Americas

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Heather A. Turner, Jennifer Vanderminden, David Finkelhor, Sherry Hamby - Child Maltreatment,

Using a pooled data set of two waves of the National Surveys of Children’s Exposure to Violence, this study investigates links between indicators of socioeconomic resources and lifetime exposure to two different forms of child neglect (physical and supervisory), examines how neglect is associated with the risk of other types of victimization, and estimates the impact of neglect on trauma symptoms.

Faith to Action Initiative,

The Faith to Action Initiative is seeking a Director of Engagement.

Save the Children,

This series of videos highlights Save the Children's work in Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico to protect migrant and returnee children. 

Lindsay Huffhines & Yo Jackson - Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma,

The goals of this study were 1) to examine this relation in youth placed in foster care with high levels of maltreatment exposure, and 2) to investigate the relation between maltreatment frequency and acute pain, and maltreatment frequency and general chronic health condition.

Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press,

Adam Crapser, a man born in South Korea who was brought to the US by an adoptive family when he was three years old, is suing the government of South Korea and a private adoption agency called Holt Children’s Services, "over what Crapser calls gross negligence regarding the way he and thousands of other Korean children were sent to the United States and other Western nations without accounting for their future citizenship," according to this article from the Associated Press.

Elizabeth A. Sharda, Carolyn G. Sutherby, Daniel L. Cavanaugh, Anne K. Hughes, Amanda T. Woodward - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study aims to add to existing knowledge by exploring the impact of caregiving on kinship caregivers, particularly the stress and social support they experience and the subsequent effect on their well-being.

Christian M. Connell, Christopher T. Bory, Cindy Y. Huang, Maegan Genovese, Colleen Caron, Jacob Kraemer Tebes - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study examined the relationship of caseworker ratings of risk across multiple domains to youth functioning and service use for a sample of children open to the child welfare system.

Nancy MacDonald - The Globe and Mail,

"In the Cowichan Valley, a growing network of mothers, advocates, midwives, doctors and elected officials is trying to take a different approach to address the ‘humanitarian crisis’ of Indigenous kids in care" in British Columbia, Canada, says this article from the Globe and Mail.

Sandra Jee, Dena Phillips Swanson, Laurence I. Sugarman, Jean-Philippe Couderc - Developmental Child Welfare,

In this article, the authors reflect on a pilot project implementing a mindfulness-based stress reduction program among traumatized youth in foster and kinship care.

Shaylim Castro - Reuters,

"Some 3 million Venezuelans have migrated in three years, putting a growing strain on the country’s children as more parents are forced into the heart-wrenching decision to leave," says this article from Reuters.