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El Diálogo Interamericano y UNICEF han conformado una alianza orientada a fortalecer la construcción y la implementación de políticas integrales de la primera infancia basada en evidencia, en los países de la región. En esa línea, se convocó un Taller regional en Uruguay. Este documento presenta los principales elementos destacados y discutidos en la reunión y los aspectos en los cuales hay un mayor acuerdo entre los expertos participantes del taller.
This guide summarizes findings from relevant literature on what helps emerging adults (including youth transitioning from foster care) succeed, describes examples of how US communities are innovating to meet those needs, and shares key takeaways from interviews with emerging adults.
In this story for the March 2020 issue of the Atlantic, David Brooks writes about U.S. society's "shift from bigger and interconnected extended families to smaller and detached nuclear families" and the "devastation it has wrought," including how it "ultimately led to a familial system that liberates the rich and ravages the working-class and the poor."
The primary aim of this chapter is to outline the significance of trauma in the lives of parents involved in the child protection system who are sent for forensic psychological evaluations.
This study describes the community-based needs of parents with psychiatric disabilities who experienced legal challenges to their parenting rights.
This resource provides specific guidance to parents on how to talk to children about, and help them understand, the COVID-19 crisis.
This comic is based on a radio story that NPR education reporter Cory Turner did. He asked some experts what kids might want to know about the new coronavirus discovered in China.
This study presents the results of research carried out on adolescents and emerging adults adopted both in Italy and in Argentina. The main aim is to investigate the role and the associations of satisfaction with life, self-concept clarity, and parental attachment on educational identity.
The present study investigated the relationship of current foster parents’ communication with his/her foster child on foster parents’ perceptions of relational and child well-being.
In this pilot study, sixteen youth between ages 18 and 20 participated in semi-structured interviews, support mapping, and resiliency measurements to gather the experiences of the transition from foster care.