NY: Facing critical foster need, NY social services transitions to keeping kids with kin (Includes video) WCAX - November 11, 2021 There's an urgent need for foster and kinship families in New York's North Country, a problem that experts say has been made worse by the pandemic. A recent federal … [Read more...]

NY: New York Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Kin Caregivers are Denied Rights by Foster Care System Imprint - November 11, 2021 Legal advocates for children in New York City have filed a federal lawsuit against the city and state alleging officials unjustly prohibit relatives from becoming foster … [Read more...]

US: Campaign Pushes for Children and Parents' Right to Quality Legal Counsel Imprint - November 11, 2021 Since the 1960s, it's been a core principle of American criminal law - you have the right to an attorney in federal and state courts. Now, a campaign is underway to extend that guarantee to … [Read more...]

US: Grant Funds National Effort to Engage Foster Youth in Decisions About Care (Requires subscription) Imprint - November 11, 2021 A national effort is underway to establish new systems in child welfare to better engage and empower foster youth to take part in the decision making around their own … [Read more...]

US: The System That Locks Away Youth is Not Justice (Opinion) Imprint - November 11, 2021 By imprisoning youth, our society creates two victims: the person who pressed charges and the person found guilty by a jury of their peers. Locking young people up is a twisted form of justice; it is a … [Read more...]

Afghanistan: Girls increasingly at risk of child marriage in Afghanistan (Press release) UNICEF - November 12, 2021 The extremely dire economic situation in Afghanistan is pushing more families deeper into poverty and forcing them to make desperate choices, such as putting children to work and … [Read more...]

International: Leaders in Paris call for protecting children online Associated Press - November 11, 2021 Internet giants, including social media apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, joined several world leaders to issue a global call to better protect children online at a Paris summit … [Read more...]

NY: Families sue for due process in NY foster care system Courthouse News Service - November 10, 2021 Despite providing a loving home for the toddler, B.B.'s great grandparents weren't approved last year for a state program to get financial support as foster parents. Regulators pointed back to … [Read more...]

US: Absolutes Hurt the Conversation on Bettering Child Welfare (Opinion) Imprint - November 10, 2021 As I get older, I find that the more I learn about our system, the less I understand it. That's because within child welfare, the facts are nuanced, the stories rarely flow in a linear way and … [Read more...]

US: How child sexual abuse survivors can inadvertently get victimized twice (Opinion) (Requires subscription) New York Law Journal - November 10, 2021 Child sexual abuse survivors can sometimes get victimized twice. First, they get abused. The second time may be by their own parent(s). The key … [Read more...]