Americas

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Emmanuel Grupper, Shachar Shuman - FICE Israel,

FICE Israel decided to initiate a short survey to document and share information about the way different countries handled their policies and practices in residential care facilities during that period. This report presents findings and some conclusions from this primary survey.

World Vision,

This child-led research initiative was conducted under the umbrella of World Vision’s DEAR project (Development Education and Awareness Raising) and the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. The study explores explore SDG 16.2, the goal that focuses on the issue of ‘abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and all forms of violence against and torture of children’.

Yvonne A. Unrau, Ann W. Dawson, Jonathan C. Anthony, Tamara M. Toutant, Ronicka D. Hamilton - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper explores how college graduates with foster care histories fare after graduating from a 4-year college that offered a campus-based program.

Pamela Jiménez-Etcheverría & Jesús Palacios - Children and Youth Services Review,

The first aim of this study was to examine differences in the socio-emotional functioning of adopted and institution-reared children in Chile. The second aim of this study was to examine the influence of adoption related variables on the psychological adjustment of adopted children.

Yanfeng Xu, Charlotte Lyn Bright, Richard P. Barth, Haksoon Ahn - Child Maltreatment,

This study selected children who remained in kinship care (N = 267) for three waves from nationally representative data and examined the longitudinal associations among poverty, economic pressure, financial assistance, and children’s behavioral health outcomes in kinship care.

Joanne Filippelli, Kristen Lwin, Barbara Fallon, Nico Trocmé - Child Maltreatment,

This study uses secondary data analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2008 to explore what case and worker factors predict the provision of ongoing child welfare services.

Merav Jedwab, Yanfeng Xu, Terry V. Shaw - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study focused on kinship care as the top of the hierarchy of out-of-home care placements and utilized data obtained from a U.S. mid-Atlantic State Automated Child Welfare Information System. The study followed children who placed in out-of-home care over a three-year period.

Stephanie Grace Prost & Jennifer S. Middleton - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The current study aimed to describe the relative contributions of measures of professional quality of life (ProQOL) to intent on leaving the workforce among child welfare professionals.

Qi Wu, Yiqi Zhu, Ijeoma Ogbonnaya, Saijun Zhang, Shiyou Wu - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study systematically summarizes the effect of parenting interventions on kinship foster caregivers and their cared for children, and examines the intervention strategies and research methods used in order to provide a context in which to better understand effects of interventions.

Amnesty International,

This document from Amnesty International reports on the family separations happening at U.S. immigration detention facilities in light of the COVID-19 crisis.