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Child Welfare Information Gateway E-lert! December 2013 Encourage your colleagues to subcribe to E-lert! To ensure that E-lert! reaches you each month, please add us to your safe senders list. The following new and updated publications and resources are now available from Child Welfare Information Gateway. Use the links listed below, or contact us to request print copies, which we will mail you free if they are available. Share our publications with your colleagues via email, Facebook, and more! The Children's Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood The new e-book combines compelling text with striking historical images to tell the story of a small Federal agency that took on some of the most devastating social problems of the time, including high infant mortality, child labor, and child abuse and neglect. http://cb100.acf.hhs.gov/CB_ebook What's New Social Media: Tips for Foster Care Workers Describes the advantages and challenges workers may encounter when using social media with foster parents and youth in foster care. https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/smtips_worker.cfm Social Media: Tips for Youth in Foster Care Provides guidance for youth in foster care on how to use social media safely and responsibly. https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/smtips_youth.cfm Social Media: Tips for Foster Parents Offers tips on social media usage for foster parents and discusses ways to guide youth in the safe use of social media. https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/smtips_parent.cfm Preparing Children and Youth for Adoption or Other Family Permanency Discusses services for children and youth in foster care to address their readiness and preparation for adoption and other permanent relationships. https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/preparing_youth.cfm Updates Court Jurisdiction and Venue for Adoption Petitions Reviews State statutes designating the appropriate jurisdiction and venue for adoption proceedings. https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/jurisdiction.cfm Definitions of Domestic Violence Provides both civil and criminal definitions of domestic violence and discusses specifications of persons included in the definitions, as well as child abuse reporting and child protection laws. https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/defdomvio.cfm Online Resources for State Child Welfare Law and Policy  Provides web addresses for State statutes and lists the parts of the code for each State and territory that contains the laws addressing child protection, adoption, child welfare, legal guardianship, and services for youth. https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/resources.cfm Did You Know? Immigration and Child Welfare The Child Welfare Information Gateway website features resources to help child welfare professionals understand immigration issues and work with immigrant families. https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/immigration/ In This Month's CBX The December issue of Children's Bureau Express (CBX) spotlights youth, a subsection of the foster care population that has unique needs and faces distinct challenges. https://cbexpress.acf.hhs.gov Subscribe to CBX at https://www.childwelfare.gov/admin/subscribe Upcoming Conferences We will be at the following upcoming conferences. Please stop by and see us if you will be attending! January 26-31: 28th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment 2014 in San Diego, CA January 30: Tribal MIECHV Grantee Meeting in Washington, DC January 31: Tribal Early Learning Initiative Grantee Meeting in Washington, DC Give Us Your Feedback To help us meet your needs, we welcome your ideas and suggestions. Please check out our website for publications surveys and other ways you can provide input. Thank you! Connect With Information Gateway and the Children's Bureau on Facebook Child Welfare Information Gateway and the Children's Bureau are on Facebook! "Like" both pages today and start connecting with others in child welfare and related professions. http://www.facebook.com/childwelfare http://www.facebook.com/thechildrensbureau Contact Information Child Welfare Information Gateway Phone: 800.394.3366 Email: info@childwelfare.gov Web: https://www.childwelfare.gov Chat live with an Information Specialist between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT. E-lert! is a free service of the Children's Bureau/ACF/HHS and Child Welfare Information Gateway.