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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Amid Cuts to Youth Services, Trump Includes Big Increase to Child Welfare Entitlement Chronicle of Social Change - May 26, 2017 President Donald Trump's 2018 budget proposal includes a slate of deep cuts and eliminations of programs aimed at … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Why Child Abuse in Military Families May Be Going Unreported Pew Charitable Trust: Stateline - June 07, 2017 Advocates for children celebrated last year when President Barack Obama signed a law meant to keep military officials from concealing … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: When Children Must Be Saved from Their Saviors (Opinion) Chronicle of Social Change - June 07, 2017 Back when cases involving missing children - many of them runaways from foster care - were making headlines in Washington, D.C., Marie Cohen … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Senators Introduce Legislation to Improve Affordable Care Act, Make Coverage More Affordable for Middle-Class Families (Press release) Office of U.S. Senator for California Dianne Feinstein - June 07, 2017 Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Bridging the Digital Divide to Help Youth Succeed After Foster Care Chronicle of Social Change - June 07, 2017 According to a study by nonprofit organizations iFoster and Foster Care Counts, a researcher at the University of Southern California … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Faces of the Social Services Block Grant National Association of Counties (NACO) - June 08, 2017 The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), a flexible funding source that can used for nearly 30 different types of services, allows states and local … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: LGBTQ advocates say federal legislation would allow religious adoption agencies to discriminate Pittsburgh City Paper - June 07, 2017 Proposed federal legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Butler) is looking to alter the national … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: State Could Be First State to Take Closer Look at Adoption Subsidies Chronicle of Social Change - June 02, 2017 When adoptions from foster care fall apart, youth often end up back in foster care, with a biological relative, or on the streets. But … [Read more...]

Adoption Alert—Suspension of Adoptions from Ethiopia This updates our April 21, 2017 Adoption Alert to provide additional information on the Government of Ethiopia’s recent suspension of adoptions. On April 21, the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s Office declared an immediate suspension of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Australia: Youth homeless hell: not enough beds for local kids Tweed Daily News - June 06, 2017 The Tweed has only four crisis accommodation beds for homeless children and teenagers - the worst in the state, according to a local provider. The … [Read more...]