Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: March 31, 2010

Adoption
Florida: Online adoption ads often not legit, experts say

Foster Care
South Carolina: Camp eases families, children through death of a loved one
California: Agency: Half of foster parents criminals

Child Welfare
Australia: Mediation to decide a child's best interests

Adoption and Foster Care Headlines: March 25, 2010

Adoption
Nation: Health care reform bill increases adoption tax credit
Romania: Romanian Office for Adoptions suggests lifting some restrictions imposed on ...

Foster Care
Oklahoma: Report slams DHS' care of children

Adoption & Foster Care Headlines: March 24, 2010

Adoption
Florida: Seven Claim Adoption Agency Rolled Them
Romania: Petition on international adoptions in Romania is put end to

Foster Care
California: LA County to develop foster care investigative unit
Virginia: Virginia considers changing foster care system

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: March 23, 2010

Adoption
New Jersey: NJ Senate approves open adoption birth records bill
Australia: Online investigation into overseas adoptions
Romania: Romanian Office for Adoptions: Romania entirely observes law on international ...
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz Parliament passes children adoption bill by foreigners

Foster Care
New York: Suits Would Burden Foster Parents, Court Rules
Tennessee: Bill would repeal part of law that caps amount Tennessee pays toward foster care
Arkansas: Review shows foster system improving

Child Welfare
Wisconsin: Child welfare report offers a mixed bag

Adoption & Child Welfare Headlines: March 19, 2010

Adoption
Romania: International adoptions involving Romanian children will enter the agenda of ...
India: At last, US couple's wait to adopt child ends

Child Welfare
Colorado: Penry urges oversight into why child-welfare death investigations not completed

Adoption & Foster Care Headlines: March 18, 2010

Adoption
Florida: Florida Legislature to consider bills on adoption, civics education
Guatemala: Guatemala to resume int'l adoptions in June
UK: Catholic adoption charity may appeal in equality case, British High Court rules
Florida: Lawmaker files bill to end ban on adoptions by gays

Foster Care
Washington: Parents of foster kids need basic services, study says

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: March 17, 2010

Adoption
Germany: German twins to get special adoption treatment
Illinois: Local couple stuck in Mexico as problems with adoption arise
Florida: Senate finally allows debate on gay adoption

Foster Care
Pennsylvania: Help in transitioning out of foster care
New Jersey: N.J. legislators look to help foster care children remain in home school district
Florida: Bucs' Faine spreading interests to troubled youth

Child Welfare
Canada: Aboriginal Child Welfare in Dire situation; more children in foster care than ...
Louisiana: Miranda rights were applied too broadly in rape case, Louisiana Supreme Court ...

Adoption & Foster Care Headlines: March 16, 2010

Adoption
Colorado: Adoption waiting list gets shorter in Colorado
UK: Barnardo's reveals south Asian child adoption 'delays'

Foster Care
Michigan: Michigan developing plan to improve foster care
Kansas: Criticism and praise for groundbreaking foster-care system in Kansas
Alaska: House passes foster care transition funding
California: Learning self-reliance: Emancipated foster youth share success stories in ...

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: March 11, 2010

Adoption
Nation: Ethiopian Adoption Update
Nation: Klobuchar bill aims to ease international adoptions
Rwanda: Rwanda: Country to Set Up National Adoption Centre

Foster Care
Georgia: House Passes Legislation To Ease Transitions For Children In Foster Care

Child Welfare
Michigan: Children's Rights Report Shows Slow Progress
Florida: Flexible Funding Improves Child Welfare in Florida
Hawaii: No more cuts, aid workers plead
Ohio: $1.2M settlement reached in Ohio caged kids case
Namibia: Namibia: Baby Dumping a Growing Social Problem in Country

Adoption & Child Welfare Headlines: March 9, 2010

Adoption
Nation: Uncle Sam can help pay some adoption costs

Child Welfare
Australia: Child protection laws strengthened

Adoption & Foster Care Headlines: March 8, 2010

Adoption
Nebraska: Man fighting for son his ex gave up for adoption loses in Nebraska Supreme Court

Foster Care
Idaho: Idaho House OKs grandparents foster care bill

Adoption & Foster Care Headlines: March 5, 2010

Adoption
Colorado: Adoption initiative halves numbers of kids needing families
Australia: Ethiopia adoption ban lifted
Louisiana: State appeals birth certificate ruling in gay adoption case
Nation: US warns against adopting in Nepal

Foster Care
Michigan: Chief Justice: State Budget Cuts Are Hurting Court Programs

Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: March 3, 2010

Foster Care
Idaho: Bill sets priorities in placement of children in foster care

Child Welfare
Idaho: Senate: Toughen sentences for horrific child abuse
Nation: CWLA Releases National and State-by-State Statistics Providing a Snapshot ...
Nation: New formula to give fresh look at US poverty

Volunteers Needed for National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare & Adoption Law

Volunteers needed to judge and bailiff the oral argument rounds on Friday, March 12 at the Ohio Statehouse & Saturday, March 13 at the Supreme Court of Ohio at our National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare & Adoption Law.
For more details go here: http://www.ncalp.org/mootcourt.htm

Adoption, Foster Care & Child Welfare Headlines: March 2, 2010

Adoption
Haiti: Earthquake Exposes Haiti's Faulty Adoption System
Ethiopia: Adoption watchdog suppresses Ethiopia findings and `Forgeries and lies' in Australian adoptions of Ethiopian children

Foster Care
Oregon: Bill Expands Health Coverage for Former Foster Youth
Florida: Regulations sought for foster kids prescribed psychiatric drugs

Child Welfare
New York: Prison moms want more leeway in parental rights cases
Iowa: U of I experts to aid state in evaluating child abuse