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A random sample of licensed foster parents caring for children with disabilities in a major Canadian city was asked “what are the problems you encounter fostering a child with a disability?”
A great change is coming over childhood in the world’s richest countries. Today’s rising generation is the first in which a majority is spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. This Report Card discusses the opportunities and risks involved in the child care transition, and proposes internationally applicable benchmarks for early childhood care and education.
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This issue of A Closer Look examines:
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Journeys of Faith: A Resource Guide for Orphan Care Ministries Helping Children in Africa and Beyond
This resource is designed to be used as a guide for those in the Faith community working with orphaned children.
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The CWLA National Adoption and Foster Care Training Conference is scheduled for December 10-12, 2007, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference will feature workshops and information on all facets of adoption and foster care.
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The U.S. Embassy in Vietnam points to poor regulation as the basis for denying intercountry adoptions.
A personal story about adopting a child from Guatemala.
This issue brief discusses the importance of childcare for disaster recovery and provides policy recommendations on how to protect and restore community childcare infrastructure in disasters.
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The United States expects to endorse the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, a multilateral treaty intended to protect children by standardizing international adoption procedures, later this year. Guatemalan Congress recently failed to pass a bill recongizing Guatemala's endorsment of the Hague Convention in 2003. Once the United States enforces the Hague Convention (anticipated early 2008), it will refuse permission to adopt Guatemalan children until Guatemala implements the treaty as well.
A short paper on the importance of child care provision as a critical service in helping local communities recover post disaster. It gives 4 policy recommendations for protecting and restoring child care infrastructure.
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