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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: McGarrigle bill allowing disability license plates for parents of disabled adults signed into law Delaware County News Network - October 17, 2016 Legislation sponsored by State Senator Tom McGarrigle (R-26) allowing parents or guardians with … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Covenant House Pennsylvania Launches "Am I Cut Out?" Campaign To Raise Awareness Of Homeless Youth (Press release) PRNewswire - October 18, 2016 Covenant House Pennsylvania, the region's largest shelter exclusively serving homeless youth, is … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: For New York City's Homeless Children, Getting to School Is the Hard Part The New York Times - October 10, 2016 Family workers carrying caseloads of 256 children at a time. A girl who had transferred to four different schools, one of them twice, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: Jersey City woman assaults Child Protection and Permanency employee: cops NJ.com - October 18, 2016 A Jersey City woman has been accused of assaulting an employee of the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency in Bayonne, police said. … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: People with bipolar disorder more than twice as likely to have suffered childhood adversity Medical News Today - October 13, 2016 A University of Manchester study which looked at more than thirty years of research into bipolar, found … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Mayanmar: Living in peace: Community engagement for child protection in Rakhine State UNICEF - October 13, 2016 Rakhine State in western Myanmar has seen years of ethnic tensions, causing death, displacement and loss of livelihoods. UNICEF and the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Indonesia: Sex offenders in Indonesia to be castrated or executed under new laws prompted by the shocking gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl Daily Mail - October 13, 2016 The harsher penalties were prompted by the shocking rape and murder of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Furore after child abuse bill stalls in WA Australian Associated Press - October 14, 2016 A West Australian MP's bill to remove the six-year limit for survivors of child sexual abuse to take civil action has stalled in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Parental Leave: Great for Bigger Firms, But Tougher for Small Businesses (Opinion) WBUR - October 13, 2016 As corporate American beings to assimilate the idea that a life-work balance is as important as job satisfaction and pay rate, is your … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Families and Open Adoption (Audio) KUER - October 13, 2016 Today, 95% of infants in the U.S. are placed in "open adoptions" where the birth mother and the family have some sort of contact. Thursday, we're talking about how adoption has changed … [Read more...]