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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Quality Challenges Persist in Antipsychotic Medication for Foster Care and Other Medicaid-Covered Children Rutgers Today - June 06, 2016 Significant quality challenges persist in antipsychotic medication use for children in foster care and other … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Group Home Closure Eliminates Key Option for Most Challenging Foster Youth Chronicle of Social Change - June 06, 2016 Maryville has been picking up an increasing share of the costs of residential care as DCFS has reduced its subsidy, and the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: CQ NEWS: How Improving Tax Filings on Alimony Could Help Foster Kids CQ Roll Call - June 06, 2016 Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, has an eye on a new tax filing requirement for alimony income that would help pay for an expansion of federal support … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Lax reporting of addicted newborns raising concern Community Newspaper Holdings - June 07, 2016 When a baby born in Minnesota suffers withdrawal or shows signs that its mother used illegal drugs during pregnancy, doctors must call the state … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Where Nearly Half of Pupils Are Homeless, School Aims to Be Teacher, Therapist, Even Santa New York Times - June 06, 2016 At Public School 188, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, students churn relentlessly in and out. Administrators estimate … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Same-Sex Couple Details Adoption Hurdles NBC News - June 06, 2016 "A lot of agencies do not want to adopt to same-sex couples. The way we have experienced it was through a lot of feet … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: 50,792 NJ Spotlight - June 07, 2016 New Jersey had 50,792 children under supervision by the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, a 4 percent increase since 2011, according to the new Kids Count survey. New Jersey Kids Count 2016: … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Spence-Chapin Services to Families And Children Now Licensed as a Full-Service Adoption Agency in Connecticut (Press release) CSRWire - June 06, 2016 Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children announced today that, in addition to New York … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Vatican City: Pope scraps abuse tribunal for negligent bishops Washington Post - June 04, 2016 Pope Francis on Saturday scrapped his proposed tribunal to prosecute bishops who covered up for pedophile priests and instead laid out legal procedures to … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Would mandatory reporting help stop child abuse? The Guardian - June 06, 2016 When a child dies or is catastrophically harmed because of abuse, there is often a knee-jerk political response. Perhaps the most chilling example for … [Read more...]