Americas

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

Displaying 1671 - 1680 of 3117

List of Organisations

Natasha Hudek - University of Ottowa,

The current studies used longitudinal data collected across 7 years from a sample of 1,765 children, 5 to 14 years old, in out-of-home care in Maryland, USA. This first study examined the trajectories of anxiety and depression across age and time in care separately and the second examined the reciprocal relationships across time between anxiety, depression, and significant risk and protective factors from Study 1.

National Family Support Network,

This webinar, hosted by the National Family Support Network, will introduce the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support. 

Nico Trocmé, Tonino Esposito, Jennifer Nutton, Valerie Rosser, Barbara Fallon - National Systems of Child Protection,

This chapter describes the child protection system in Canada.

Lisa Merkel-Holguin, John D. Fluke, Richard D. Krugman,

This volume provides a wide spectrum description analysis of the contemporary and well established child protection systems in a range of countries, such as Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Spain and the United States.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network,

Este Seminario en línea ayuda a proveedores, cuidadores primarios y otros involucrados en el cuidado de los niños inmigrantes, a reconocer los efectos de la separación traumática en estos niños a diferentes edades.

Nathanael J. Okpych, Mark E. Courtney - Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice,

This article analyzes secondary data collected from one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies of foster youth.

Toni Watt, Monica Faulkner, Sheila Bustillos, Elissa Madden - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal,

Findings from this study suggest that waivers may be a viable strategy for promoting higher education among foster youth.

Svetlana Stankovic and Gabrielle Jackson - The Guardian,

This article introduces a series from the Guardian that explores the experiences of fathers on paternity leave or caring full-time for their children.

UNICEF,

En este informe de la Infancia en peligro se evalúan las causas estructurales de las migraciones irregulares procedentes del norte de Centroamérica y México, y se analizan las distintas dificultades y peligros a los que se enfrentan los niños migrantes y refugiados y sus familias durante los arduos procesos de migración y retorno.

Carlomagno C. Panlilio, Sheridan Miyamoto, Sarah A. Font, Hannah M. C. Schreier - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The objective of this study was to assess item characteristics indicative of the severity of risk for commercial sexual exploitation among a high-risk population of child welfare system involved youth to inform the construction of a screening tool.