➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Exiting Without Family is a Harsh Reality for 12% of Kids Leaving Foster Care Kids Count Data Center - August 18, 2016 The research is clear. Those formerly in foster care face an uphill road to adulthood, and an absent connection to family only … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: In the Lehigh Valley, heroin's reach extends to the children of addicts (Includes video) Morning Call - August 13, 2016 Struggles like Maholland's are only becoming more commonplace, as Pennsylvania grapples with a heroin epidemic fueled by cheap … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Newborn's death raises new questions about regulation of fertility clinics New York Times - August 13, 2016 Kathleen Steele was 61, a widow and raising two young children alone when a New York fertility clinic agreed to help her have a third … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: DCF offers few details on closing controversial jail for juveniles Connecticut Mirror - August 15, 2016 The report may be titled "Plan for the Closure of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School," but the state's child welfare agency provides few … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Romania: Gov't approved norms modified and completed to enforce the Law on Adoptions ActMedia - August 12, 2016 The norms establish, among other things, that the lawfulness of the certificate of adoptive family is prolonged to two years, from one, as … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Kenya: In order to progress as a nation, we must all fight violence against women (Opinion) Daily Nation - August 14, 2016 Gender violence knows no cultural, religion, class, or geographical boundaries. It impacts women in developed as well as … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Ghana: Journalists trained on child protection Ghana News Agency - August 12, 2016 The Upper East Regional Chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has been equipped with the requisite knowledge and skills to report on child protection and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Ghana: Ghana should implement child protection laws - Specialist Ghana News Agency - August 14, 2016 Mr Emmanuel Nyarko Tetteh, a child protection specialist with the Compassion International Ghana (CIGH), has called for the implementation of all … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Born Before 1970? You're Older Than 9 Native Civil Rights Indian Country Today Media Network - August 11, 2016 The wrongs of the past have become institutionalized-they are said to be structural. And because they are systemically embedded, since … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: With Push From Adoptees, States Open Access to Birth Records Stateline - August 12, 2016 For many years, adults adopted as children who wanted to find out who their birth parents were ran up against a brick wall because they had no legal right to … [Read more...]