➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Myanmar: More than half the refugees fleeing Myanmar are children Quartz - September 18, 2017 The number of people who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh over the last three weeks has now crossed 400,000, according to the United Nations. If that's not bad … [Read more...]

➡ 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...]