Americas

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List of Organisations

Kay Biesel, Judith Masson, Nigel Parton,

This book brings together knowledge of how modern countries in Europe and the United States deal with the issue of errors and mistakes in child protection in a cross-national perspective.

Crampton, D., Fischer, R., Richter, F., Collins, C. C., Bai, R., & Henderson, M. - Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development,

This report presents the results of an evaluation of the Partnering for Family Success (PFS) program, which was conceived as an innovative intervention to address the particular needs of housing unstable families who had a child in the custody of the county child welfare agency.

Shannon A. Moore and Kimberley Duffin - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care,

This paper invites the reader to imagine residential child and youth care as having a central connection to experiential nature-based therapies across rural and urban settings.

Lamminen, Laura M.; McLeigh, Jill D.; Roman, Heidi K. - Practice Innovations,

This article describes a trauma-informed and integrated child welfare model, including information about its development, structure and organization, and programs. It concludes with a discussion of lessons learned and remaining challenges. 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau, Child Welfare Information Gateway, and the FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention,

This Resource Guide offers support to community service providers as they work with parents, caregivers, and children to prevent child maltreatment and promote social and emotional well-being.

Paula Barbel - Nursing2020,

This article takes a look at physical and behavioral health problems in children and teens in foster care in the U.S. and offers information and tips for providing care to this vulnerable population.

National Head Start Association,

This brief from Head Start provides an overview of state funding for Head Start, a collection of comprehensive birth to five programs in the U.S. specifically designed to strengthen families, promote school readiness, and improve child health.

Devansh Saxena, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Pamela Wisniewski, Shion Guha ,

Using a human-centered algorithmic design approach, the authors of this study synthesize 50 peer-reviewed publications on computational systems used in the U.S. Child Welfare System (CWS) to assess how they were being developed, common characteristics of predictors used, as well as the target outcomes.

David Royse and Austin Griffiths,

This book prepares future child welfare professionals to tackle the complex and challenging work associated with responding to child maltreatment.

Heather J. Risser, Kimberly Svevo-Cianci, Elba Jung Karim, Alexandra E. Morford - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice,

The authors of this study propose a strategy that increases system collaboration, leverages existing infrastructure, and adopts multi-source funding models that invest in prevention services to inoculate society against child abuse and neglect (CAN).