Americas

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

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Sonja Lenz-Rashid - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study observes foster care re-entry for young people whose families participated in Cottage Housing Incorporated's Serna Village Program (CHI), a supportive housing program serving homeless families in Sacramento, California. 

Naomi Larsson - The Guardian,

The Guardian discusses the repercussions of funding and volunteering in Haitian orphanages, based on the findings from Funding Haitian Orphanages at the Cost of Children’s Rights, a recent Lumos report. 

Andrea Lane Eastman & Emily Putnam-Hornstein - Child Maltreatment,

This study investigated the connection between past child protective services involvement and type of exit from care for youth in probation-supervised foster care. 

The Texas Tribune & Reveal,

This podcast episode of Reveal explores the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children involved in Texas's foster care system. 

You Soo-sun - The Korea Times,

The recent death of a deported Korean adoptee ignites adoptee-led organizations to call on the Korean government to end the "industrialized international adoption" system in South Korea. 

Janet C. Mann and Dr. Molly Kretchmar-Hendricks - Jessica Kingsley Publishers,

This book draws on over 20 years of work in foster care, along with current attachment research and theory, to question traditional foster care models, make recommendations for improved models of care and interventions, and aid social workers and care professionals to better understand families in crisis and inform their practice.  

Lauren Heidbrink - The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences,

Based on a three-year, multi-sited ethnography with unaccompanied migrant children and their families, this paper investigates how U.S. institutional policies of immigration detention and family reunification impact migrant children and their families. 

Marilyn Boone - CBC News ,

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and Aboriginal leaders to call an inqury on the treatment, experiences and outcomes of Innu children in the child protection system. 

Elizabeth Green - Chronicle of Social Change,

Youth-led, adult-supported advocacy groups are empowering foster youth in the U.S. to participate and show leadership in policy decisions that affect them. 

Child Welfare Information Gateway,

This bulletin is intended for child welfare agency leadership in the US and explores how child welfare agencies can support children who have been victimized as well as children that are at greater risk for future victimization.