Americas

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Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, Lenore M. McWey, Jeffery Waid - Children and Youth Services Review,

With a sample of 246 youth from a non-profit organization's summer camp program, Camp To Belong, this study examined the association between a warm sibling relationship and resilience for youth in foster care. 

Shannon Senefeld - Huffington Post,

In this piece for the Huffington Post, Dr. Shannon Senefeld, Senior Vice President for Overseas Operations at Catholic Relief Services, makes a case explaining why donors (particularly those from the U.S.) should not donate their money to orphanages. 

Rebeca Garcia Gil - Maryland Journal of International Law,

This Note focuses on an Advisory Opinion issued by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (“the Court”) regarding the rights and guarantees of migrant children and their need for international protection.

Yukon Health and Social Services,

The Government of Yukon, Canada is introducing a new three-year pilot project to reunite families. 

Sharon G. Portwood, Suzanne A.Boyd, Ellissa Brooks Nelson, Tamera B. Murdock, Jessica Hamilton, Angela D.Miller - Children and Youth Services Review,

Working collaboratively with two state associations and their member (nonprofit) agencies providing out-of-home care to children and youth, University researchers conducted a multi-site project to examine whether there were any differences in individual child-level outcomes between children placed in residential group care and those placed in foster. 

BBC News,

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on behalf of the government of Canada, has offered a formal apology for the use of residential schools for indigenous children in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to this article from the BBC.

Angelique Day, Tamarie Willis, Lori Vanderwill, Stella Resko, Debra Patterson, Kris Henneman, Sue Cohick - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study implemented a systematic review process to identify the personal characteristics, skills and abilities of successful resource families that maximize foster and adoptive parent retention and maximize placement permanency of teens placed in out of home care.

Joy Gabrielli, Yo Jackson, Lindsay Huffhines, Katie Stone - Child Maltreatment,

This study tested relations among maltreatment history, coping behavior, and substance use behavior in youth residing in foster care.

Jacquelyn K. Mallette, Ted G. Futris, David G. Schramm - Child & Family Social Work,

Guided by the Cultural Competence Attainment Model, the purpose of this study is to examine how socio‐demographic and work characteristics are associated with variations in child welfare professionals' (CWPs) attitudes about father involvement and family instability and how these attitudes are linked with whether they view relationship and marriage education as relevant to their efforts to support families.

Lynne McCormack & Gemma L. Issaakidis - Traumatology,

This phenomenological study explored the “lived” experience of OoHC from the perspective of 4 adult care leavers reflecting on their childhood.