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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Today's Editorial: Center shines light on dark crisis Daily Item - July 05, 2017 The opening of a new $11 million Center for Healthy Children at Penn State University is clearly an illuminating action plan emerging from the horrific child sex abuse … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Judge keeps former Penn State leaders' sentences intact in first appellate reviews PennLive - July 05, 2017 A senior judge from Berks County has issued a batch of new orders in the cases of the three former Penn State administrators convicted of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: Statewide data breach affects Adams County Gettysburg Times - July 06, 2017 A statewide data breach reached Adams County Children and Youth Services, compromising 53 people's personal information, officials said Wednesday at the commissioners' … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway CT: Federal monitor: Too many foster children's needs still unmet Connecticut Mirror - July 05, 2017 Too many Connecticut children in foster care are not receiving the mental health services, child care and housing supports they need, partly because the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway United Kingdom: Child emotional abuse reports surge 200% amid cuts to child protection services Independent - June 20, 2017 The number of children being reported as victims of emotional abuse has soared by 200 per cent in seven years, more than any other … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Ireland: Foster care system 'besieged' Breaking News .ie - June 21, 2017 "The whole care system is under tremendous pressure and TUSLA is under tremendous pressure in terms of it's quite a besieged agency at the moment," he said. "One of the issues … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Reps. Terri Sewell and Lloyd Smucker: Congress can help foster children find a loving home (Opinion) Washington Examiner - June 20, 2017 Specifically, our bill will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to modernize licensing standards … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: House Passes Rep. Chu Bill to Help Keep Families Together During Addiction Treatment (Press release) Office of U.S. Representative Judy Chu - June 20, 2017 Introduced by Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27), H.R. 2857 will allow for states to be reimbursed for the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Child-protective workers warn system is swamped New York Daily Star - June 20, 2017 New York's safety net for abused and neglected children is under stress - with caseworkers charged with keeping those youngsters safe often overwhelmed with more … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Broome County releases findings on causes of childhood deaths (Includes video) Binghamton Homepage - June 20, 2017 The Broome County Child Fatality Review Team has released a report after looking into 83 cases of unexplained and unexpected deaths … [Read more...]