Americas

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Gissele Damiani-Taraba, Iona Sky, Dakota Hegler, Nicholas Woolridge, Blake Anderson & Andrew Koster - Child & Youth Services ,

This paper presents the results from a Youth Lead Project on the voices and participation of children in state care in Ontario Canada.

Abhishek Pandey, Kerry Littlewood, Larry Cooper, Julie McCrae, Michelle Rosenthal, Angelique Day, Liliana Hernandez - Journal of Women & Aging,

This study utilizes self-report data from one kinship navigator federal demonstration project, which used a randomized control trial, to examine demographic characteristics for grandmothers under and over 55 years of age, whether grandmother caregivers (≥55 years) improve family resilience, social support, and caregiver self-efficacy, and which interventions improved outcomes for grandmothers (≥55 years).

University of Curaçao Dr. Moises Da Costa Gomez, Universiteit Leiden, UNICEF,

The Frontiers of Children's Rights in the Caribbean Region Spring School is a special edition of the Leiden-based Frontiers of Children's Rights Summer School, organised in close cooperation with the University of Curaçao Dr. Moises Da Costa Gomez.

Parolini A, Shlonsky A, Magruder J, Eastman AL, Wulczyn F, Webster D - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study examines the factors associated with guardianship breakdown for children who exited foster care to kinship guardianship in California between 2003 and 2010.

Jennifer Clarke, Sonia Mills Minster, Leyland Gudge - Today’s Youth and Mental Health,

This chapter explores the factors that are hidden behind the disproportionate numbers and considers the mental health impact of child removal on Black children, youth, and families in Ontario.

Melissa Hardesty - Social Service Review,

This ethnographic study of a foster care adoption program shows how board payments elicit commodification anxiety at this local site, and in American culture more broadly.

Berenice Rushovich, Kelly Murphy, Jessica Dym Bartlett - Child Trends,

This blog post from Child Trends presents findings from an evaluation of three models of trauma-informed care in the US child welfare system.

Human Rights Watch,

Este informe examina el cumplimiento por parte de las autoridades estadounidenses de las protecciones específicas que deben otorgarse a los niños, basándose en 110 entrevistas a niños y mujeres detenidas con sus hijos.

Human Rights Watch,

This report examines US authorities’ compliance with the specific protections that should be afforded to children, drawing on 110 interviews with children themselves or women detained with their children.

Holly Thurston & Sheridan Miyamoto - Child Abuse & Neglect,

Child welfare agencies are tasked with investigating allegations of child maltreatment and intervening when necessary. Researchers are turning to the field of predictive analytics to optimize data analysis and data-driven decision making. This paper examines the utility of statistical algorithms in predictive analytics.