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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Adoption agency's demise sheds light on troubled industry MSN News US - February 28, 2017 Among the larger private adoption agencies, California-based IAC, which had offices in eights states, said in its Feb. 3 bankruptcy filing that 1,886 … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Clinic for Young Children Who Experience Trauma Opens in Brownsville DNA Info - February 23, 2017 A clinic focusing on children younger than 5 who have suffered emotional trauma has opened in Brownsville. The Jewish Board of Family and Children's … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Years After Children Taken Away, Couple Fighting DCF Over "Predictive Neglect" (Includes video) Hartford Courant - February 28, 2017 The Department of Children and Families went to the hospital and removed their two sons at birth under the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: India: In Delhi jeans factory, children hit with hammer and made to work for 22 hours Hindustan Times - March 02, 2017 Shyam (10) is unable to walk properly after four years of sitting at just one place 22 hours a day. Lucky (10), could not open his … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Action News Investigates: Judge allows mother to visit child she's accused of abusing WTAE - March 01, 2017 At 14 months old, Gabriella Berry was in a Pittsburgh hospital with a fractured skull, a stroke and a torn carotid artery. Her father and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Kenney offers painless Philly spending plan Newsworks - March 02, 2017 Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney will present his annual budget address to City Council Thursday, offering a spending plan with no tax increases and modest increases in targeted … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Mother of Brook Stagles files notice of claim to sue Monroe Co. (Includes video) WHAM - February 28, 2017 The mother of a Greece toddler who investigators say died from severe child abuse has filed a notice of claim to sue Monroe … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: Identity, belonging, purpose, key to kids well-being, says Sixties Scoop survivor CBC News - February 22, 2017 The woman who led thousands of Indigenous adoptees to a hard-won victory in the Sixties Scoop lawsuit says she could not have done … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Catholic leader says not 'remotely enough' supervision to prevent child sexual abuse Guardian - February 23, 2017 "I can't pretend we have remotely sufficient supervision for me to be assured that they are not misbehaving again," he told … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Policy calls for public health approach to opioid misuse by pregnant women (Press release) American Pharmacists Association - February 17, 2017 New guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advocates tackling opioid misuse in … [Read more...]