Americas

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Family for Every Child,

Family for Every Child, as part of its How We Care initiative, has developed a series on Psychosocial support for children and families during COVID-19, which highlights different approaches taken by three of its member organizations to providing essential psychosocial support to vulnerable children and families within the context of the pandemic.

Family for Every Child,

This How We Care series explores how Family for Every Child's Members are providing essential psychosocial support to vulnerable children and families within the context of the pandemic.

ECDAN,

This webinar includes presentations from panelists in Latin America discussing early childhood programming in the region, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action,

Este webinario presenta la nota técnica de protección de los niños contra la violencia, el abuso y la negligencia en casa.

Lucas A. Gerber, Martin Guggenheim, Yuk C. Pang, Timothy Ross, Yana Mayevskaya, Susan Jacobs, Peter J. Pecora - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study utilizes a qualitative interview-based design to understand how the the interdisciplinary law office approach to parental representation in child welfare, used in the New York City Family Court, works in practice to impact the outcomes of families’ cases.

Betsy P. Goulet,Theodore P. Cross,Yu-Ling Chiu & Susan Evans - Journal of Public Child Welfare ,

This paper chronicles the goals of the partnership and the planning and implementation of the Child Protection Training Academy, developed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and the University of Illinois Springfield in the U.S.

Sonya Stevens, Richard Fiene, Daniel Blevins, Amber Salzer - Children and Youth Services Review,

A mixed method correlational exploratory pilot was conducted in Washington State to determine items within the home study assessment that could be used as indicators to identify baseline requirements of the assessment and suggest anticipated depth (expansion or reduction) within the required topic(s).

ISSA - International Step by Step Association,

This webinar aspires to share examples of successful approaches for supporting the most vulnerable families and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Ukraine.

Labella MH, Lind T, Sellers T, Roben CKP, Dozier M - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology,

The current study uses two randomized control trials, one conducted with foster caregivers and one conducted with birth parents, to investigate the longitudinal effects of caregiver type (foster versus birth parent) and a home-visiting parenting intervention on emotion regulation among young children referred to Child Protective Services (CPS).

Alana Hu, Mark J. Van Ryzin, Maria L. Schweer-Collins, Leslie D. Leve - Child Maltreatment,

The authors of this study analyzed data from a randomized clinical trial of the middle school version of the Keep Safe intervention - an intervention that targets delinquent peer affiliation - in a sample of girls in foster care. The researchers found that the middle school Keep Safe intervention shows promise as a preventative intervention for reducing affiliation with delinquent peers, which importantly is associated with adolescent delinquent behavior.