Americas

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Canadian Press,

"Advocates for youth in government care are calling on the provinces and territories to continue supporting those who are aging out of the child welfare system and trying to make it on their own during the pandemic," says this article by the Canadian Press.

National Family Support Network,

This event will offer an introduction to the NEW version of the U.S. nationally-adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support.

Justin Jay Miller, Erlene Grise-Owens - Adoption & Fostering,

This study uses a retrospective pre/post design to measure the impact of the pandemic on foster carers’ self-care.

Svetlana Shpiegel, Tammi Fleming, Lisa Mishraky, Sheila VanWert, Blanca Goetze, Elizabeth M. Aparicio, Bryn King - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study examined the rates and correlates of first and repeat births in a national sample of females emancipating from foster care in the United States.

Jamie Jaramillo & Brianne H. Kothari - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal,

The current study used a resilience framework to describe youth experiences with their caseworkers, examine the association of youth–caseworker relationship quality with school engagement, and to examine the differential impact of youth–caseworker relationships on youth school engagement by level of youth risk (i.e. posttraumatic symptoms).

Justin Jay Miller, Erlene Grise-Owens - Adoption & Fostering,

This study uses a retrospective pre/post design to measure the impact of the pandemic on foster carers’ self-care.

Erica Ranzato, Chloe Austerberry, Sarah Jane Besser, Antonella Cirasola - Adoption & Fostering,

The present study seeks to examine the goals that carers who are looking after children with emotional and/or behavioural difficulties set at the start of an intervention, the Reflective Fostering Programme, designed to support them.

Supriya Sharma, Daphne Wong, John Schomberg, Chloe Knudsen-Robbins, David Gibbs, Carol Berkowitz, Theodore Heyming - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study was designed to explore whether the incidence of child maltreatment among patients presenting to a pediatric emergency department has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Nico Trocmé, Tonino Esposito & Elizabeth Fast - Journal of Public Child Welfare,

This study describes the challenges faced by a child protection agency and community organization who partnered to reduce the overrepresentation of Black children reported to the child protection agency through implementation of a parenting support program.

Greggory J. Cullen, Carolyn Yule, David Walters & William O’Grady - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal,

This article exploresthe extent to which general strain theory (GST) and self-control theory can explain the mental health outcomes of youth in-care.