US: As Olympians compete for gold in Tokyo, USA Gymnastics may never recover from Larry Nassar (Includes video) (Opinion) Indianapolis Star - July 23, 2021 It all came to a head on Aug. 4, 2016, when IndyStar published the first installment of the series "Out of Balance." The investigation found … [Read more...]

International: 3 ways churches can help families seeking int'l adoptions (Opinion) Christian Post - July 25, 2021 Families who adopt internationally, in fact, are heroes, and heroes that, as the church, we have the opportunity to support. They model the upside-down world of Jesus in how they love … [Read more...]

NY: Foster care children in New York to receive more health services (Includes video) Troy Record - July 22, 2021 The New York State Office of Children and Family Services and the New York State Department of Health recently announced a more comprehensive set of health services to further support … [Read more...]

NY: New York state raises age of legal consent to 18, banning child marriage NBC News - July 22, 2021 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Thursday that raises the age of consent to be married to 18 - effectively banning child marriage. The bill, called Nalia's Law, is named after a survivor … [Read more...]

NY: St. Lawrence County Department of Social Services launches new monthly reporting to legislators (May require subscription) NNY360 - July 22, 2021 After several months of reworking how the Department of Social Services reports information to the St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators, a new … [Read more...]

US: "Pervasive," "ubiquitous," "extremely high": New data reveal the extent of the invasion of Black homes by family policing agencies. (Opinion) NCCPR Child Welfare Blog - July 22, 2021 In 2017, a national study was published which revealed that about one-third of all children and more than half … [Read more...]

US: How the Child Welfare System Made Me Prioritize Education Over Myself (Opinion) Imprint - July 22, 2021 Officials in the child welfare system rave about the 3% of foster youth who age out of foster care who go on to become college graduates - while painfully silencing the experience of the … [Read more...]

US: Lawmakers Back Funding for Foster Sibling Pilot Programs (Requires subscription) Imprint - July 22, 2021 Details aren't available yet, but a key group of Congress members is crediting a former foster youth with inspiring them to introduce legislation that would fund pilot programs targeted at … [Read more...]

US: Minority Child have High Rates of Contact with CPS, Research Shows Legal Reader - July 22, 2021 New research shows that many children have had contact with Child Protective Services (CPS) across the U.S. Findings published the July 19 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of … [Read more...]

US: Suing Child Protective Services When a Child Starves to Death (Requires free registration) New York Law Journal - July 22, 2021 If at some point a lawsuit is brought against the department of human services/CPS in connection with that death, compassionate, yet experienced plaintiff and defense … [Read more...]