Americas

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Erin A. King - Children and Youth Services Review,

The objectives of this study include exploring the prevalence of three types of client-perpetrated violence (CPV) and the influence of each type of CPV on mental health outcomes of workers.

Mary Elizabeth Collins, Sarah Baldiga - Journal of Children's Services,

This paper aims to describe how a sense of normalcy for young people in foster care can be critical to their well-being.

Hana Yoo, Stefana Racorean, Victoria Barrows - Qualitative Social Work,

The current study seeks to address the lack of literature including voices of mental health clinicians regarding their work and clients in the child welfare system by exploring clinicians’ views on the issue of child maltreatment and CPS-involved parents’ parenting.

UNICEF,

The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct a comprehensive system-wide evaluation at national and subnational levels which will assess the existing structures and procedures established to provide care and protection for Jamaica’s children.

Angela E. Hoffman-Cooper - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper discusses how research related to youth with experience in foster care can be conducted in an emancipatory manner with researchers actively supporting the liberation of youth with experience in foster care through their scholarly contributions.

Rowena Fong and Georgina Petronella - Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System,

This chapter from the book Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System explores disproportionality and disparities of Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander in the child welfare system.

Dorothy Roberts - Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System,

The overrepresentation of black children in the foster care population represents massive state supervision and dissolution of families concentrated in their neighborhoods. This chapter from Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System addresses the social impact of this concentration of child welfare agency involvement on the residents who live in these neighborhoods.

Jessica Pryce and Anna Yelick - Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System,

This chapter from Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System explores the factors contributing to the disproportionate number of Black children and families in the U.S. child welfare system.

Kyndra C. Cleveland and Jodi A. Quas - Child Maltreatment,

The authors of this study examined legal understanding and attitudes among 201 parents involved in ongoing dependency cases in California and Florida via semi-structured, in-person interviews.

Teresa Toguchi Swartz,

Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster care agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of the U.S. foster care system.