Americas

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Priscila Rodríguez, Javier Aceves, Laurie Ahern, Lisbet Brizuela, Diane Jacobstein, John Heffernan, Ivonne Millán, Eric Rosenthal - Disability Rights International,

Disability Rights International (DRI) llevó a cabo dos investigaciones en Baja California, México –la primera en noviembre de 2018 y la segunda en febrero de 2019, visitando a cuatro instituciones privadas en las que se encuentran niñas, niños, adolescentes y personas –incluidas personas migrantes– con discapacidad. Este informe presenta los resultos de esta investigación.

Priscila Rodríguez, Javier Aceves, Laurie Ahern, Lisbet Brizuela, Diane Jacobstein, John Heffernan, Ivonne Millán, Eric Rosenthal - Disability Rights International,

Disability Rights International (DRI) carried out two investigation trips to Baja California, Mexico, in November 2018 and February 2019, visiting four residential, private institutions for children and adults – including migrants - with disabilities. This report presents the findings from these investigations.

Josh Leopold & Amanda Gold - Urban Institute,

This study evaluated the effectiveness of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families funded Partnerships to Demonstrate the Effectiveness of Supportive Housing for Families in the Child Welfare System, a five-year, $25 million demonstration that provided supportive housing to families in the child welfare system, in five sites. This report summarizes the results of the cost study, which estimates the costs of the housing and services offered in the demonstration and any savings, or additional costs, resulting from the demonstration’s effects on families’ use of homeless programs and child welfare services.

Michael Pergamit, Mary Cunningham, Devlin Hanson, Alexandra Stanczyk - The Urban Institute,

This report provides findings from the Urban Institute's impact analysis of a program that provided supportive housing to families in the child welfare system in the US.

El Ministerio de Justicia y Seguridad Pública y Dirección General de Estadística y Censos,

El siguiente resumen resalta los hallazgos principales de la Encuesta de Violencia contra Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes (EVCNNA), El Salvador 2017.

Together for Girls y Gobierno de la República de Honduras,

Esta página de datos presente un resumen de los datos encontrados en la Encuesta de Violencia Contra los Niños, Niñas y Adolscentes de Honduras.

Together for Girls & Government of Honduras,

This fact sheet presents an overview of the data found in Honduras’s Violence Against Children Survey.

Alicia Boatswain-Kyte - Université de Montréal,

This three-paper dissertation examines the overrepresentation of Black children reported to child protection services in Canada.

Ida Bruheim Jensen, Ingunn T. Ellingsen, Ingunn Studsrød, Manuela Garcia Quiroga - Journal of Comparative Social Work,

This study explores understandings of children and childhood among 21 social workers from five child protection services in Chile.

Stan Rosenberg - Boston Globe,

This opinion piece from the Boston Globe, written by a former foster youth, Stan Rosenberg, describes the ways in which the child welfare system in the US state of Massachusetts often fails foster children.