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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Philippines: Agencies join efforts for enhanced child protection Sun Star Network - August 30, 2017 The Ifugao Provincial Police Office, Department of Education, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office, and the Provincial Health Office signed a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Israel: State reverses opposition to same-sex couples adopting children Times of Israel - August 29, 2017 The Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry has reversed its opposition to same-sex couples adopting children in Israel, less than a month after … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Should you put a newborn in a baby box? 4 questions with an expert (Includes video) Asbury Park Press - August 29, 2017 "There has been testing at the baby box companies, and it meets standards in Canada and the U.K. Irish babies and Canadian babies … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: New Research Links Increased Minimum Wage to Reduced Child Maltreatment Chronicle of Social Change - August 29, 2017 The study found that the 30 states that had exceeded the federal minimum wage by a dollar reflected a reduced risk of child welfare … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Five Lessons for Implementing Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare Chronicle of Social Change - August 29, 2017 While clinicians or social workers might be good at identifying people in immediate danger, recognizing often complex patterns of "long … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Post-Adoption Support Program Will Help Rockland Families New City Patch - August 29, 2017 The Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York has opened a Rockland County office to help adoptive families and relatives who have guardianship of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Kenya: & Somalia: & Ethiopia: The effects of drought in the Horn of Africa go far beyond hunger Child Fund Alliance - August 31, 2017 After two years of below-normal rainfall, the Horn of Africa has been hit with the worst drought in over half a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Sessions: Drug overdoses 'the top lethal issue' in the US Associated Press - August 29, 2017 Sessions spoke to the annual conference of the National Alliance For Drug Endangered Children. He said preliminary data show nearly 60,000 overdose deaths in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Math Isn't Biased, But Big Data Is (Opinion) Forbes - August 30, 2017 Put biased data into an unbiased equation and you get biased results. Those biased results may then influence the courts, child welfare systems or your business. Mathematician … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Lawyers for Child Welfare and Legal Aid Under Scrutiny for Facebook Posts New York Times - August 30, 2017 The disparaging banter was the kind of back-and-forth seen on social media and celebrity gossip sites, but it was apparently an exchange among … [Read more...]