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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Study Finds large differences in mortality rates between U.S. counties Medical News Today - December 15, 2016 In an analysis of U.S. cause-specific county-level mortality rates from 1980 through 2014, there were large between-county differences … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: HHS Now Able to Definitively Link More Foster Children to More Parental Substance Abuse Youth Today - December 15, 2016 New data in a recent Health and Human Services report shows both that the number of youth in the foster care system has risen … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Mayor de Blasio mum on child welfare agency monitor mandate (Opinion) New York Daily News - December 14, 2016 Mayor de Blasio refused to explain why he misled the public by hiding that the state had ordered him to hire a monitor for his troubled … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: New legislation misses key commitments critical to fixing Child Protection Services and settling labour unrest (Press release) Market Wired - December 13, 2016 On the brink of yet another potential strike or lockout in Children's Aid over … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Obamacare's Demise Could Be Quicker Than Republicans Intend (Includes audio) National Public Radio - December 12, 2016 An estimated 20 million people have obtained health insurance over the last three years via provisions in the Affordable Care … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: UMD Leads American Indian Child Welfare Act Project (Press release) Business North - December 13, 2016 UMD's Department of Social Work has received a significant federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Top Five Threats to Child Welfare from ACA Repeal (Opinion) CLASP - December 13, 2016 Proposals by the Congress and President-elect to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA)-including the Medicaid expansion-to turn Medicaid into a block grant, and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: The New Strategy for Raising Money for Kids: Just Ask Voters Governing - December 13, 2016 Amid Donald Trump's largely unexpected victory on Election Day, it was easy to miss an emerging trend in local elections: In about a dozen communities … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: The Alarming Rise Of Children In Foster Care Huffington Post - December 13, 2016 For many years, there had been a decrease in the number of children being placed into the foster care system in the United States of America. Yet, for the past three … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Study Raises Concern of Significant Under-Reporting of Child Abuse Within U.S. Army (Press release) PR Newswire - December 13, 2016 Only 20 percent of medically diagnosed child abuse and neglect cases in U.S. Army dependent children between 2004 … [Read more...]