US: Brown Announces Bipartisan Resolution Passes the Senate, Recognizing the Work of Ohio Child and Youth Advocates (Press release) Office of Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator for Ohio - June 30, 2021 U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that his bipartisan resolution he recently introduced with … [Read more...]

US: Envisioning a Different Future for Child Welfare (Opinion) (Requires subscription) Imprint - June 30, 2021 Two documents went into circulation this month that envision a radical shift from child welfare business as usual. One proposes a top-down framework for the actual abolition of what its … [Read more...]

US: Not Just "White Parents with Kids of Color": The Importance of Racial Identity Work for Parents (Opinion) Pact - June 30, 2021 Discussing multiraciality, transracial adoption, and identity have incited the most heartfelt and passionate debates I have ever witnessed in my professional or … [Read more...]

US: The US must adopt child welfare strategies for unaccompanied minors (Opinion) Hill - June 30, 2021 Since January 2021, more than 65,000 unaccompanied children have arrived at the U.S./Mexico border seeking refuge from violence, natural disaster, food insecurity, and poverty in Central America … [Read more...]

US: Biden administration to review Native American boarding schools' dark history (Includes video) Associated Press - June 23, 2021 The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to "uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the … [Read more...]

International: Children's Rights and Alternative Care Human Rights Watch - June 30, 2021 Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child ahead of its upcoming Day of General Discussion regarding children's rights and alternative … [Read more...]

Lebanon: Escalating crisis puts children at risk as the majority of families cannot afford to meet the basic needs of their children (Press release) UNICEF - July 01, 2021 Children in Lebanon are bearing the brunt of one of the world's worst economic collapses in recent times, according to a … [Read more...]

US: COVID-19 imperils progress made in child well-being, says KIDS Count report Deseret News - June 29, 2021 Child well-being slumped in the Great Recession. And a decade of progress since is at risk because COVID-19's global pandemic hurt families, causing record unemployment and interfering with … [Read more...]

PA: Network of Victim Assistance renovates Children's Advocacy Center Lower Bucks Times - June 28, 2021 Network of Victim Assistance announced the renovation of its Children's Advocacy Center in Jamison. The CAC is a nationally accredited service of NOVA that is an interagency collaborative … [Read more...]

US: Mitchell Chapman: Foster care Supreme Court case ends in anticlimax, but its central issues live on (Opinion) Berkshire Eagle - June 28, 2021 On June 17, the Supreme Court gave its ruling on Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case in which Catholic Social Services, a religious foster care … [Read more...]