➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Canada: OPP's revamped sex assault investigation strategy includes new training, oversight from advocacy groups CBC News - September 15, 2017 The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has unveiled a revamped strategy to handle sexual assault reports after a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Australia: Town gripped by paedophile epidemic with '90% of school-age children sexually abused' Independent - September 18, 2017 Thirty-six men have been charged with more than 300 offences against 184 children after an investigation uncovered a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Care and connections: Bridging relational gaps for foster youths Brookings Institution - September 14, 2017 In the United States, more than 20,000 youths "age out" of foster care each year. But leaving foster care presents its own challenges. Only 55 … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: After a Series of Foster Care Hackathons, Here's What Happened Next Chronicle of Social Change - September 15, 2017 Hackathons - like the foster youth policy and technology hackathons - have spurred a new wave of civic engagement, and these … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: State's child welfare 'system is broken': 5 things to know today Pittsburgh Tribune Review - September 15, 2017 1). PENNSYLVANIA'S FOSTER CARE 'SYSTEM IS BROKEN.' The bleak assessment by Auditor-General Eugene DePasquale is based on a yearlong review … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Report: Pennsylvania Child Abuse Workers Swamped, Underpaid Associated Press - September 15, 2017 The county caseworkers who investigate child abuse in Pennsylvania are underpaid, inadequately trained, plagued by high turnover and face dangerous … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway DE: State Works to Prevent, Recognize and Treat Substance Exposure in Infants (Press release) State of Delaware - September 14, 2017 Delaware and the nation are struggling with an addiction epidemic, a fact that is well known. Less well known is that the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Auditor general: Child protection 'broken' in Pa. Daily Item - September 14, 2017 Auditor General Eugene DePasquale issued a damning report Thursday that concluded the state's child protective services system is "broken." "Children are being horribly … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Ask the experts: What options exist for LGBT family-building? Philadelphia Gay News - September 14, 2017 According to the Williams Institute, about 27 percent of Pennsylvania's LGBT residents are raising children. From fostering to fertility … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway CT: Rally Bolsters CCSU Students Whose Parents Face Deportation (Includes video) Hartford Courant - September 15, 2017 Central Connecticut State University students rallied Thursday in support of two of their classmates whose parents have been ordered to … [Read more...]