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The MenCare Campaign in collaboration with the Clinton Foundation’s No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project and HeForShe: UN Women Solidarity Movement for Gender Equality, is hosting a launch of the world’s first-ever report on the State of the World’s Fathers – providing a global view of the state of men’s contribution to parenting and caregiving around the world.
From June 8-12, 2015, Buckner Guatemala, with support from the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) and the Guatemalan Court System, provided a series of two-day training sessions to multi-disciplinary teams from the court system. The two sessions of the two-day training included more than 80 professionals, and provided an opportunity to highlight the important role of multi-disciplinary teams (i.e., social workers, psychologists and pedagogues) within the Guatemalan child protection system in general and the court system specifically.
The Faith to Action Initiative (F2A) is seeking a part-time Project Consultant.
This study replicated and extended previous research which identified the small proportion of highly productive foster parents who provide a disproportionate amount of care in the United States. This study used a nationally representative sample of foster families (N = 876) with a focus on willingness to foster, and actually fostering, children with special needs.
This article describes the experiences of Inuit children from Greenland who were removed from their families and taken to Denmark in the 1950s in an effort by the Danish government to re-educate them as “Little Danes” and to “modernize” Greenland.
This study reports on results of a national survey conducted in the United States about the attitudes, perceptions, and utilization of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in residential care settings.
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
This qualitative study focused on disadvantaged women in the US child welfare system who have lost their parental rights.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has published a report concluding that the removal of aboriginal Canadian children from their families, to be placed in residential schools, amounts to cultural genocide.
In this book, Laury Oaks discusses “Baby safe haven” laws in the United States and the attitudes towards women who use baby safe havens.