Americas

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Ashley L. Landers, Jennifer L. Bellamy, Sharon M. Danes, Alan McLuckie, Sandy White Hawk - Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research,

The literature examining reunification for American Indian children reveals mixed findings regarding racial differences. Studies that isolate the impact of race on reunification while controlling for other covariates are needed, and this study fills that gap.

Debbie Cenziper, Emily Corio, Kelly Hooper and Douglas Soule - The Washington Post,

This article from the Washington Post tells the story of family separation due to the opioid epidemic in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

ISS-USA,

ISS-USA announced their 7th Annual Conference, Beyond Separation: Protecting Cross Border Families, co-hosted by the University of Maryland School of Social Work from Thursday, October 17th through Friday, October 18th.

Jessica L. Chou, Shannon Cooper‐Sadlo, Rachel M. Diamond, Bertranna A. Muruthi, Sara Beeler‐Stinn - Family Process,

This study explored the construct of mothering children during family‐centered substance use treatment using a transcendental phenomenological approach.

National Family Support Network,

This webinar will present the research findings about grandparents, highlight work with grandparents from a Family Resource Center within a NFSN Member Network, and share resources available for multigenerational families and the professionals who support them.

Jacqueline Huscroft-D'Angelo, Alexandra L. Trout, Christine Henningsen, Lori Synhorst, Matthew Lambert, Irina Patwardhan, Patrick Tyler - Children and Youth Services Review,

This exploratory study gathered perspectives from legal professionals regarding the challenges faced by youths in out of home care and their families and necessary supports to promote successful reunification.

Nick Estes - High Country News,

This article from High Country News explores the history and legacy of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the United States, a school where many Indigenous children who had been forcibly separated from their families by US policy were sent.

Karen Milligan, Tamara Meixner, Monique Tremblay, Lesley A. Tarasoff, Amelia Usher, Ainsley Smith, Alison Niccols, Karen A. Urbanoski - Child Maltreatment,

The authors of this study systematically compared parenting interventions offered in 12 maternal substance use treatment programs in one Canadian province with those described in the research literature.

Cynthia Osborne, Hilary Warner-Doe, McKenna LeClear, Holly Sexton - Child Maltreatment,

The present study is the largest and most rigorous study to date on the effects of being appointed a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) on permanency outcomes of children in foster care.

Roger J. R. Levesque - Adolescents and Constitutional Law,

This chapter examines how the competing goals of child welfare systems work with the developments in constitutional rights.