Tune into CBS’s 20th anniversary of A Home for the Holidays December 21 (8 p.m. EST) to help the Foundation raise awareness of the importance of foster care adoption. With host: LL Cool J and performances by Gwen Stefani, Train, Andy Grammer and Lukas Graham. For the past two decades, A Home For … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway United Kingdom: The number of reports to children safeguarding services in Portsmouth has risen Portsmouth Today - November 29, 2018 Between April 2017 and March 2018 there were more than 20,000 reports to the city's multi-agency safeguarding hub … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway International: Trilateral Working Group Seeks to Prevent and Respond to Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls DIPNOTE (US Department of State Official Blog) - November 29, 2018 Across North America, women in indigenous communities face … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Government could hold migrant families indefinitely in unlicensed detention centers under new plan Reveal from the Center for Investigative Journalism - November 19, 2018 Migrant families could be held indefinitely in unlicensed detention centers … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Babies born in withdrawal new complication in opioid cases Springfield News-Sun - November 28, 2018 The expansive court case seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for the nation's opioid crisis has a new complication: How does it deal with claims … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: The Tornillo shelter for migrant children was supposed to close after 30 days. Here's why it's still open PBS News Hour - November 29, 2018 An emergency detention camp that opened this summer to help with an influx of migrant children was supposed to … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway PA: This one isn't just a child welfare issue, It's also a First Amendment issue (Commentary) NCCPR Child Welfare Blog - November 27, 2018 Last month the Legal Intelligencer began a series of stories about the horror show that is foster care in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: When Parents Are Detained Who's There for the Kids? East Hampton Star - November 29, 2018 It is a scenario that has been playing out over and over here and across the country since the Trump administration made immigration enforcement a front-burner … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: The Tragedy of Family Court (Commentary) City Journal - November 29, 2018 The New York Family Court system was established in 1962 to oversee cases involving neglect, support, paternity, adoption, juvenile and family offenses, and child … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: New York City Council Confronts Child Welfare Agency Over Emergency Parent-Child Separations Chronicle of Social Change - November 29, 2018 New York City Council pressed the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) Commissioner David Hansell on … [Read more...]