➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Meet Tim Kaine's wife, a longtime child welfare advocate and Virginia's secretary of education Washington Post - July 22, 2016 As a schoolgirl in 1970, she was on the front lines of the fight to desegregate Virginia's public schools. Holton is … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Adoption In America: The Good, The Bad, And A Path To Reform (Opinion) Huffington Post - July 22, 2016 Too often, adoptions are fraught with challenges that negatively impact adopted persons, first/birth families, foster/adoptive families and the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Putting Childhood Poverty on Candidates' Radar (Includes audio) Public News Service - July 25, 2016 Bruce Lesley, president of the children's advocacy group First Focus, says more than one in five children in the U.S. lives in a family that falls … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: In DNC speech, Philly man will seek more help for social workers and kids in their care News Works - July 25, 2016 A Philadelphia native with a compelling story will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night. Thaddeus … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: 8 Steps to Take to Protect Children From Sexual Abuse at the Hands of Rabbis (Opinion) The Algemeiner - July 25, 2016 Many Orthodox rabbis and institutions are affiliated with one or more major Orthodox umbrella groups. These groups include the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: APNewsBreak: NYC review of foster homes finds no abuse cases Associated Press - July 22, 2016 The city's Administration for Children's Services reviewed conditions at 370 homes operated by SCO Family of Services after one of the organization's … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: International: WHO Issues First Guidelines On Treating Female Genital Mutilation Victims NDTV - July 27, 2016 The World Health Organization released its first-ever guidelines on how medical professionals should treat victims of female genital … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Europe: Children in crisis: Unaccompanied migrant children in the EU Reliefweb - July 26, 2016 It has become increasingly clear that children, many of them unaccompanied by a parent, relative or guardian, are in the forefront of the crisis. In 2015 … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts, #2: Incentivize Psychotropic Accountability Chronicle of Social Change - July 26, 2016 Price calls for special federal matching funds for any child welfare agency that employs a child psychiatrist as its … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts, #3: Fighting Bias, Stereotypes of Foster Youth Chronicle of Social Change - July 27, 2016 Wichman calls for Congress to require states to ensure that every foster youth has an advocate - not their caseworker … [Read more...]