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This article from the Child Law Practice Today July/August 2017 Issue on Kinship Care summarizes seven steps to create a kin-first culture—one in which child welfare stakeholders consistently promote kinship placement, help children in foster care maintain connections with their families, and tailor services and supports to the needs of kinship foster families.
This article from the Child Law Practice Today July/August 2017 Issue on Kinship Care explores kinship care in the US, including its benefits to children and families.
This study examined the prevalence of maltreatment and violent discipline from both the adolescents’ and parents’ perspectives.
The current study tests the ‘overburdening’ hypothesis that examines whether taking on the demands of work and school at the same time could overwhelm and actually hinder the healthy development of youth as they transition from foster care.
In this opinion piece from Independent Australia, Gerry Georgatos refers to Australia's recent branding as the "child removal capital of the world" and the negative impacts of child removal and family separation on children and families.
This sudy sought to deepen understanding of the underlying patterns of services receipt of the John F. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP) to prepare for youth’s successful transition to adulthood. The authors used multi-level latent class analysis (MLCA) to identify underlying combinations of service receipt that may be influenced by youth-level and state-level characteristics.
In this piece for Youth Today, Richard Wexler - executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform - calls out child protection policies in the US for too often unnecessarily removing children from poor families due to parental mental illness and what the child protection agencies deem as inability to raise children "independently."
Applications for the next two-year term of the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance's Ambassador Program, beginning in September 2018, are now being accepted through January 8.
BCN is seeking a Regional Coordinator for our Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Initiative on Children without Appropriate Family Care.
La FICR y el SSI, en nombre de un grupo directivo interagencial, solicitan ofertas para una consultoría institucional con el fin de desarrollar un curso en línea abierto a todos sobre los cuidados alternativos para los NNA en el contexto de la migración internacional.
