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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Syrian Arab Republic: Whole of Syria Child Protection AOR 2017 Operational Strategy UN Children's Fund, Protection Cluster - July 31, 2017 The relentless violence and dire humanitarian situation in Syria are having a devastating impact on the protection … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway International: The Importance of Intersectionality: Minority Mental Health and Foster Care Human Rights Campaign - July 31, 2017 For too long, studies have documented racial disproportionality and disparity in adoption and foster care. We also know that … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: The vicious cycle of CPS intervention (Opinion) San Francisco Bay View - July 29, 2017 For many children who have been abused, the trauma unfortunately does not end after Child Protective Services intervenes. Failure to Protect laws serve to remove … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Parents' social media habits are teaching children the wrong lessons (Opinion) Washington Post - July 31, 2017 Children are constantly absorbing messages from many sources, including parents. They mimic these observed behaviors in adolescence and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts #8: College Support Programs for Foster Youth The Chronicle of Social Change - July 31, 2017 Offer funding for foster youth mentoring programs on college campuses. Require that any college that received federal … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: No, it's not racist to save minority kids' lives (Opinion) New York Post - July 31, 2017 God knows there are problems with ACS - I have even written a few columns about them - but the idea that racial bias is at the heart of what plagues this … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Norway: Sørlandet can get a combined psychiatry and child welfare institution Norway Today - August 02, 2017 According to a research report from NTNU, 76 per cent of children and adolescents in child welfare institutions have some form of mental … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Native American Students In Crisis: Punitive discipline, substandard curricula put Native American students at risk (Opinion) Nation - July 24, 2017 The roots of the current crisis in American Indian education were planted 138 years ago, when the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: The Problem With Penalizing Women Who Drink While Pregnant (Opinion) Glamour Magazine - August 02, 2017 A new study, published today in Alcohol and Alcoholism, is the first published piece in a large-scale project examining state-level policies … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: President Trump's wall won't stop human trafficking (Opinion) Hill - August 02, 2017 Speaking recently on Long Island, President Trump stoked nativist emotions and stirred unfounded fears when he suggested building a border wall is a solution to … [Read more...]