Americas

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List of Organisations

The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church,

The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church has issued a statement condemning the US policy of separating children from their parents as they enter the United States from Mexico.

Vivek S. Sankaran - University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository,

This paper describes the experiences of parents with child welfare cases in family court. The paper argues the need to build a court process to support parents and keep families together.

Associated Press,

The United Nations human rights office has called on the United States to "immediately halt" its current policy of separating parents and children who enter into the country without authorization.

Association of Family and Conciliation Courts,

This conference will focus on addressing the role of trauma in family courts and the judicial system and advancing the system’s response to the needs of families. It will be held in Washington, DC on 6-9 June 2018.

International Social Service-USA (ISS-USA), MK Family Law, The George Washington University School of Law, and Leslie Ellen Shear, Attorney and Counselor at Law,

This day-long conference, Cross-Border Family Mediation: Dispute Resolution for International Families In Your Community, will be held on June 5, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

Yanfeng Xu, Charlotte Lyn Bright - Children and Youth Services Review,

The purpose of this systematic review is to compare the associations of kinship care and non-kinship care with children's mental health and to examine the factors associated with children's mental health in kinship care and non-kinship foster care.

Anna E. Austin, Jared W. Parrish, Meghan E. Shanahan - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study examined preconception and prenatal predictors of time to first child protective services (CPS) contact among Alaska children.

Save the Children & Fundasil,

El objetivo de este estudio es visibilizar la problemática de la niñez y adolescencia víctima de violencia generalizada en condición de desplazamiento interno en El Salvador.

Colleen E. Bennet, M. Katherine Henry, Joanne N. Wood - Foster Care,

This paper reviews the development, behavioral, and mental health needs of children in foster care.

Omama Altaleb - Islamic Horizons,

This cover story from the Islamic Society of North America's Islamic Horizons publication highlights the need for more Muslim foster families in the US.