➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: The Opioid Crisis Is the Life Issue Christians Must Address (Commentary) Relevant - October 27, 2017 When public health officials tell you you're living in the darkest drug era in American history, pay attention. Because opioid dependence in America … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: The Human Trafficking Battle Continues Carmichael Times - October 27, 2017 Within the FBI Sacramento field office's 34-county area of responsibility, the FBI and its law enforcement partners conducted operations in the four metropolitan areas: Chico, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Courts and child custody judgments from foreign countries that have sex-discriminatory custody rules (Commentary) Washington Post - October 27, 2017 Coulibaly v. Stevance, decided Wednesday by the Indiana Court of Appeals, considers whether Indiana … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Buy-in From Child Welfare Agencies Needed to Combat Human Trafficking (Commentary) Chronicle of Social Change - October 27, 2017 Due to their emotional vulnerability and lack of general stability, children involved with the child welfare system are … [Read more...]

NY: Guest Essay: Child protective service workers are unsung heroes Democrat & Chronicle - October 27, 2017 Child Protective Social Workers (CPS) are the unsung heroes in our community in the fight against child abuse and neglect. They are responsible for improving the life of a child who is … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Ireland: We must change system that makes abuse victims relive horrors - Zappone (Commentary) Irish Independent - October 31, 2017 The way child abuse victims are treated by our legal system needs to be re-examined, Children's Minister Katherine Zappone … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway International: A Perilous Journey: The Plight of Unaccompanied Minors Psychology Today - October 31, 2017 Far more often than we realize, children make the perilous journey of exile on their own, unaccompanied by any protective adult. In 2015, 90,000 … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Trump's opioid plan is not enough (Commentary) Washington Post - October 28, 2017 Given the scale of the opioid epidemic, the nation should be mobilizing. More people are dying than at the peak of the HIV/AIDS scourge. In some places, overdose deaths … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Supreme Court won't take up race-based challenge to Indian Child Welfare Act (Commentary) Indianz - October 30, 2017 Another conservative attack on the Indian Child Welfare Act has been rebuffed by the nation's highest court. Without comment, the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Head Start Prevents Foster Care? To Be Decided Chronicle of Social Change - October 30, 2017 The jury is decidedly out on the academic track record of Head Start, the education-oriented pre-school program for low-income families invented in the 1960s … [Read more...]