Data can be an incredibly powerful tool for child welfare advocates, policymakers, and program administrators in their work to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families. From identifying target population characteristics and needs, to documenting program or service outcomes, to assessing a policy’s effect, using data to inform efforts to help children and families thrive is critical. Data can play an invaluable role in helping to highlight the need for a program, service, or policy, or to communicate about how a particular population is faring. They provide objective evidence to “make the case.”
New Jersey Birth to Three Early Learning Standards
The New Jersey Council for Young Children was established in January 2010 to ensure
collaboration and coordination among early childhood programs in the State of New Jersey.
The Birth-to-Eight Early Learning and Development Standards Committee of the Council
has responsibility for the development of a coherent set of early learning and development
and program standards that address all areas of development for ages birth through eight
that will lead to positive outcomes for infants, young children and their families.
Intercountry Adoption: Where Do I Start?
Intercountry adoption continues to be an option for parents who choose to adopt. This fact sheet provides an overview of the intercountry adoption process. Depending on your State, your adoption services provider, and the country from which you adopt, the steps in this adoption process may vary and may change over time. For example, some families will first select an adoption services provider; their choice of country will then be limited to the countries with which that provider works or from which the parents are eligible to adopt. In every case you must meet the basic requirements of U.S. immigration law..
Adoption Awareness in School Assignments
Several common school assignments can make foster and adoptive children feel left out, uncomfortable,
sad, and hurt. Projects like the ‘Family Tree’, ‘Bring-a-Baby Picture’ and ‘Trace Your Genetic Traits’ can
be particularly difficult for students adopted at older ages; however, children adopted as infants and
those living in foster care may also lack the information for some family-based assignments.
Termination of Parental Rights – A Handbook for Parents
Written by Legal Services of New Jersey .
The Rights of Unmarried Fathers
In recent decades, the significant percentage of births to unmarried parents1 has led to an increased focus on the fathers of these children. Referred to as alleged, presumed, reputed, or putative fathers, many of them seek recognition of their legal rights and expanded roles in raising their children.
Constitutional Rights
Historically, unmarried fathers have had fewer rights with regard to their children than either unwed mothers or married parents. Over the past several decades, unmarried fathers have challenged the termination of their parental rights under the Fourteenth Amendment in cases in which birth mothers relinquished their children for adoption. In a series of cases involving unmarried fathers, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutional protection of such a father’s parental rights when he has established a substantial relationship with his child. The court found that the existence of a biological link between a child and an unmarried father gives the father the opportunity to establish a substantial relationship, which it defined as the father’s commitment to the responsibilities of parenthood, as demonstrated by being involved or attempting to be involved in the child’s upbringing..
Kinship Legal Guardianship – A Permanency Option in DCP&P Cases
The state Division of Child Protection and Permanency (CP&P), formerly known as the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), has placed a child in your home. You may be related to the child, a close friend of the family or perhaps the child has been in your home for a long time. Your CP&P case manager has explained that it is unlikely the child will return to their parents. CP&P is asking you to make a permanent commitment to raise this child. You have lots of questions. What are your options? What financial supports will be available to you?
It is important for you to understand the different permanency options available to you and the child in your home. You should learn about all the options, the financial supports available with each, and how those supports may affect other benefits you receive before making your final decision. This guide gives you an overview of one permanency option – kinship legal guardianship (KLG) – as a first step toward making this all-important decision.
Please Note: This booklet is not intended to offer legal advice or legal guidance. You should consult the professionals involved in your child’s case, including the CP&P case manager, the child’s attorney (law guardian) and the attorney for CP&P (the Deputy Attorney General [DAG]). For more information or if you have questions not answered in this guide, contact Mary E. Coogan, Esq., vice president at Advocates for Children of New Jersey and director of the KidLaw Resource Center, at mcoogan@acnj.org.
The KidLaw Resource Center offers information, assistance and trainings about the rights of children. The Center provides free fact sheets, manuals and other resources. Staff is available to provide presentations and trainings on children’s legal rights. Visit www.acnj.org for more information.
Race for Results – Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children
From the time our children are born, we imagine a bright future for them: a solid foundation of education and development in their early years, excellent health care, high school graduation, a good college education and a career path that launches them toward lifelong achievement and economic self-sufficiency. As parents, nothing will stop us from doing everything within our power to make that happen.
And as Americans, our concern extends beyond our own doorsteps. We want success for children in rural towns and urban communities across the nation because we understand that providing opportunity to all children, regardless of their race or ethnicity, is essential to America’s future prosperity.
The Littlest Victims: Protecting Babies from Abuse and Neglect
A startling statistic: Eighty percent of New Jersey children who died from abuse and neglect over a
5-year period were 3 years of age or younger. Nearly half of these babies and toddlers were known to the state’s child
protection system.
These facts tragically spotlight a tragic truth: Infants and toddlers are more likely to fall victim to abuse and neglect — and more
likely to die from that maltreatment. That’s because very young children cannot take care of themselves, defend themselves or tell on their abusers. They are unable to
recognize danger and to understand what is happening to them.
STEP UP, TAKE ACTION – When Does a Child Need Help?
A proactive guide for recognizing the warning signs and
identifying children who may turn to violence.
“STEP UP, TAKE ACTION” – When Does a Child Need Help?
Dear Parents and Teachers of Elementary School Children,
The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, made clear the urgent need to protect our children and to reduce violence
in our communities. Many “shooters,” who are described after the tragedies they cause, are isolated individuals who have had emotional problems for
years. But, they never received the attention and help they needed early enough to prevent them from putting themselves or others in danger.
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