Americas

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Eleanor Goldberg -- Huffington Post,

According to this report from The Huffington Post, children already at risk for human trafficking face greater risk due to the Hurricane Matthew.

Loyola University Chicago - Center for the Human Rights of Children,

The Center for the Human Rights of Children and MALA will host a screening of "What Tomorrow Brings", a powerful film that goes inside the very first girls’ school in one small Afghan village. This event is open to the public. Students, faculty, and community members are invited to honor the UN's International Day of the Girl, which aims to ensure a world free of discrimination for young women and girls.

National Child Workforce Institute,

The webinar will focus on a comprehensive approach to strengthening supervisory practice throughout Indiana’s Department of Child Services (DCS). The session will focus on the development and refinement of a range of inter-connected supervisory initiatives in Indiana, including:

Lumos USA,

Location: Washington, USA

Slayter, Elspeth M - American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities,

This article is a discussion of the state of foster care for children with disabilities.  This study explores three areas related to foster care outcomes: 1) previous disrupted or dissolved adoptions among youth with and without intellectual disabilities; 2) demographic or disability related disparities of youth with intellectual disabilities who were and were not discharged from care; and 3) foster care outcomes of youth with and without intellectual disabilities. 

IRC,

This position provides child protection technical leadership in the design and development of programs for children in countries in conflict, crisis, post-conflict and post-crisis settings across the world, with a specific focus on research, monitoring and evaluation for child protection.

James David Simon; Devon Brooks - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study examines the relationship between different areas of family need and the utilization of home-based, post-investigation services (HBPS) following a child protective services (CPS) investigation.

American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children,

The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) is now recruiting for the position of Executive Director.

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the sixteenth session (15 Aug 2016 – 2 Sep 2016) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Nadine Ajaka - The Atlantic,

The Atlantic reviews the challenges children face in the rural Kentucky.