Americas

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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.

Erica Hall - World Vision International,

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

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.

Kimberly Y. Huggins-Hoyt, Harold E. Briggs, Orion Mowbray, Junior Lloyd Allen - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study examined the effect of privatization policy on the issue of racial disparity in the child welfare system.

Trupti Rao, Elizabeth Reiman, Ashley Ausikaitis - Social Work,

In this exploratory study, through use of an online anonymous survey, local county child welfare caseworkers were asked to self-rate their knowledge of, exposure to, and comfort levels with children with developmental disabilities.

Annie E. Casey Foundation,

This report turns the lens on young people who age out of foster care and explores four areas — education, early parenthood, homelessness and incarceration — where they fare worse than their general population peers in the US.

Kelley Fong - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of Child Protective Services (CPS) reports during early childhood and substantiated investigations during childhood for children living in different types of neighborhoods.

Jessica N. Fish, Laura Baams, Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, Stephen T. Russell - Child Abuse & Neglect,

Using a two-study design, this study tests whether sexual minority youth are overrepresented in child welfare, foster care, and out-of-home placement using nationally representative data from the United States.

Omattie Madray and Zenainda Rosales - RISE América Latina,

In this webinar presented by RISE Learning Network, Omattie Madray and Zenainda Rosales presented an extensive study recently carried out which analyzed over 100 documents and conducted over 20 interviews to gain insights on practices of organizations supporting and caring for boys affected by sexual violence in their recovery process.