➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: How to protect your child's credit Hawaii News Now - September 22, 2017 Identity theft is terrible when it happens to anyone. The consequences range from hassle to financial disaster. But what if someone stole your identity, and you had no idea, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: States take action to combat child abuse Herald Dispatch - September 25, 2017 Spurred by high-profile cases of endangered children and chronically overworked caseworkers, many states have taken steps this year to shield children from abuse and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Judge in Graham Spanier criminal case sets out legal underpinnings for upholding conviction Penn Live - September 22, 2017 Spanier, 68, was convicted by a jury in March of one count of child endangerment for what prosecutors have called his failure … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Blair County Children Youth and Families works to improve system (Includes video) WJAC - September 22, 2017 Blair County's Child Advocacy Center, or Center for Child Justice, opened Friday in Altoona. The center is one of multiple changes for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Kinship care, how it works and why it should be expanded (Opinion) New York Nonprofit Media - September 22, 2017 Recent legislation to expand the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program, or KinGAP, introduced by state Sen. Tony Avella and Assemblyman … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Administration of Children's Services staffers now being sent to NYPD investigator course New York Daily News - September 24, 2017 Call it Law & Order: ACS. Staffers at the city's Administration of Children's Services are being sent to the NYPD's … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Judges to child-beating mom: That's abuse Courier-Post - September 22, 2017 A Burlington County mother who beat her 6-year-old son with a phone-charging cord and made the boy and his brother walk alone to school along a busy road has lost a challenge … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Sudan: Girls, Child Marriage, and Education in Red Sea State, Sudan: Perspectives on Girls' Freedom to Choose Relief Web - September 26, 2017 Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway International: Educate to Lead: Leaving No Girl or Woman Behind Impakter - September 26, 2017 Along with other NGOs and civil society organizations, Soroptimist International (SI) participated in the consultative processes that led to the creation of the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway India: Should India become a signatory to the Hague Convention on international child abduction? Economic Times (India) - September 24, 2017 Bring our Kids Home (BOKH) is a non-governmental organisation in the US formed in 2015 by parents, including many … [Read more...]