Americas

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Margaret H. Lloyd Sieger - Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services,

This study analyzed 10 years of federal child welfare data to understand the effect of foster care placement, provider, and support factors for children in foster care due to parental substance use disorder.

Maria X. Sanmartin, Mir M. Ali, Angélica Meinhofer - Psychiatric Services,

This study used the 2000–2017 waves of the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting Systems. The authors identified foster care entries among children removed from their homes because of parental drug use (PDU) and calculated the number of entries for each year. They also identified foster care discharges achieved through parental reunification among children removed from their homes each year.

Center for the Study of Social Policy,

This webinar shares the partnership that CSSP and Family Voices undertook to create and implement a process for engaging families in the Pediatrics Supporting Parents (PSP) national initiative to promote the social and emotional development (SED) of young children.

Barbara Fallon, Rachael Lefebvre, Joanne Filippelli, Nicolette Joh-Carnella, Nico Trocmé, Jessica Carradine, John Fluke - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This paper presents key findings from the 2018 cycle of the OIS (OIS-2018) and highlights select policy and practice implications of these findings.

Suzanne Clulow, Nikoleta Dimitrouka, Iván Zamora Zapata - Journal of Children's Services,

The purpose of this paper is to share anecdotally how the pandemic is affecting children, families and some of the frontline local services that support them across three continents.

Veronnie F. Jones, Elaine E. Schulte, Douglas Waite - Pediatrics,

This paper explores how pediatricians can support families who care for children and adolescents who are fostered and adopted while attending to children’s medical needs and helping each child attain their developmental potential.

Travonne Edwards, Amina Hussain, Christa Sato, Jason King, Michael Saini, Bryn King - Social Science Protocols,

This systemic scoping review will provide a succinct synthesis of the current literature on Black disproportionality and disparity in child welfare.

Meaghan Thumath, David Humphreys, Jane Barlow, Putu Duff, Melissa Braschel, Brittany Bingham, Sophie Pierre, Kate Shannon - International Journal of Drug Policy,

This study aims to examine the prevalence of overdose and the association with child removal in a cohort of marginalised women.

Judy Havlicek - Children and Youth Services Review,

This systematic review synthesizes information about the relationships aging out foster youth have with their birth or stepparents after legally mandated separations in foster care.

Judy Havlicek - Children and Youth Services Review,

This systematic review synthesizes information about the relationships aging out foster youth have with their birth or stepparents after legally mandated separations in foster care.