Americas

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Lauren Brookman-Frazee, Shelley Turner, Jeanne Gordon, Roseann Myers, Kristin Gist, Kelsey S. Dickson, Marisol Meza - Children and Youth Services Review,

The purpose of this study is to (1) retrospectively characterize the specific implementation strategies employed to deliver a coordinated set of evidence-based screening and linkage practices to facilitate identification and treatment of early developmental and social-emotion problems; and (2) examine preliminary indicators of the impact of these strategies.

Julie M. Linton, Elizabeth Kennedy, Alan Shapiro, Marsha Griffin - Children and Youth Services Review,

The purpose of this article is to describe the impact of current and evolving immigration policy on the health of unaccompanied children, to delineate barriers to care and challenges they face prior to gaining legal relief, and to suggest policy recommendations that support health and safety for them from the point of apprehension to and through achieving legal status.

Junhan Cho, Dayoung Bae, Darcey D. Terris, Rachael E. Glisson, Anita Brown - Child & Family Social Work,

The current study examined family and community factors related to home visiting programme engagement in a sample of 1,024 mothers (primary caregivers, mean age 22.89 years) who participated in family support programmes funded through the US state of Georgia's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting programme.

SonjaLenz-Rashid - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study is an outcome evaluation of Bay Area Youth Center's Real Alternatives for Adolescents (RAFA) transitional housing program in Hayward, California.

Barbara H. Chaiyachati, Julie R. Gaither, Marcia Hughes, Karen Foley-Schain, John M. Leventhal - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of voluntary participation in an established statewide home-visiting program for socially high-risk families on child maltreatment as identified by Child Protective Services (CPS). 

Jordan M. Braciszewski, Golfo K. Tzilos Wernette, Roland S. Moore, Tanya B. Tran, Beth C. Bock, Robert L. Stout, Patricia Chamberlain, Adam Vose-O’Neal - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study examines a program (iHeLP) for substance use reduction in foster youth aging out of care.

Kirrily Pells and Virginia Morrow - Young Lives,

In this summative report from Young Lives, an international study of childhood poverty, authors Kirrily Pells and Virginia Morrow highlight the study’s key findings on violence affecting children, exploring what children say about violence, how it affects them, and the key themes that emerge from a systematic analysis of the children’s accounts from study countries of Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.

Gissele Damiani-Taraba, Iona Sky, Dakota Hegler, Nicholas Woolridge, Blake Anderson & Andrew Koster - Child & Youth Services ,

This paper presents the results from a Youth Lead Project on the voices and participation of children in state care in Ontario Canada.

Melissa Hardesty - Social Service Review,

This ethnographic study of a foster care adoption program shows how board payments elicit commodification anxiety at this local site, and in American culture more broadly.

Holly Thurston & Sheridan Miyamoto - Child Abuse & Neglect,

Child welfare agencies are tasked with investigating allegations of child maltreatment and intervening when necessary. Researchers are turning to the field of predictive analytics to optimize data analysis and data-driven decision making. This paper examines the utility of statistical algorithms in predictive analytics.