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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Needed: A New Vision of Foster Care (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - December 21, 2016 The number of children in foster care has increased for the third straight year. Foster parent shortages have been reported in at least 24 states, with … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A Better Way to Build Modern Safety-Net Systems (Opinion) Governing - December 22, 2016 Driven largely by federal policy direction and financial incentives, the past several years have seen a wave of efforts to modernize state health and human … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: 4 Infrastructure Requirements for Any Big Data Initiative FedTech - December 22, 2016 Agencies must select Big Data analytics products based not only on what functions the software can complete, but also on factors such as data security and ease … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: 10 New Year Resolutions For Foster Care (Opinion) Huffington Post - December 22, 2016 With more children in foster care now than in years past, the foster care system in the United States is in need of attention, and in some ways, in need of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Comptroller Scott Stringer issues scathing ACS report; City fires back WABC - December 22, 2016 Following the tragic death of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins, a new report released Thursday by the New York City Comptroller's office found the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Japan: Rising Numbers of Child Abuse Cases: Increasing Awareness to Social Ills Modern Tokyo Times - December 26, 2016 Statistics are clearly open to many interpretations but certain underlying factors, both positive and negative, are behind the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Greece: Sebastopol's Schoolbox Project carves out safe space for child refugees Press Democrat - December 24, 2016 The Elliniko refugee camp outside of Athens is a complex of abandoned 2004 Olympic Games venues and the former Ellinikon International … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Federal government expands criminal database access for Indian tribes Associated Press - December 22, 2016 Tulalip Chairman Melvin Sheldon Jr. said TAP will empower tribal law enforcement agencies nationwide by giving them the tools they have … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: We Won't Find a "New Vision" for Foster Care by Looking in the Rear View Mirror (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - December 23, 2016 Nearly seven years ago, when the northeast was hit with a snowstorm quickly dubbed "snowpocalypse" and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Why have international adoptions become so agonizing? New York Post - December 24, 2016 "Just thinking about the paperwork makes my head spin . . . the piles of documents, the medical clearance, the reference letters and everything had to be … [Read more...]