Child Neglect in Arizona: Prevalence of neglect types reported to Arizona’s Department of Child Safety for calendar years 2013-2015

Erica Quintana - Morrison Institute Child Welfare Leadership Advisory Board

The objective of this project was to review a sample of reports made to Arizona's Department of Child Safety (DCS) with neglect allegations and identify the types of neglect present in the hotline narrative and investigation narrative. 

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Arizona's foster care boards don't look like their communities. Here's why that matters

Maria Polletta - The Republic | azcentral.com

This report describes the disproportionality of children from racial and ethnic minorities in the foster care system in Arizona and how the overwhelmingly white, Anglo-American makeup of the Foster Care Review Boards leads to cultural bias in ths sytem and can perpetuate this problem.

The Family Support Service Practical Guide: A set of Methodological Guidelines for the Regional Social Assistance Structures

Tatiana Dnestrean, Svetlana Rîjicova, & Stela Grigoraș - Partnerships for Every Child, Advancing Partners and Communities

This guide represents a methodological support that describes the procedures for the provision, organization and operation of the Family Support Service.

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Case Management Practical Guide: A set of Methodological Guidelines for the Regional Social Assistance Structures

Svetlana Rîjicova & Stela Grigoraș - Partnerships for Every Child, Government of the Republic of Moldova & Advancing Partners and Communities

This guide is designed for social workers employed in the social services addressed to families and children in Moldova. In this version, the case management methodology focuses on family strengthening and the development of family’s competences, with the ultimate aim of achieving every child’s well-being. 

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Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Following up on a 2014 report of the same name, this report (Race for Results) describes the disproportionate barriers facing children of immigrant families in the US, and it recommends strategies that policy, community and civic leaders can use to guide their decisions so that all our children have a fair chance to thrive. 

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Unwanted Youth: Unaccompanied Minors and Family Detention in the United States

Suzan Song - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The goals of this study are as follows: 1) to gain a better understanding of the impact of geopolitical violence on youth and families; 2) to describe the mental health dimensions of the traumas of separation from family, reunification with estranged family, flight from one’s home country to the United States, and the needs in the United States; and 3) to learn how to use clinical and family therapy clinical techniques in a coordinated and interdisciplinary system of care.

Determinants of Effective Utilization of Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children by Caregivers in Kenya: A Case of Tigania West, Meru County

Stephen Njenga Mwangi & Dr. Anne Ndiritu - International Academic Journal of Information Sciences and Project Management

The purpose of the study was to investigate the determinants of the effective utilization of cash transfer for orphans and vulnerable children by caregivers in Tigania West SubCounty which has 1320 beneficiaries in the programme. 

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