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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Dollars and Priorities: Preventing Child Abuse (Opinion) The Chronicle of Social Change - June 08, 2016 Hughes notes that prevention is often conflated with intervention; programs implemented after a call of abuse are lodged. True prevention, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Protecting kids: Is more reporting necessarily better? (Opinion) Philly.com - June 07, 2016 Expanding the definition of mandatory reporters and increasing the number of reports leads to a culture of suspicion. This further marginalizes … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Special Education Providers Receive Reimbursement Rate Increase My Champlain Valley - June 07, 2015 Schools benefiting from this increase serve approximately 13,500 students across the state with needs such as emotional or physical disabilities, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Child fatality review team to welcome international expert for local training Niagara Frontier Publications - June 07, 2016 The Niagara County Child Fatality Review Team is bringing an internationally recognized expert in child abuse pediatrics … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: State Assembly Dems reach compromise on abuse victims’ law New York Daily News - June 08, 2016 The bill would extend the time that criminal or civil cases against predators can be brought, treat public and private institutions equally when it … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: A Little Faith and a Lot of Sunshine for New Jersey Foster Youth (Includes video) The Chronicle of Social Change - June 07, 2016 Foster and Adoptive Services, a leading statewide advocacy agency for foster, adoptive and kinship parents, based in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: The path to becoming a racial justice organization (Opinion) (Includes video) Connecticut Post - June 07, 2016 The work is comprehensive and is infused into everything we do - from trauma informed care to engaging adolescents on identity … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Thousands of abused and neglected children invisible to social workers Third Force News - June 06, 2016 Up to 8,000 children in Scotland who are abused or neglected are not known to social workers, the head of the National Society for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Responding to child maltreatment Medical Xpress - June 06, 2016 The most recent figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show that nearly 152,000 children have received child protection services. Indigenous children are … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: 6 problems with the foster care system -- and what you can do to help (Opinion) Mashable - June 04, 2016 According to the latest statistics available, as of September 2014, more than 415,000 children and teens were in the foster care system at … [Read more...]