➡ 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...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Spotlight on child abuse prompts state changes Minneapolis Star Tribune - September 23, 2017 Spurred by high-profile cases of endangered children and chronically overworked caseworkers, many states have taken steps this year to shield children from … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: No Visible Bruises: Domestic Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury True Viral News - September 23, 2017 Gael Strack, the chief executive officer of the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, is one of the domestic-violence community's most … [Read more...]