Americas

This page contains documents and other resources related to children's care in the Americas. Browse resources by region, country, or category.

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The Center on Immigration and Child Welfare,

This toolkit, originally published in September 2010 and updated in February 2015, serves as a resource for social workers in the US who are working with immigrant families within the child welfare system.

Carmen Solomon-Fears, Specialist in Social Policy - Congressional Research Service,

This paper from the US Congressional Research Service provides an overview of fatherhood initiatives in the United States and includes brief evaluations of five of these initiatives.

Elenita Irizarry Ramos - University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus,

This thesis paper employed qualitative methods to capture the online interaction of undergraduate volunteers as part of an undergraduate-student mentorship program. This program was developed to provide mentorship and tutoring for at-risk-youth at a foster care institution.

RELAF y UNICEF,

El objetivo del estudio es presentar el proceso de construcción de una herramienta para medir la institucionalización en forma rápida, a partir de información existente en los países y mostrar los principales datos que se obtuvieron. 

Ramsey County Community Human Services,

In the fall of 2007, Ramsey County Community Human Services (RCCHSD) was one of five sites chosen as recipients of a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children’s Bureau (USDHHS) for the“Using Comprehensive Family Assessments to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes” project, to develop a model of comprehensive family assessment to be used in child welfare. 

Prince Edward Island Community Services and Seniors,

This resource guide offers a fairly comprehensive guide to engaging with the Aboriginal community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. It includes a history of the use of residential schools for Aboriginal children, as well as a description of the widespread removal of Aboriginal children from their families and communities for adoption placement in the 1960s through the 1980s.

Lawrence A. Palinkas, Cherry Short, and Marleen Wong - School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA,

This paper addresses the disconnect between research and practice in regards to child welfare and child mental health services in the US.

RELAF and UNICEF,

This Guide, written in Spanish, features a compilation of several social protection programs, services and public policies that resulted in the prevention of family breakdown and in the support of families and communities in caring and protecting their children.  All these examples are taken from the Latin American region, Italy and Romania.

RELAF and UNICEF,

Esta Guía, escrito en español, es una herramienta diseñada para colaboración con profesionales quienes trabajan en la implementación y manejo de programas de acogimiento familiar en América Latina. 

The First Peoples Child and Family Review Vol 10, No 1 (2015) ,

The First Peoples Child & Family Review proudly presents this Special Edition on Custom Adoptions in partnership with the Siem Smun’eem Indigenous Child Wellbeing Research Network at the University of Victoria. This edition contains research articles, agency experiences, cultural perspectives and personal stories that highlight custom adoption from a historical and contemporary perspective.