➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Eight-point plan outlines Monroe County CPS changes WHAM - October 04, 2017 Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo is laying out a plan to change the way Monroe County Child Protective Services works. The changes come in the wake of the Brook Stagles … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: To Save Opioid Addicts, This Experimental Court Is Ditching The Delays (Includes audio) National Public Radio - October 05, 2017 Federal, county and city court officials are looking hard at Buffalo, N.Y.'s new opioid crisis intervention court as one … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: County Hearing Reveals Child Welfare A Key Spending Driver Post-Journal - October 05, 2017 Juvenile delinquent care and placing children in foster or higher care institutions are driving increases in local spending. Budget discussions between county … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway United Kingdom: Child sex abuse victims may have to travel more than 40 miles for treatment because there's not enough staff TravelWireNews - October 01, 2017 Child sex abuse victims may have to travel from Swansea to Cardiff for treatment in future, an … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Pretesting a Human Trafficking Screening Tool in the Child Welfare and Runaway and Homeless Youth Systems Urban Matters - September 29, 2017 The tool was built based on a comprehensive review of current tools, developed with feedback from a youth … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Jenny Dang Vinopal Tapped to Lead National Foster Youth Institute Chronicle of Social Change - September 29, 2017 Jenny Dang Vinopal, a child welfare advocate with 20 years of experience working with foster youth, was named today as the new executive … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Child Maltreatment Statistics Show Slight Decline From Year to Year Youth Today - September 29, 2017 Child welfare officials found evidence of "maltreatment" in more than 683,000 cases in fiscal 2015, data newly released by nonprofit research group … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Why Family/CPS Courts Target 'Fit' Parents & Why the General Public is unaware of this National crisis. (short version) (Commentary) Huffington Post - September 30, 2017 "Rich, poor, middle-class - no child in America is safe." These words of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Gazette editorial: Help for foster kids? Focus on relationships Charleston Gazette-Mail - October 01, 2017 The way to get more foster kids into school and jobs may be to look beyond reading and math tutoring and work harder on their relationship … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Congress lets Children's Health Insurance Program expire Washington Post - October 01, 2017 Congress has allowed the Children's Health Insurance Program, which provided low-cost health insurance to 9 million children, to expire. If action is not … [Read more...]