Family Reunification between Static EU Citizens and Third Country Nationals: A Practical Way to Help Families Caught in the Current Immigration Crisis

Chiara Berneri - European Journal of Migration and Law

The scope of this work is to link family reunification between static EU citizens and third country nationals to the current European immigration background in order to appreciate it as a way to channel safe immigration.

Measurement Based Care in Child Welfare-Involved Children and Youth: Reliability and Validity of the PSC-17

Jedediah H. Jacobson, Michael D. Pullmann, Elizabeth M. Parker, Suzanne E. U. Kerns - Child Psychiatry & Human Development

This study evaluates whether the psychometric properties of the Pediatric Symptoms Checklist-17 (PSC-17), a common behavioral health measure typically used as a dichotomous screening tool for mental health needs, support its use as a continuous measure for tracking behavioral health over time.

A Call for Culturally-Relevant Interventions to Address Child Abuse and Neglect in American Indian Communities

Apryl Joe, Cora McElwain, Kyla Woodard, Stephen Bell - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

This paper explores the literature of the existing interventions that are specifically used with American Indian families affected by child abuse and neglect.

Developing Sustainable Repatriation and Reintegration Programs for Children and Families Separated by Borders

Elaine Weisman & Fecility Sackville Northcott - International Social Service-USA & the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare

This practice brief provides recommendations about best practices for ensuring that children and/or their caregivers facing deportation are provided with necessary pre-departure and reintegration services to support safe and sustainable return.

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Niños y niñas en situación de migración: De la protección a una solución sostenible de calidad Guía práctica

Servicio Social Internacional

El manual es tanto una hoja de ruta para los responsables de la formulación de políticas como una guía diaria para los profesionales que trabajan con niños y niñas en situación de migración: desde los trabajadores humanitarios y el personal de fronteras hasta los trabajadores sociales responsables de la creación de planes individualizados que pongan a los niños y niñas primero.

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Good professional practices for promoting positive parenting and child participation in reunification processes

Ainoa Mateos Inchaurrondo, Nuria Fuentes‐Peláez, Crescencia Pastor Vicente, Anna Mundet Bolós - Child & Family Social Work

The quantitative study presented here contributes knowledge regarding the attitude of professionals towards positive parenting and child participation in professional support of families that are under temporary protection, with the goal of reunification.

Utilising genetically-informed research designs to better understand family processes and child development: implications for adoption and foster-care focused interventions

Sellers, Ruth, Smith, A F, Leve, L D, Nixon, E, Cane, T, Cassell, J A and Harold, G T - Adoption and Fostering

This paper summarises how genetically-informed research designs can help disentangle genetic from environmental processes underlying psychopathology outcomes for children, and how this evidence can provide improved insights into the development of more effective preventative intervention targets for adoption and foster-care families.

Solos Contra el Afuera

Doncel

En este documento se presentan los principales resultados de una investigación se propuso conocer las dinámicas y trayectorias de transición del sistema de cuidados alternativos a la autonomía de los y las jóvenes que vivieron en instituciones de cuidado residencial de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Racial disparities in the proportion of needed services maltreated children received

Tyrone C. Cheng, Celia C. Lo - Children and Youth Services Review

This secondary analysis of data describing 1186 maltreated children, drawn from the US National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II, examined racial disparities in their access to and receipt of needed services and in their caseworkers' case planning and engagement with caregivers.

Effect of Foster Care Intervention on Trajectories of General and Specific Psychopathology Among Children With Histories of Institutional Rearing

Mark Wade, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah, Charles A. Nelson - JAMA Psychiatry

The aim of this study was to examine trajectories of latent psychopathology factors—general (P), internalizing (INT), and externalizing (EXT)—among children reared in institutions and to evaluate whether randomization to foster care is associated with reductions in psychopathology from middle childhood through adolescence.

Stories from journeys to the edge of care: Challenges for children and family services

Barry Percy-Smith & Jane Dalrymple - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper is rooted in research commissioned by one local authority that used an innovative visual ‘river of experience’ co- production approach to understand better the experiences of children and families on their journeys to the edge of care and to inform how statutory services might respond ‘better’, and possibly earlier, to prevent children being taken into care.

Assessing the effects of a combined economic and social intervention in Uganda on child protection and economic outcomes

E. Namey, S. Zissette, D. Onena, W. Okello, L. Laumann - ASPIRES

This presentation, delivered at the ISPCAN Conference in September 2018, highlights the preliminary findings from the ASPIRES Family Care Projects as regards the effects of a combined economic and social intervention on child protection and economic outcomes.

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Nonadult Supervision of Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Results from 61 National Population-Based Surveys

Mónica Ruiz-Casares, José Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz, René Iwo and Youssef Oulhote - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Nationally representative, population-based data from rounds four and five of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and four to eight of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 61 low- and middle-income countries were used to estimate prevalence and socio-economic factors associated with leaving children under five years old home alone or under the care of another child younger than 10 years of age.