Americas

This page contains documents and other resources related to children's care in the Americas. Browse resources by region, country, or category.

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Amanda Yoshioka-Maxwell & Eric Rice - AIDS and Behavior,

In the current study, data were collected from 184 youth at drop-in centers in Los Angeles using behavioral health questionnaires to explore the relationships between specific aspects of foster care experiences and engagement in HIV-risk behaviors.

Ashley Curry - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study explores the lived experience of child welfare worker turnover from the child's perspective, adding an important and underrepresented voice in the literature.

Center for the Study of Social Policy,

This study is based on a review of the documented history of Tennessee’s child welfare reform and informed by the reflections and perspectives of many who played key roles in the litigation and related system improvement efforts.

Child Welfare Information Gateway,

This issue brief provides an overview of parent education programming, research demonstrating its benefits, and information about different types and examples of evidence-based and evidence-informed parent education programs.

Daniel Pollack - Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository,

For this legal note, four experienced attorneys who have litigated many child protection cases were asked about the alleged overreaching that US Child Protective Services (CPS) effectuates by improperly removing a child from its parent(s), seemingly without sufficient cause.

Erica Hall - World Vision International,

World Vision commissioned the research, 'No Choice', to better understand children associated with armed groups.

Cailin O’Connor and Stephanie Doyle - Center for the Study of Social Policy,

This resource is designed to help agencies, systems, and collaboratives working with young children and their families to chart a course toward an expanded approach to family engagement.

Laura Baams, Bianca D.M. Wilson, Stephen T. Russell - Pediatrics,

This study assesses whether LGBTQ youth are overrepresented in unstable housing and foster care and examines disparities in school functioning, substance use, and mental health for LGBTQ youth versus heterosexual youth in unstable housing and foster care.

Nathaniel Mitchell, Walden University,

The purpose of this action research study was to investigate social workers’ perceptions of the problems that prevent successful family reunifications after foster care. The study explored social workers’ perceptions of barriers that prevent family reunifications in central Mississippi, USA.

Children's Bureau,

The Call for Abstracts for the 2019 US National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit is broad and inclusive. Any proposal that substantively contributes to one or more of the three primary goals—building evidence, strengthening practice, and informing policy—will be considered.