Americas

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List of Organisations

Sabrina R. Gonzalez - University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons,

This qualitative study, conducted as part of a Doctoral dissertation, used intensive interviews to explore the trajectory of a small number of youth who have transitioned out of foster care in the US, outlining the social, economic and psychological barriers they faced while also charting the attitudes, behaviors and experiences that allowed them to successfully exit the foster care system and move toward productive adult lives.

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 

CTV News ,

According to the article, the Child and Family Services unit of the Manitoba government in Canada has been using hotels to house foster children, despite the province’s promises to end this practice over the last decade.

Joshua Ostroff - Huffington Post Canada ,

Manitoba is trying an unconventional new approach to addressing the current foster care crisis in the aboriginal community, in which many children are being removed from their cultural communities. With this new solution, when a child protection worker is called to investigate a suspected case of child abuse, it is the parents who will be removed from the home, rather than the children.

Alyssa Jeong Perry - The Guardian ,

Adam Crasper, a man who was adopted from South Korea to the United States in 1979 now faces deportation as he was never naturalized as a US citizen. This article explores his tale in-depth and sheds light on immigration issues related to intercountry adoption.

Jennifer Teska - Cinahl Information Systems, a division of EBSCO Information Services ,

In this “Quick Lesson About Therapeutic Foster Care,” the author provides a description of, and background information on, therapeutic foster care in the United States, an overview of national statistics regarding therapeutic foster care, and an overview of the risk factors and symptoms associated with children in need of therapeutic foster care.

Christian Alliance for Orphans,

The organizations profiled in these case studies have pioneered effective transitions from residential to family-based care. 

Marc R. Rosenblum - Transatlantic Council on Migration ,

This report examines the policy challenge in the United States of balancing protection and immigration enforcement in the recent unaccompanied child migration “crisis” in the US.

Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Kimberly Boller, Madeline Young, Jaime Thomas, and Daisy Gonzalez - Mathematica Policy Research Issue Brief,

This brief from Mathematica Policy Research presents findings from the Informal Caregivers Research Project on informal caregivers’ and parents’ networks in the US. The research focuses on child care arrangements and sources of support and information related to caregiving.

Ron Haskins, Janet Currie, and Lawrence M. Berger - The Future of Children Policy Brief Spring 2015,

This brief from the Future of Children Journal, a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution, outlines the current state of the Child Welfare System in the United States, particularly federal funding to individual states’ child welfare systems.