Americas

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Karen McVeigh - The Guardian,

"The mothers of Haiti’s 'peacekeeper babies' have filed the first legal action against both the UN and individual peacekeeping soldiers in paternity and child support claims," according to this article from the Guardian. 

Judy Havlicek, Ashley Curry, Fabiola Villalpando - Children and Youth Services Review,

This qualitative study explored youth participation from the perspectives of 42 primary foster youth advisory boards facilitators in 34 states in the USA.

Michael J.Tanana, Mindy J. Vanderloo, Jeffrey D. Waid - Children and Youth Services Review,

To help promote the use of administrative data to inform child welfare programming, this paper provides an overview and demonstration of a Feedback Improvement System with web-based visualization technology to illustrate child- and agency-level child welfare data from the state of Utah.

Adolfo Flores - BuzzFeed News,

Several immigrant advocacy groups have filed a complaint against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), "accusing the agency of separating an increasing number of families at the border and urging immigration officials to stop the practice," according to this article from BuzzFeed News.

Amnoni Myers - The Chronicle of Social Change,

This essay, written by a former foster youth, provides an overview of a study conducted by the author to examine how several grantmakers in California support foster youth in building social capital.

Ruth A. Huebnera, Martin T. Hallb, Erin Smeadc, Tina Willauerd, Lynn Posze - Children and Youth Services Review,

This is a prospective study of 28 family mentors providing peer recovery support services to 783 families with child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders (SUD) over 8 years in a family-centered integrated program with SUD treatment providers.

Jordan Press - The Canadian Press,

An upcoming report from the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness indicates that there is a strong link between youth homelessness and foster care, with nearly three out of every five Canadian homeless youth having been a part of the child welfare system at some point, says the article.

UNICEF,

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist for Ending Child Marriage.

UNICEF,

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist for its New York Headquarters. 

Children’s Bureau,

This six-part video series provides an overview of the United States National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) and the NYTD Review, a federal review conducted by the Children’s Bureau to assess how states collect and report data on youth transitioning out of foster care.