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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: The Homeless Student Population Is Exploding. Will New Focus on Performance Save Them? The Seventy Four - October 16, 2016 Darius has spent nearly his entire high school career living in a homeless shelter, just one young man among more than a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: How Big Data can help save endangered kids (Opinion) New York Post - October 16, 2016 According to Richard Gelles, dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, "Even the state-of-the-art assessment tools … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Don't let a bad case damage an improving system (Opinion) Journal Inquirer - October 14, 2016 Child welfare agencies have to address both "systems issues" - such as having enough foster homes and effective services to help children and families - … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Ghana: High Court to give clearance before child adoption - Minister CITI - October 16, 2016 Persons seeking to adopt children in Ghana will soon be required resort to the High Courts for clearance. This is because the Children's Amendment Bill … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: China: Sino-Finnish Centre for Child Protection Research to open in Shanghai {Press release) University of Eastern Finland - October 18, 2016 Fudan University and the University of Eastern Finland will open a joint Sino-Finnish Centre for Child … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Sen. Hatch seeking more resources to help relatives raising kin's children Deseret News - October 17, 2016 They still call her "Grammy," but Cindi Rogers has a bigger role than that in the lives of three of her grandchildren. As she puts it, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Foster Youth Need Academic Support to Succeed (Opinion) Youth Today - October 17, 2016 For years, the child welfare system in America has focused on the most urgent needs of the children it served, making sure they're safe, with enough food to … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Family First's Opponents Will Have Much to Answer For (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - October 17, 2016 Let's take a look at the results so far in the recent efforts in Congress to pass the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFA) … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: How institutions and society fail Pittsburgh's Black girls Pittsburgh Courier - October 17, 2016 In Allegheny County, Black teenage girls are disproportionately channeled to the child welfare system, they're more likely to be removed from their … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Former Penn State counsel said he advised reporting '01 shower incident, but did not see it as a legal duty Penn Live - October 17, 2016 A former attorney for Penn State testified Monday that during a preliminary briefing on the 2001 shower room … [Read more...]