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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts #12: Connecting Foster Youth with Virtual Coaches Chronicle of Social Change - August 04, 2017 Harris proposes that Congress fund "a competitive pilot program" that would assign a virtual success coach to a foster … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Call the opioid crisis what it is: A national emergency (Opinion) Durham Herald-Sun - August 04, 2017 "With approximately 142 Americans dying every day, America is enduring a death toll equal to Sept. 11 every three weeks," the commission wrote in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: New attitudes toward adoption offers hope Washington Post - August 06, 2017 More than 110,000 children in the U.S. foster care system are legally free for adoption, yet more than 20,000 of these kids will never find an adoptive family. After a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Foster Care as Punishment: The New Reality of 'Jane Crow' New York Times - July 21, 2017 In interviews, dozens of lawyers working on these cases say the removals punish parents who have few resources. Their clients are predominantly poor black and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Judges are supposed to 'second guess' - it's their job (Commentary) Staten Island Live - August 04, 2017 Staten Island's state Sen. Diane Savino seems to have a problem with judges doing their jobs. She is upset that sometimes when caseworkers for … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway United Kingdom: Baby Boxes: Seven Things New Parents Need To Know Huffington Post UK - August 08, 2017 Baby boxes are nothing new, having been around for almost a century in some parts of Northern Europe, but now many parents in the UK are choosing to … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Ireland: Rabbitte calls for additional resources to support mandatory reporting Fianna Fail - August 07, 2017 "We completely support the introduction of mandatory reporting, which is part of the Children First legislation. However, introducing mandatory … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway International: Are People Who Don't Let their Kids Choose their Gender Unfit Parents? (Opinion) Education News - August 07, 2017 This week, the Daily Signal reported that a Canadian province in Ontario: . . . passed a law allowing state agencies to … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Australia: Baby boxes could drastically reduce sudden infant death cases in Australia.There's just one hold up (Includes video) Mamma Mia - August 07, 2017 So what makes the original Finnish baby boxes so good? Well, they've got almost everything that … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Australia: Baby Bjay Johnstone's 'tragic' death prompts child protection changes News Grio - August 08, 2017 Coroner Olivia McTaggart found in June that the six-week-old died as a result of severe head trauma inflicted by his father. She also found that … [Read more...]