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This mixed methods study examined elements of effective implementation and the effectiveness of an incentive program piloted in a group home serving adolescent boys.
Although the US has ended its policy of family separation for families crossing the US border with Mexico, experts state that it may take years to reunify the families that have already been separated at the border due to different obstacles, according to this article from the Guardian.
The aim of the systematic review described in this article was to determine the outcome of child maltreatment in long-term childcare and the scope of the evidence base in this area.
This webinar, organized by the National Family Support Network, seeks to answer the following questions: (a) What is both the history and current landscape of the Family Support and Strengthening Field in the United States? (b) What is a Family Resource Center and how are they networked across the country? (c) What is the connection of Family Resource Centers to evidence-based practice and what positive outcomes have they achieved for children and families?
The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance is recruiting a new director.
The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law has filed a report in a U.S. federal court containing more than 200 accounts of abuse and "horrific conditions" faced by migrant children and their parents in Border Patrol stations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and detention centers, according to this article from the Huffington Post.
In this piece for the Chronicle for Social Change, Bianca Wilson, a senior scholar of public policy at the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, argues that there is a need to collect data on the number of LGBTQ youth in the US child welfare system.
In this article, Glen Casel - CEO of Community Based Care of Central Florida - makes a connection between the current family separation crisis at the US border with Mexico and the family separations that occur in the US child welfare system.
This event aims to develop agency capacity and programs that foster healthy work environments for child welfare professionals.
This webinar, from the U.S. National Child Traumatic Stress Network, as part of its Childhood Traumatic Grief e-learning series, focuses on helping providers, current caregivers, and others understand and recognize the effects of Traumatic Separation in immigrant children of different ages, understand immigrant children’s prior trauma experiences, and provide practical suggestions for how to support immigrant children who have been separated from parents and siblings.