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ISS-USA's 6th Annual Fall Conference, co-hosted by the University of Maryland School of Social Work, will focus on the legal and human rights of children separated from their biological families across international borders.
ISS-USA will be hosting a conference on Thursday, October 13th in Baltimore, MD. This conference, The Ties That Bind: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Children Separated From Their Families Across International Borders, will focus on the legal and human rights of children separated from their biological families across international borders.
This study examines whether requiring parents to pay child support to offset the costs of foster care delays children's permanent placement, whether through reunification with a parent, adoption, or guardianship.
According to this report from The Huffington Post, children already at risk for human trafficking face greater risk due to the Hurricane Matthew.
The Center for the Human Rights of Children and MALA will host a screening of "What Tomorrow Brings", a powerful film that goes inside the very first girls’ school in one small Afghan village. This event is open to the public. Students, faculty, and community members are invited to honor the UN's International Day of the Girl, which aims to ensure a world free of discrimination for young women and girls.
The webinar will focus on a comprehensive approach to strengthening supervisory practice throughout Indiana’s Department of Child Services (DCS). The session will focus on the development and refinement of a range of inter-connected supervisory initiatives in Indiana, including:
This article is a discussion of the state of foster care for children with disabilities. This study explores three areas related to foster care outcomes: 1) previous disrupted or dissolved adoptions among youth with and without intellectual disabilities; 2) demographic or disability related disparities of youth with intellectual disabilities who were and were not discharged from care; and 3) foster care outcomes of youth with and without intellectual disabilities.
This position provides child protection technical leadership in the design and development of programs for children in countries in conflict, crisis, post-conflict and post-crisis settings across the world, with a specific focus on research, monitoring and evaluation for child protection.
This study examines the relationship between different areas of family need and the utilization of home-based, post-investigation services (HBPS) following a child protective services (CPS) investigation.