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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Connections: Fragile Lives Series Looks At The State Of Foster Care (Audio) WXXI - April 13, 2016 In honor of Child Abuse Awareness month, WXXI News --in participation with Side Effects Public Media-- is presenting Fragile Lives, a series about … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: International: Placing Muslim orphans into real homes (Opinion) Altmuslimah - April 20, 2016 While sending money from afar to an orphanage is admirable, we need to do more. New Star Kafala is the only Muslim American adoption agency whose mission … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Greenland: The Arctic Suicides: It's Not The Dark That Kills You (Includes audio) National Public Radio - April 21, 2016 Her observations are in line with something psychologists and sociologists think is fundamental to the causes of suicide in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Georgia: UN Special Envoy Concerned About Children's Rights in Georgia Georgia Today - April 20, 2016 The Dutch-born de Boer-Buquicchio emphasized that despite the government's effort to better protect children from abuse, violence and exploitation … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Referrals to Australian child protection services increase 6% in a year The Guardian - April 21, 2016 The number of children who received child protection services has jumped by 6% in one year, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: States weigh costs, benefits of undocumented immigrant parents Stateline - April 20, 2016 As U.S. Supreme Court justices weigh whether President Barack Obama has the power to grant legal work status to about 3.5 million undocumented immigrant … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Prison's extended punch--Female children of inmates at greater risk for neurological problems Medical News Today - April 20, 2016 A secondary analysis of data gathered in scores of interviews with female inmates suggests girls who have an … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: 3 Tips for New Foster-Adoptive Parents (Opinion) The Huffington Post - April 20, 2016 We were seriously under-prepared for our journey as foster parents. If you're starting the process to become a foster parent, or if you're fairly new to this … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: India: Child marriages prevented The Hindu - April 18, 2016 Officials of the Women and Child Welfare Department, with their timely intervention, prevented eight child marriages at a mass marriage function held during the Amatayya Tata temple fair at … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Columbia: Government reaches deal with striking child welfare workers Columbia Reports - April 16, 2016 Colombia's government has reached an agreement with child care workers who have been on strike for 11 days, allowing the women to return to work … [Read more...]