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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: After foster care, what next? Montreal organization looks to fill gap in system CBC News - November 13, 2016 Keller's Montreal-based non-profit group, C.A.R.E Jeunesse, estimates that about 1,200 youth age out foster care in Quebec each year. … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: Ontario needs more oversight of children's aid societies: Editorial The Star (Ontario) - November 14, 2016 It's hard to believe anyone involved in overseeing the care of vulnerable kids in foster care or group homes would dream of wasting even … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Four Corners exposes critical need for Government child protection services Medianet - November 14, 2016 The ABC's Four Corners 'Broken Homes' investigation has tragically reinforced what the Public Service Association (PSA) has been red … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Caring on the brink: Australia's struggling foster care system (Includes video) SBS (Australia) - November 14, 2016 With increasing amounts of kids going into care in Australia there has never been more of a need for foster carers, but … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: How 'vicarious trauma' is passed down from parent to child in military families Health Medicine Network - November 11, 2016 When retired soldier Jacqueline Buckley sees her four-year-old grandson get angry, she can't help but think of her own … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Adoption system needs more transparency: Sharon Broussard (Opinion) Cleveland Plain Dealer - November 11, 2016 Sometimes birth mothers aren't told all of their options before they give up their parental rights, she told a rapt but small audience … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Commentary: Many foster-care youth unprepared for independent living Philly.com - November 14, 2016 Philadelphia is working to end youth homelessness in the next 100 days, as part of its four-pronged approach to the city's Street Homelessness … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Serbia and Kyrgyzstan: Child protection treaties come into force Marilyn Stowe LLP - November 14, 2016 This month, the 1996 Child Protection Convention became binding in Serbia. Meanwhile, the rules of the 1993 Intercountry Adoption Convention were … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Kenya: Residents advised to follow legal adoption process Kenya News Agency - November 14, 2016 Members of the public intending to adopt children from vulnerable backgrounds must strictly follow the prescribed legal process, a children officer has … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Now to the issue of alleged abuse and neglect in residential care homes for foster kids (Video) MSN News - November 15, 2016 Problems in the sector were revealed on last night's Four Corners program. Here's part of that … [Read more...]