Adoption Headlines: November 24, 2009

Adoption
Nation: One child at a time
New Jersey: NJ adoption groups push for Assembly to consider bill unsealing adoptee birth ...
Canada: CMAJ editorial calls for more kids to be adopted from child welfare system
Vietnam: Unicef queries circumstances of adoptions from Vietnam
Nation: 4500 foster children adopted on National Adoption Day

Find My Family - new series on ABC

Find My Family reunites biological families after adoption. The preview show is Monday. Check it out: http://abc.go.com/shows/find-my-family

Adoption & Child Welfare Headlines: November 19, 2009

Adoption
Hungary: Hungarian Parliament approves unusual adoption bill
Idaho: Group protests adoption decision

Child Welfare
Arkansas: Court upholds seizure of kids from Alamo compound
Australia: Children's advocate call
Canada: Child intervention under review

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 18, 2009

Adoption
Pennsylvania: Adopted as infant, family ties tug at Villanova's Reynolds
UK: Mother wins right to challenge adoption decision
Texas: Law school to promote National Adoption Day
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan launches 194 proceedings on illegal child adoption

Foster Care
Washington: Yakima program helps foster kids start college
South Carolina: New program gives cars to foster youth
Nebraska: Foster Children Paid To Learn Money Matters

Child Welfare
Massachusetts: Mass. Social Workers Say Commissioner Pushing Too Hard

Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 17, 2009

Foster Care
Australia: Homeless at 18: adult life begins with a thud
Columbus: 120 rally for Rifqa outside courthouse
California: Building families increasingly is the focus of adoptions

Child Welfare
Canada: First Nations children at risk: Madahbee
Michigan: Mich. caseworkers worry about threats from clients
Nation: Colorado State Researcher Studies American Indian Adoption into White Households
International: Counting the world's 'invisible' children

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 12, 2009

Adoption
South Korea: Expats fight to change adoption law
Texas: Viewpoint: Texas freshens 'Why Not Me?' adoption campaign

Foster Care
Oklahoma: Oklahoma kids in DHS care face dangers, report finds

Child Welfare
Colorado: County feeling left out by governor's child abuse task force
Zimbabwe: Child sex abuse rampant in Zimbabwe, says campaigner
World: Child neglect, poverty, abuse among top concerns over children: report
UK: Pupils with special needs to gain right of appeal

Adoption & Child Welfare Headlines: November 11, 2009

Adoption
France: France: Court Rules a Lesbian Can Adopt
Nation: Trafficking reports raise heart-wrenching questions for adoptive parents

Child Welfare
UK: Both Parents To Have The Right To Register Their Child's Birth says Minister ...

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 9, 2009

Adoption
Florida: Governor Crist Applauds Successes of Florida's Explore Adoption Initiative
Nation: Adopted From Korea and in Search of Identity
Ohio: Vanishing family faces
Nation: A New Resource in Lifebook Therapy for Social Workers, Adoptive and Foster ...

Foster Care
Montana: Registry to list potential in-family foster care placements
Michigan: Facing the Mortgage Crisis: Aging Out of Foster Care and Into Affordable Housing

Child Welfare
Connecticut: Racial issues raised at Conn. child welfare agency
Canada: Anishinabek Nation to Develop Own Child Welfare Law
UK: Child protection database goes nationwide

November is National Adoption Month

The Presidential Proclamation of November as National Adoption Month has been posted on the White House website at:
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamations-national-adoption-month

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: November 5, 2009

Adoption
Florida: NRA seeks to halt adoption agencies from asking about gun ownership
Arkansas: Beebe Concerned About Adoption Restrictions in Arkansas
India: HC rejects plea to probe adoption agency

Foster Care
Florida: Disabled foster child granted US residency
California: Federal Judge Blocks Calif. Foster Care Cuts

Child Welfare
Nation: Toolkits Available to Child Welfare Workers to Better Handle Immigration ...
Nation: Former Federal Juvenile Justice Administrators to Gather in Washington on Nov ...
World: Backgrounder: International Children's Day and Universal Children's Day

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November 3, 2009
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