Family Reunification

Kathleen Stevenson - Nursing Management of Pediatric Disaster

Reunification of families after a large disaster can be a major concern if strategies to mitigate the issues have not been incorporated into local, regional, state, tribal, and federal planning for such an event.

Key Messages and Guidance to Prevent and Respond to COVID-19

Changing the Way We Care

This document features key messages including critical information about keeping children safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The messages are designed for use by country child protection actors, such as public child protection officers, directors of residential care facilities and government and civil society actors that work with vulnerable children and families.

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The longitudinal associations among perceived discrimination, social initiative, and depressive symptoms in Chinese rural left-behind adolescents

Jingxin Zhao, Qian Wang, Xiangjuan Xue - Journal of Adolescence

The current study used a longitudinal design to explore how perceived discrimination is associated with psychosocial functioning (i.e., depressive symptoms and social initiative) over time in Chinese rural left-behind adolescents.

Effects of the ‘Circle of Security’ Group Parenting Program (COS-P) With Foster Carers: An Observational Study

Govind Krishnamoorthy, Paula Hessing, Christel Middeldorp, William Bor - Children and Youth Services Review

This article presents a multi-site evaluation of a group delivery of the eight-week Circle of Security-Parent DVD program (COS-P) program to foster carers of 6-12 year-old children in an urban community as facilitated by community-based providers from a specialist child and youth mental health services.

Systematic literature review of foster and adoptive caregiver factors for increasing placement stability and permanency

Lori A. Vanderwill, Amy M. Salazar, Garrett Jenkins, Jessica De Larwelle, Amanda K. McMahon, Angelique Day, and Kevin Haggerty - Journal of Public Child Welfare

This study is a systematic review of the scholarly literature to better understand caregiver-related factors (e.g., characteristics, proficiencies) that contribute to permanency and placement stability, in order to provide a stronger foundation for developing and improving caregiver recruitment and training procedures.