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National Child Traumatic Stress Network,

This guidance from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network provides information and suggestions for helping children who experience traumatic separation from a caregiver.

Child Welfare Information Gateway,

This report presents data on the total number of adoptions in the United States as well as the number of public, intercountry, and other adoptions. 

NCTSN,

This is a community violence informational document for youth.  It discusses the impact that community violence has had on the lives of young people and provides tips on how young people can look out for their safety. 

NCTSN,

This document is a community violence checklist for youth.  It helps young people asses the level of community violence in their lives.

Editor: Olga Cvejić Jančić,

Meant to highlight the maxim that every child deserves the best that we all have to give; this book provides a review of the progress made since The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  It contains reports from 21 countries on the status of the rights of the child.  The countries are:  Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Solomon Islands, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. There are no reports from Africa.

Sean McIntyre - Case Western Reserve Law Review,

This article from the Case Western Reserve Law Review journal in the United States presents a proposal to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the rehoming of adopted children in the United States.

Sarah Wright Cardinal - Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education ,

This article begins by summarizing the scholarly literature on the "Sixties Scoop," a period in Canadian history in which an estimated 20,000 First Nations, Metis, and Inuit children were removed from their families, and describes a proposed theoretical framework of Indigenous adoptee identity reclamation emerging from my reflexive process in writing a critical personal narrative.

Shanna N. Felix - Georgia Southern University Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies,

This thesis study evaluates the fidelity of a rural Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program in Georgia, USA. The CASA program trains volunteers to serve as special legal representation for children in the court system who have been abused or neglected.

Child Welfare Information Gateway,

This report presents data on the total number of adoptions in the United States as well as the number of public, intercountry, and other adoptions covering 2008 to 2012.

Angela Kyzer; Leanne Whiteside-Mansell; Lorraine McKelvey; Taren Swindle,

This study was carried out in rural Arkansas to examine the feasibility and usefulness of a universal screening tool--the Family Map Inventory (FMI)--to assess family strengths and needs in a home visiting program.