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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: The human cost of trafficking (Opinion) Dallas Morning News - December 27, 2016 In a study published this week in the American Journal of Public Health, we and our colleagues compared the level and type of childhood adversity experienced by boys … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: The CPS silver lining: More former foster kids are going to college for free Dallas Morning News - December 27, 2016 Former foster children who are adopted out of the system are held to higher academic standards than those who aged out of state … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Reporter's Notebook: Covering One Family Through Homelessness, Pregnancy and Addiction (Audio) Texas Standard - December 27, 2016 The Texas Standard has been following Courtney Meeks and William Welch since January. Joy Diaz has reported on their … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Integrating Juvenile Support & Response Services (Opinion) Officer.com - December 27, 2016 This young lady is lucky to live in an area where dedicated professionals work together to meet all the gray areas in mental health, law enforcement … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Home-visit program in child maltreatment cases strengthens parent-child interaction (Press release) (Podcast Transcript) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - December 27, 2016 NIH-funded study of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Benefits and Challenges of the Agile Approach to Modernizing HHS Technology (Opinion) Government Technology - December 27, 2016 As states seek to evolve their modernization projects from a traditional, monolithic approach to a more flexible one, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: How Paid Parental Leave Changed In 2016 Fast Company - December 28, 2016 As the year draws to a close, some real progress has been made, but 2016 wasn't exactly a watershed year for paid parental leave. Here's a look at what's changed in the past … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Deadlines Loom for Schools To Comply With Key Provisions of Every Student Succeeds Act Fox Rothschild LLP Alerts - December 28, 2016 Congress imposed a handful of new responsibilities on school administrators when it passed the Every Student … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Child abuse in the military: Failing those most in need Los Angeles Times - December 29, 2016 The Pentagon has struggled to deal with a little-noticed cascade of child abuse and neglect cases in military families in the years since America went … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Abused, neglected children often lack safety net of mandatory reporters PennLive - December 28, 2016 Cathleen Palm, founder of The Center for Children's Justice, points out that in spite of the systems in place, there is an added level of … [Read more...]