Adoption Fee Increase on December 23, 2016 Dear Stakeholder, On December 23, 2016, new fees will go into effect for USCIS forms as a result of a final rule published in the Federal Register on October 24, 2016. This means that anyone filing an adoption application or petition on or after … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: More than 1,700 calls to football abuse hotline in three weeks i News - December 15, 2016 More than 1,700 calls have been made to the NSPCC's football abuse helpline since it was launched just three weeks ago, it has been … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: Premier Notley denies hypocrisy over child welfare conflicts Edmonton Journal - December 14, 2016 In 2008, there was no public reporting of children who died in care - not the numbers, not the circumstances - and the children's advocate was … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Study Finds large differences in mortality rates between U.S. counties Medical News Today - December 15, 2016 In an analysis of U.S. cause-specific county-level mortality rates from 1980 through 2014, there were large between-county differences … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: HHS Now Able to Definitively Link More Foster Children to More Parental Substance Abuse Youth Today - December 15, 2016 New data in a recent Health and Human Services report shows both that the number of youth in the foster care system has risen … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Mayor de Blasio mum on child welfare agency monitor mandate (Opinion) New York Daily News - December 14, 2016 Mayor de Blasio refused to explain why he misled the public by hiding that the state had ordered him to hire a monitor for his troubled … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: New legislation misses key commitments critical to fixing Child Protection Services and settling labour unrest (Press release) Market Wired - December 13, 2016 On the brink of yet another potential strike or lockout in Children's Aid over … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Obamacare's Demise Could Be Quicker Than Republicans Intend (Includes audio) National Public Radio - December 12, 2016 An estimated 20 million people have obtained health insurance over the last three years via provisions in the Affordable Care … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: UMD Leads American Indian Child Welfare Act Project (Press release) Business North - December 13, 2016 UMD's Department of Social Work has received a significant federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Top Five Threats to Child Welfare from ACA Repeal (Opinion) CLASP - December 13, 2016 Proposals by the Congress and President-elect to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA)-including the Medicaid expansion-to turn Medicaid into a block grant, and … [Read more...]