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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: FNHA Partners with KUU-US on Culturally Safe Crisis Response in British Columbia Intercontinental Cry - May 04, 2016 A partnership between the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) and KUU-US Crisis Response Services will result in additional … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: How Child Protection Agencies Are Trying to Predict Which Parents Will Abuse Kids VICE News - May 04, 2016 The new approach is called "predictive analytics," and it's taking the child welfare system by storm. Across the country, from suburban … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: An Ounce of Prevention (Opinion) Psychology Today - May 04, 2016 The value of prevention science remains underappreciated. While candidates at the national, state, and local levels for the presidency and other offices hone their policy agendas, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Childhood Is a Birthright (Opinion) (Includes video) The Huffington Post - May 05, 2016 The "lucky" kids have deeply committed foster parents and live with them just as children who are not in the system live with their parents. The majority … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: To really fight crime--you have to start early and the state needs to fund it: Dave Arnold (Opinion) PennLive - May 04, 2016 If these parents were abused or raised in homes where learning was an afterthought, chances are significantly greater … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Expanding Family-Based Foster Care in PA (Includes audio) Public News Service - May 05, 2016 Joan Benso, president of the group, said the commonwealth has made a lot of progress, but still places children in group homes or institutions more often … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Child safeguarding hub misses targets (Includes video) BBC News - May 04, 2016 A child protection agency set up in the wake of an organized sex ring in Oxfordshire has missed referral response … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Our Inadequate Response to an Underestimated Problem (Opinion) The Chronicle of Social Change - May 04, 2016 If we found out a public health crisis was three to four times greater than previously known, how quickly would Congress authorize … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Lawyer takes on children's life-and-death issues National Catholic Reporter - May 04, 2016 Today, Harfeld is a seasoned staff attorney in Washington for the Children's Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit founded in 1989 at the University of San Diego … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Gov't says North Carolina LGBT law violates civil rights Associated Press - May 04, 2016 The US Justice Department said Wednesday that North Carolina's law limiting protections for LGBT people violates federal civil rights laws. North Carolina … [Read more...]