➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: For the sake of human trafficking victims, don't rescind Medicaid expansion: Anne Victory (Opinion) Plain Dealer - July 27, 2017 As we saw with Amy, the need for services doesn't end once a victim is removed from a trafficking situation. People like … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Women's "Equality": The Criminalization of Women's Trauma Change-Links Progressive - July 28, 2017 Studies show that at least 85% of people with serious psychiatric diagnoses are survivors of severe trauma. There are similar rates of prior trauma for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Trump's travel ban is leaving these orphans stuck in refugee camps Washington Post - July 28, 2017 The tranquil home of James Isaacs, an Episcopal priest, and wife Maggie Brewinski Isaacs, a pediatrician, sits on a hill above a creek on 5½ wooded … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: States Explore Trauma Screening in the Child Welfare System Chronicle of Social Change - July 28, 2017 As trauma-informed initiatives have multiplied in recent years, more child welfare agencies are now grappling with how to properly screen for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: For principals, student sexting a speeding 'freight train,' full of peril Education Week - July 28, 2017 And for assistant principal Deirdra Chandler, the harsh realization that responding to youth "sexting" is now an inescapable part of the job, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: COPPA and Schools: The (Other) Federal Student Privacy Law, Explained Education Week - July 28, 2017 The Federal Trade Commission, which enforces COPPA, has said that schools can, in many situations, stand in for parents and let companies collect … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts #7: A Federal Foster Care Bill of Rights Chronicle of Social Change - July 28, 2017 Love proposes ushering in a federal bill of rights for youth who are placed into foster care. She proposes the following two-step … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Supreme Court rulings reshape penalties for young offenders Associated Press - July 30, 2017 Among the U.S. Supreme Court's many rulings on juveniles and crime, several big cases over the last dozen years have narrowed the instances in which those … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: When Should a Child Be Taken from His Parents? New Yorker - August 07, 2017 You will hear a knock on the door, often late at night. You don't have to open it, but if you don't the caseworker outside may come back with the police. The caseworker will … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Frazzled child welfare workers struggle as abuse reports soar Morning Call - July 28, 2017 There is little doubt many caseworkers could relate to the experience - if not before the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal then afterward, when new … [Read more...]