Smart Practices for Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children from SGBV Through Access to Health and PSS in Last Mile Locations: Honduras

Evelyn Vallejo Salcedo - International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies

The objective of the mission was to gather data on Honduras as a case study to support the IFRC global study on smart practices for protecting unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) from sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) through health and psychosocial services in last mile locations.

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Receptive Vocabulary Development of Children Placed in Foster Care and Children Who Remained With Birth Parents After Involvement With Child Protective Services

Lindsay Zajac, K. Lee Raby, Mary Dozier - Child Maltreatment

This study examined whether children with Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement who were in foster care had more advanced receptive vocabulary than children with CPS involvement who resided with their birth parents.

From Pariahs to Partners: How Parents and their Allies Changed New York City's Child Welfare System

David Tobis

This book focuses on the lives of six mothers who had been pariahs and then became partners with child welfare commissioners, social workers, lawyers, foundation officers, and child welfare agency executives. It recounts how their courage and resilience brought about the most significant changes in the history of New York’s child welfare system.

Adoption Breakdown in Spain: A Survival and Age-Related Analysis

Carmen Paniagua, Jesús Palacios, Jesús M. Jiménez-Morago, Francisco Rivera - Research on Social Work Practice

The two goals of this article from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice are the analysis of the duration of adoptive placements ending in breakdown and the role of age at placement in the breakdown experience in Spain.

“We're giving you the sack” - Social Workers’ Perspectives of Intervening in Affluent Families When There are Concerns about Child Neglect

Claudia Bernard - The British Journal of Social Work

Using the findings from a qualitative study, this paper explores social workers’ experiences of intervening in affluent families in the UK when there are child protection concerns.