The 21st ISPCAN Congress, entitled “Protecting our Children, Protecting our Future,” will be held in Calgary, Canada 28-31 August, 2016.

The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) will host the ISPCAN Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect in Calgary, Canada. The Congress will be held 28-31 August 2016 at the TELUS Convention Center, Calgary. It will be co-hosted with the University of Calgary. ISPCAN, Dr Jackie Sieppert, Faculty of Social Work Dean and Mark Hattori, Alberta Human Services Assistant Deputy Minister of Child and Family Services will co-chair the event.

This study investigates the characteristics of men who act as primary caregivers of maltreated children. 

The Child Abuse Prevention Center is seeking a new Director of Advancement to manage all aspects of fund development. 

This article by Marcus Roberts discusses how and why intercountry adoptions have dropped so dramatically in the recent years. 

This article discusses how children in Minneapolis are placed in juvenile detention facilities for lack of a better place to put them.  According to the article, children who are not charged with any crime account for one-fifth of juvenile detention center population.  

This podcast episode features the Miami CARES project. Funded through a Children's Bureau grant, the Miami CARES project brings more than 10 government and community agencies within Miami-Dade (FL) County together to forge a collaborative, systemic approach to identifying minors who are, or are at risk of becoming, victims of human trafficking.

This self-assessment and planning tool is intended for nonprofits and schools working with families to provide services that more effectively reach and engage parents in fostering their children's development. 

Este informe, presenta los resultados de ese estudio, examina las condiciones en que se encuentran los niños y los adolescentes con discapacidad en relación con el ejercicio de sus derechos, y propone algunas líneas de acción estratégica para mejorar las políticas y las prácticas en dirección a la garantía y la restitución del derecho de todos los niños, las niñas y los adolescentes a crecer en un ámbito familiar y comunitario, y sin discriminación. 

This study investigated whether there is an association between family immigrant status and iron stores and evaluated whether or not there were any known dietary, environmental or biological determinants of low iron status that influenced this relationship.