Americas

This page contains documents and other resources related to children's care in the Americas. Browse resources by region, country, or category.

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Roos Julie Steens, Koen Hermans, Tine Van Regenmortel - Child & Family Social Work,

The authors of this article performed a multiple case study to gather information about barriers and facilitators in building a working alliance between social workers and families.

Jesse J. Helton, Jill C. Schreiber, Janet Wiley, Rachel Schweitzer - Child & Family Social Work,

The authors used a mixed-methods, cross-sectional design, focused on qualitative results to explore how foster parents in the US utilize daily routines in foster care.

Julie Treinen & Michele Schmidt - Children's Bureau,

This podcast gives listeners an overview of how Arizona Kinship Support Services implements the Family Group Conference (FGC) model.

Tracy Carpenter-Aeby, Victor G Aeby, Amy Cooper, Crystal Kellam and Lacy Salter - ACTA PSYCHOPATHOLOGICA,

The purpose of this systematic literature review is to determine the number of articles and provide a summary of the academic needs of youth in foster care, to explore the barriers those children and caregivers face within the educational system and to highlight to successful interventions. 

Laura Viviano - The Guardian ,

An American couple adopted their baby by posting an advertisement on Craigslist. 

BBC News,

The Canadian government has reached a major settlement with indigenous victims forcibly removed from their homes and placed in state care as children. 

Reuters in Ottowa - The Guardian,

Canada will pay up to C$750m ($598m) in compensation to thousands of aboriginals who were forcibly removed as children from their families decades ago, promising to end “a terrible legacy”.

Deborah J. Monahan, Katie Kietzmann, Carrie Jefferson Smith & Vernon L. Greene - Journal of Intergenerational Relationships ,

This article examines whether and how felt caregiver burden influences the reported propensity of caregivers to want to adopt the children in their care.

Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, Leslie L Roos, James Bolton, Marni Brownell, Nathan C Nickel, Dan Chateau - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,

This study investigated whether mothers experience changes to their health and social situation after having a child taken into care by child protection services, then compared these outcomes with those found in mothers whose children were not taken into care.

Christopher Teixeira and Matthew Boyas - MITRE Corporation,

This document explores the state of the use of predictive analytics in child welfare by conducting an environmental scan of child welfare agencies, academia, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit vendors in the United States.