Americas

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Loring Jones - Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services,

This review examines the legislative history leading up to extended care, the research on youth leaving foster care, youth preferences for extended care, the competition of extended care with permanency options, and the effects of extended foster care on transition-age youth.

Rong Bai, Cyleste Collins, Robert Fischer, David Crampton - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study explores facilitators of and barriers to effective collaboration between workers at partner organizations working on a program focused on the reunification of housing-unstable families with their children in out-of-home placement in the US.

McKenna Corlis, Amy Damashek, Kate Meister, Hilary Richardson, Barbara Bonner - Child Maltreatment,

This study examined child protective service (CPS) involvement of children surviving the child maltreatment fatality (CMF) of a sibling as well as predictors of subsequent CPS reports.

Dworsky, A., Gitlow, E., Horwitz, B., & Samuels, G.M. - Chapin Hall & Voices of Youth Count,

This Research-to-Impact brief is the seventh in a series of briefs that presents key findings from Voices of Youth Count. It elevates the voices of young people whose pathways into homelessness included time in foster care and points to opportunities for prevention and intervention.

Committee on Oversight and Reform, U.S. House of Representatives,

This staff report has been prepared at the request of Chairman Elijah E. Cummings to summarize the data obtained by the Committee on Oversight and Reform's subpoenas to compel the Trump Administration to produce documents relating to its policy of separating immigrant children from their families.

Sutasinee Seeprapitkoon & Wariya Lamlert- Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Surin Rajabhat University,

This article aims to study the legal measures that Thailand should take to solve the problem of abandoned children in unsafe places.

Casey Family Programs,

This issue brief describes family resource centers, their defining characteristics, and what is known about their effectiveness in reducing child welfare involvement. The brief also discusses return on investment and what is missing from the research literature.

Annie E. Casey Foundation,

This Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation explores how the child population, and childhood experience, of the US has changed since 1990. It also presents national and state data on 16 indicators of child well-being across four domains — health, education, family and community and economic well-being.

Howard Dubowitz, Scott Roesch, Amelia M. Arria, Richard Metzger, Richard Thompson, Jonathan B. Kotch, Terri Lewis - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between the timing and chronicity of neglect during childhood and substance use in early adulthood.

J. Jay Miller, Jessica Donohue-Dioh, Jacquelynn F. Duron, Jennifer M. Geiger - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study investigated foster parent (N = 792) perspectives about the legal representation of foster youth involved in dependency court proceedings in the US.