Americas

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Global Social Service Workforce Alliance,

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance is recruiting a new director.

Angelina Chapin - Huffington Post,

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.

Bianca Wilson - The Chronicle of Social Change,

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.

Disability Rights International,

Este informe documenta violaciones a derechos humanos, explotación y trata de niñas, niños y adolescentes con y sin discapacidad en instituciones Guatemala.

Disability Rights International,

This report from Disability Rights International documents the human rights violations, exploitation, and trafficking of children with and without disabilities in Guatemala.

Glen Casel - Orlando Sentinel,

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.

The Capacity Building Center for States,

This event aims to develop agency capacity and programs that foster healthy work environments for child welfare professionals.

Sita Bridgemohan - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday,

According to this article from Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, the Children Authority in Tobago plans to regularize foster care and promote kinship care in the country.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network,

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.

Chantal Da Silva - Newsweek,

According to this article from Newsweek, children as young as one year old who have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico have been ordered to appear in immigration court alone.