Americas

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Davielle Lakind & Marc S. Atkins - Children and Youth Services Review,

This article presents evidence for innovative service models from within and outside of the parenting literature that provide support to individuals and families in communities of poverty, highlighting aspects of service models that align with the needs of high poverty families.

Arno Parolini, Aron Shlonsky, Joseph Magruder, Andrea Lane Eastman, Fred Wulczyn, Daniel Webster - Data in Brief,

This article describes a dataset containing information on children exiting to kinship guardianship in California between 2003 and 2010.

Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP),

The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) is hosting a webinar to present a new cafe model from Be Strong Families.

Jamie Cage, Nicole A. Corley, Leon A. Harris - Children and Youth Services Review,

Using an intersectional framework, this study investigated whether race and gender alone or the intersection of race and gender predicted the educational attainment of 429 maltreated youth involved with the U.S. child welfare system.

SOS Children’s Villages and Deutsche Post DHL,

SOS Children’s Villages and Deutsche Post DHL are organizing an event hosted by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN entitled “DECENT EMPLOYMENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AT RISK: MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIPS TO LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND.

Mariana Incarnato y Andrés Segade - DONCEL,

El presente artículo busca describir brevemente las trayectorias de los adolescentes y jóvenes en su transición del sistema de cuidados alternativos a la vida adulta en América Latina.

Center for the Study of Social Policy,

This resource from the U.S. Center for the Study of Social Policy presents recommendations highlighting strategies for improving the delivery of developmental screening and early intervention for children who become known to state and local child welfare systems.

CEN,

Esta llamada a la acción se propone activar, o profundizar y fortalecer —según el estado de avance en cada país— apuntan a poner fin al acogimiento de niños y niñas en centros residenciales sin que éste responda a los principios de necesidad e idoneidad encuadrados en las Directrices de Naciones Unidas sobre las modalidades de cuidado alternativo de los niños.

CEN,

This call to action was issued by the Center of Excellence for Children in Latin American (CEN - el Centro de Excelencia por la Niñez), a joint initiative of RELAF and Hope and Homes for Children, in response to a fire that killed 41 girls and injured 15 others in a children's home in Guatemala in March 2017.

Maria Vidal de Haymes, Adam Avrushin, Deidra Coleman - Children and Youth Services Review,

The current study considers the educational experiences of unaccompanied immigrant children (UIC) in the Chicago metropolitan area from the perspective of diverse education, human service, and legal professionals that work with this population in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) facilities, post-release, and community contexts.