Americas

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Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab - GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy ,

This practice brief provides an overview of critical self-reflection questions that can be used, in a variety of ways, for training purposes for professionals in the US who work with grandparents raising grandchildren.

Suzanne T. Sutphin - GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy,

This article describes a kinship navigator program for children and kin caregivers involved in Child Protective Services in-home treatment cases.

Deborah Sampson and Katherine Hertlein - GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy,

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the experiences of grandparents in the US and the challenges they face raising their grandchildren.

Kendra A. O'Hora and Megan L. Dolbin-Mac - GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy ,

To gain insight into how practitioners can best meet the needs of grandfamilies, 40 custodial grandmothers and their adolescent grandchildren were interviewed in this study.

Editors - GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy ,

This issue of GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy includes several articles related to kinship care in the United States.

RELAF, Save the Children, and UNICEF,

Esta evaluación rápida, conducida por RELAF in colaboración con Save the Children y UNICEF, revisa las políticas públicas y servicios desarrollados por instituciones gubernamentales y no-gubernamentales perteneciendo al "Sistema de Protección Integral" para hacer frente a las cuestiones problemáticas que afectan los niños migrantes y sus familias en el Triángulo del Norte (El Salvador, Guatemala, y Honduras) y México. 

Ministry of Health and Social Development, Department of Social Development, UNICEF,

The Interagency Child Protection Protocol aims to offer guidance and support on good practices for the identification, reporting, investigation, case management, and prosecution of child abuse cases in Anguilla.

Deborah Sampson and Katherine Hertlein - GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy,

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the experiences of grandparents in the US and the challenges they face raising their grandchildren.

Elizabeth Carlson, Anna Marie Gallagher - Journal on Migration and Human Security,

This paper provides an overview of the violence perpetrated by gangs and other criminal organizations in Mexico and Central America which compels many children to flee their communities. The paper also describes the US government’s obligations to protect unaccompanied children upon arrival, and good practices of other governments relating to the protection of child migrants and refugees.

Anne Jones University and Pajarita Charles - Journal of Family Strengths ,

This paper describes a study that examined the economic challenges faced by low-income, unmarried parents in the United States who participated in the Strong Couples - Strong Children (SC - SC) program, a federally funded initiative intended to help strengthen relationships of fragile families by providing relationship education programs.