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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Europe: Refugee crisis: Lost children and displaced families Punjab Star News - June 12, 2016 Keeping track of unnaccompanied children is difficult especially in areas filled with people smugglers. Many missing or unaccompanied children are thought … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: State Laws Address Heatstroke Deaths of Unattended Children and Pets in Cars Council of State Governments - June 10, 2016 On June 3, 2016, Gov. Kasich of Ohio signed into law a bill to allow bystanders to break into hot cars with unattended … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Should native American families have precedence in foster placement? Christian Science Monitor - June 10, 2016 The Indian Child Welfare Act routinely faces legal challenges, as native American children are placed in the foster care system at a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Interior Secretary Says Changes To Indian Child Welfare Act 'Close Loopholes' (Includes audio) NW News Network - June 10, 2016 A day after tribal leaders and governors in all 50 states received a letter from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: High Quality Early Care and Education is Child Maltreatment Prevention (Press release) US Department of Health and Human Services - June 10, 2016 As ACF celebrates its 25th anniversary, and National Child Abuse Prevention Month and National … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Bipartisan House, Senate Leaders Announce Proposed Child Welfare Legislation (Press release) U.S. Senator Ron Wyden - June 10, 2016 "This bill has the potential to improve the lives of millions of children, parents and kin caregivers. While key … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Report from Baby Jail on our Border (Opinion) Medium - June 13, 2016 I just got back from a week of volunteering in Dilley, Texas at the South Texas Family Residential Facility (AKA Baby Jail) and I have some things to report. I am a young … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Legislators who backed abuse bill feel heat from church Philly.com - June 09, 2016 Legislators expressed outrage this week after, they said, they had been named by priests at Mass or in parish bulletins, or in other ways rebuked by the Catholic … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Another state budget impasse would devastate social services: here are three ways to protect them (Opinion) Philly.com - June 10, 2016 For more than nine months, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania operated without a budget. The budget impasse left … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: State pays $1.25M to settle foster child sex abuse lawsuit NJ.com - June 10, 2016 The state has agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the adoptive parents of a boy who endured physical and sexual abuse in multiple foster homes … [Read more...]