Americas

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DONCEL,

Ese video explica el sistema de cuidado alternativo en Argentina, particularmente la utilización de “hogares convivenciales,” donde viven juntos muchos niños y niñas separados de sus familias y el trabajo de DONCEL a ayudar a esos niños y niñas.

Maureen Samms-Vaughan - Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support,

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support provides an overview of the National Approach to Parenting in Jamaica and the lessons learned from the program.

Future of Children Volume 24 Number 1 Spring 2014 - Princeton-Brookings,

This issue of the US-based journal Future of Children, entitled ‘Helping Parents, Helping Children: Two-Generation Mechanisms,’ reviews intervention programs for children and families of low socioeconomic status and on the mechanisms of child development that those intervention programs are trying to influence.

LeeAnne Dewar, Deborah Goodman - Child Welfare Institute, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto ,

This literature review examines literature on the best practices for youth aging out of care that indicate successful outcomes for them as adults. 

Felipe Lecannelier, Jaime R. Silva, Marianela Hoffmann, Rolando Melo and Raquel Morales,

Infant Mental Health Journal has published an important Special Issue on Global Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in the Care of Infants and Young Children at Risk. This article reports on a quasi-experimental study commissioned by the Chilean government that had two general aims: (a) to assess infants’ psychoaffective developmental levels and (b) to evaluate whether an intervention based on the promotion of socioemotional development modifies the infant's psychoaffective development. 

Mary E. Haskett, Jessica Loehman and Kimberly Burkhart -- Child and Family Social Work,

The aim of this literature review was to critique the state of the research on the effects of implementing parenting programmes in shelters for homeless families. A comprehensive search of multiple databases yielded 12 studies for inclusion. 

Victor Groza and Kelley M. Bunkers - Infant Mental Health Journal,

This article uses data collected from adoptive parents’ postadoption and governmental data in Romania, Ukraine, India, Guatemala, and Ethiopia to focus on domestic adoption in each of these countries. The article highlights both promising practices in domestic adoption as well as policies and practices that require additional research.

Children's Bureau,

After the cancellation of the 2013 US National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit, the Children’s Bureau decided to develop short videos as a means of sharing ideas and issues that could not be presented at the conference. The result is the Virtual Summit Series, a group of 17 videos that combine illustration, animation, motion graphics, and content from national experts.

Dr. Jeff Linkenbach, The Montana Institute and Jay Otto of Montana State University - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control ,

This guide serves as a supplement to the United States CDC guide “Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments.” It provides guidance on creating a context for increasing safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and families by promoting positive community norms.

Dr Anita Schrader McMillan - JUCONI, with support from Family for Every Child ,

This paper reports on the Mexican arm of Family for Every Child’s three-country study on strategies to ensure the sustainable reintegration of children without parental care.