PA: Gov. Wolf Signs Bill Providing Tuition-Free College To Pennsylvania Foster Youth (Includes audio) WPSU - August 12, 2019 Starting with the fall 2020 semester, Pennsylvania youth who have been in foster care will be able to attend any college or university in Pennsylvania tuition free thanks to … [Read more...]

PA: Pa. governor demands details about ICE family separations in Philadelphia Hill - August 12, 2019 Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) is requesting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provide details on all children in the state who have been separated from their parents under the Trump … [Read more...]

US: Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts #4: Expand Eligibility for Chafee Foster Youth Programs Chronicle of Social Change - August 12, 2019 Scott's set of recommendations would open up the two Chafee Foster Care Independence Programs to children who have achieved permanence by adoption or … [Read more...]

US: Silent No More: Allegations of sexual abuse, cover-ups inside Jehovah's Witnesses Organization (Includes video) WLWT - August 12, 2019 A year-long investigation by the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit has uncovered new allegations of child sexual abuse and decades-long cover-ups … [Read more...]

US: OUR OPINION: Better plan needed for children left behind after ICE raids Daily Journal - August 11, 2019 The raids were defended by U.S. authorities saying the secretive operation was successful, despite the fact that the Department of Child Protection Services and local schools were left … [Read more...]

US: Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who was friends with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, explained Vox - August 10, 2019 The girls and women who reported abuse by Epstein, meanwhile, were markedly powerless. Most of them "came from disadvantaged families, single-parent homes or foster … [Read more...]

France: French child protection group urges Epstein investigation Reuters - August 13, 2019 The Innocence en Danger group said in a statement on Tuesday it had written to the Paris public prosecutor to urge France to open an investigation into Epstein. On Monday, Marlene Schiappa, France's gender … [Read more...]

New Zealand: Let's direct our anger to the real cause of child abuse, not the social workers (Includes video) (Commentary) Stuff - August 11, 2019 The social workers at Oranga Tamariki are taking a beating. In recent weeks, they've been labelled "baby snatchers" and "kidnappers", and accused of … [Read more...]

CT: Report: DCF fails to meet 5 criteria in court-ordered plan Middletown Press - August 09, 2019 The latest report from the federal monitor of the state Department of Children and Families shows that the agency continues to fail at five measures that are part of a court-supervised exit … [Read more...]

NY: Child Victims Act 'day of reckoning' looms for diocese, Scouts -- and schools Buffalo News - August 11, 2019 She says her music teacher, Patrick Kuciewski, began sexually abusing her in the seventh grade. Because of New York State's statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases, which only … [Read more...]