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Summer-Fall 2018 Newsletter  Welcome to the Women’s Support Center’s e-newsletter designed to keep you informed of current activities. Below WSC highlights the work carried out in the past few months to ensure the safety of women and children, victims of domestic violence, and advocate for change. Engage with WSC by following  Facebook ,  website , and  contacting  WSC. Women’s Support Center would love to hear from you! NEW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW Since the passage of the new Domestic Violence(DV) law in Armenia, we have been working intensively on developing mechanisms for Police and Social Workers to facilitate the law’s monitoring and implementation. This is an ongoing process to improve services for DV victims and to ensure the prevention of DV cases. Tragically, during the first 6 months since the law was passed, and since police started to record DV cases, hundreds of cases of domestic violence have been reported. These include 9 DV related deaths, which is...

As a former board member of Kybele, Inc., I cannot contain my joy in seeing all of the great accomplishments in advancing women's health care in labor and delivery.  A million kudos to all of the volunteers and our friend Dr. Medge Owens for her tireless dedication to expanding the good work to save mothers' and infants' lives around the world. Keep on Pushing!      KYBELE LEADS INNOVATIVE TRIAGE PROGRAM IN GHANA ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Buffalo Field Office, Child Citizenship Act Unit, prepares Certificates of Citizenship for certain internationally adopted children who enter the United States and are eligible to receive a Certificate of Citizenship under the  Child Citizenship Act (CCA). The USCIS Buffalo Field Office processes these certificates for newly arrived children with IR-3 and IH-3 immigrant visa classifications. The Buffalo Field Office is updating its current process for CCA cases to ensure that it continues to issue Certificates of Citizenship in a timely manner. Issuing Certificates of Citizenship Eligible Child under age 14 when they enter the U.S. Certificates are mailed within 60 days from the date the child enters the U.S. Eligible Child age 14 or over when they enter the U.S. The Buffalo Field Office will transfer cases to a local field office where the process will be completed.  In most cases, the local field office will schedule the ...

Melanie Chung Sherman, LCSW, a guest presenter will bring an important topic that falls outside of Robyn Gobbel’s area of expertise!  Building Trust by Addressing the Hard Stuff: Race & Development Working with children who have experience complex trauma, toxic stress, and/or adoption often means working with children of color.   Melanie Chung Sherman, LCSW  will help us tackle this tough topic so we can better support children who experience the toxic stress of racism. Melanie has expertise in adoption, attachment, and complex trauma.  She’s an excellent presenter and obviously in an hour webinar she will only be able to gloss over the tip of the iceberg.  Nonetheless, this will be an important webinar for everyone: Parenting a child of color Working with children of color (teacher, social worker, case worker, CASA, therapist, Sunday School Teacher, etc.) Feeling uncertain or uncomfortable about how to address the impact of race and racial awareness As...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS) invites the general public and other Federal  agencies to comment upon this proposed revision of a currently approved collection of information or new collection of information. In  accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the  information collection notice is published in the Federal Register to obtain comments regarding the nature of the information collection, the categories of respondents, the estimated burden (i.e. the time, effort, and resources used by the respondents to respond), the estimated cost to the respondent, and the actual information collection instruments. Continue reading.

Source:  http://www.rts.rs Although a large number of abandoned children in Serbia are awaiting adoption, some of their families are never found in our country. Only in the course of 2015, eighty-four Serbian children were adopted by foreigners. Adoption is free and rigorous, according to the relevant ministry, adding that the most interested adopters from Sweden and America are. Methus is a police detective from Detroit, and his wife Kristin’s nurse. Thousands of miles from America to Serbia, they say, were not an obstacle for them to come to Belgrade and adopt a five-year-old girl. "At the very beginning, we did not immediately choose Serbia, but when we saw the girl waiting for her parents and all her qualities, we decided to come right now." We chose Serbia only because of the small, talented singer, "says Kristin Van Rahprost, adoptive. Foreigners admit Serbian children according to our rules and are dictated by the Family Law. Unlike domestic adopters, strangers of...