Americas

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The Guardian,

According to this article from the Guardian, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has reported that over 900 children have been separated from their families at the US border with Mexico after a judge's order last year "that the practice be sharply curtailed."

Marie-Ève Clément, Annie Bérubé, Mélissa Goulet & Sonia Hélie - Child Indicators Research,

This study was conducted to address some of the gaps in the current literature by identifying, in a more comprehensive manner, family profiles and service referrals in cases of child neglect investigated and substantiated by Child Protection Services (CPS).

Marie-Ève Clément, Annie Bérubé, Mélissa Goulet, Sonia Hélie - Child Indicators Research,

This study was conducted to address some of the gaps in the current literature by identifying, in a more comprehensive manner, family profiles and service referrals in cases of child neglect investigated and substantiated by Child Protection Services (CPS) in Quebec.

Brittany P. Mihalec‐Adkins & Morgan E. Cooley - Child & Family Social Work,

The goals of the present study were (a) to explore relationships amongst various child‐level correlates of school engagement and problem behaviors—namely, self‐esteem and social skills—and (b) to respectively investigate the protective potential of self‐esteem and social skills in the association between school engagement and behavior problems that threaten educational trajectories.

Laura Orlando, Susan Barkan, Kathryn Brennan - Children and Youth Services Review,

In this paper, the authors describe a process used to inform the development of a parenting intervention that would have high relevance to child welfare involved parents and could then work towards proving its effectiveness.

Mary I. Armstrong, Melissa Hope Johnson, John Robst, Areana Cruz, Monica Landers, Amy Vargo - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice,

This article compares and contrasts the services needed by families in child welfare systems with the services that families receive.

Shamra Boel-Studt, Jonathan C. Huefner, Hui Huang - Children and Youth Services Review,

The aim of this article is to offer a working blue print to guide the adaptation of quality initiatives aimed at transforming residential care in other child welfare organizations or jurisdictions while taking into consideration the fit of such initiatives within the service environment and the complexities of system-wide change.

Irene Salvo Agoglia, Diana Marre - Child & Family Social Work,

In this article, the authors present some results from the first qualitative study that explores the experiences of some Chilean adults who were adopted and searched for their origins in Chile through the National Service of Minor's Search for Origins Program.

Julianna Finelli & Charles H. Zeanah - An International Perspective on Disasters and Children's Mental Health,

This paper focuses on the complicated experiences faced by Katrina-exposed children and their families and reviews follow-up research on Katrina’s effects on children and their caregivers in both New Orleans, Louisiana, and the coastal Mississippi area.

Kari Hong - WBUR,

In this opinion piece for WBUR, Kari Hong - an assistant professor at Boston College Law School and expert in immigration law, immigration consequences of criminal convictions, criminal law and family law - discusses the use of detention facilities for children at the US border with Mexico despite the "established science that children are best cared for by families, whether their own, adopted or in foster care."