➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Recently Installed New York Child Welfare Leader Looks to Reform the System Chronicle of Social Change - July 10, 2017 This March, former Obama administration official David Hansell took the helm of New York City's Administration for Children's … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: New Tutoring Program Aims to Help Students in Foster Care Stay in School (Includes video) NY1 - July 10, 2017 "The transition to foster care really made it hard for me to juggle my school work and the responsibilities of being a foster kid," Goswami … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway United Kingdom: Fathers' experiences of child protection process examined Science Daily - July 10, 2017 New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) challenges assumptions that men in child protection cases do not stay involved in children's … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Canada: Indigenous children are dramatically overrepresented in Canada's child welfare system Vice - July 11, 2017 At the root of it all, many say, are longstanding systemic issues that continue to go ignored - from intergenerational trauma caused by … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Top Five Threats to Child Welfare from the Senate Health Care Repeal Proposal (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - July 11, 2017 The Senate's proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to sharply cut Medicaid payments to states through … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: How severe, ongoing stress can affect a child's brain Associated Press - July 12, 2017 Mounting research on potential biological dangers of toxic stress is prompting a new public health approach to identifying and treating the effects of poverty, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway South Korea: South Korean adoptees call for end to international adoption Korea Times - July 13, 2017 Adoptee-led organisations called on the Korean government to immediately end the "industrialised international adoption" system. The joint declaration, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: For Opioids' Youngest Victims, Is Help Too Little, Too Late? Governing - July 01, 2017 Drug abuse is overwhelming the child welfare system at unprecedented rates. Solutions are slowly emerging. Opioids pose special challenges for child welfare … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Theresa (Teri) Martha Covington, M.P.H., Appointed Director of "Within Our Reach," an office established at the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities (Press release) Alliance for Strong Families and Communities - July 12, 2017 Within Our … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Tax consequences of domestic and foreign child adoptions (Opinion) Accounting Today - July 12, 2017 We favor Americans adopting American children from foster care when feasible, but current U.S. tax law benefits domestic and foreign adoptions. The … [Read more...]