for more than 415,000 abused and … [Read more...]