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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: Quebec moves toward more open adoptions Montreal Gazette - October 06, 2016 Quebec's proposal to modernize its adoption laws, to allow adopted children and their birth parents to learn about their identity and medical history, is good news … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Lessons for Child Welfare From the Tales of Wells Fargo (Opinion) Youth Today - October 06, 2016 Financial incentives matter. They matter in child welfare, too. Information Gateway resource: COA Standards: … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: It's Time to Really Pay Foster Parents (Opinion) The Chronicle of Social Change - October 06, 2016 Our current foster care structure is based on an outdated model: families with one breadwinner and a stay-at-home mom. This traditional family had … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: 11 Investigates: CYF officials respond to backlash over recent child abuse cases (Includes video) WPXI - October 06, 2016 After a week that saw four children removed from deplorable conditions in McKeesport following their parents' overdose … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: #AsktheMayor: Child Protective Services, Rent Exemptions and JCOPE Subpoenas (Audio) WNYC - October 06, 2016 The Brian Lehrer Show: Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC, including … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: DCF is facing criticism over child's neglect KITV - October 06, 2016 After a report was recently released, the Department of Children and Families is receiving criticism over a child's neglect. While DCF recognizes their mistakes, a report … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: New Zealand: Child abuse sentence 'disgraceful': Sensible Sentencing Trust (Opinion) Stuff - October 06, 2016 Home detention is a disgraceful sentence for years of child abuse, the Sensible Sentencing Trust says. A Hamilton couple who hit, kicked and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Netherlands: Rotterdam calls for 'incompetent mothers' to take compulsory contraception Independent - October 05, 2016 Rotterdam city council has called for mothers, judged to be incapable to raise children, to be given compulsory contraception by … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: De Blasio lays out ACS reforms in wake of abused boy's death New York Daily News - October 05, 2016 With child welfare Commissioner Gladys Carrion sitting next to him, Mayor de Blasio declared Wednesday at a City Hall presser that the mission of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Chobani announces six weeks, 100 percent paid parental leave policy KMVT/KSVT - October 05, 2016 Greek yogurt company Chobani announced Wednesday its new parental policy that will give full-time employee six weeks of 100 percent paid leave for a … [Read more...]