The Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies: Reducing disparities through indigenous social work education

Wendy Haight, Cary Waubanascum, David Glesener, Priscilla Day, Brenda Bussey, Karen Nichols - Children and Youth Services Review

This research addresses one of the most pressing and controversial issues facing child welfare policymakers and practitioners today: the dramatic overrepresentation of Indigenous families in North American public child welfare systems. The article presents a successful model of inclusive education: the Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies (the Center) at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, School of Social Work.

Vulnerability Mitigation through the Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries

Kingsley Chigbu - African Journal of Social Work

This paper analyzes the United States of America (U.S). House Resolution 1409 (H.R.1409) also referred to as the “Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2005 (AOVC).”

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Psychological practice with unaccompanied immigrant minors: Clinical and legal considerations.

NeMoyer, A., Rodriguez, T., & Alvarez, K. - Translational Issues in Psychological Science

This article provides an overview of typical experiences for unaccompanied immigrant minors (UIMs), discusses the accompanying legal and clinical implications, and offers recommendations for psychological practice at the level of providers, training programs, and child-serving systems.

RISE Up: Facilitating Frontline Responder Collaboration on Co-Occurring Child Welfare and Intimate Partner Violence Cases

Lisa Langenderfer-Magruder, Cassandra Olson, Dina J. Wilke, Lucas Alven - Journal of Interpersonal Violence

This study explores the qualitative responses of child welfare workers in Florida to understand their collaboration experiences, focusing specifically on their perceptions of facilitative factors of collaboration with Intimate partner violence (IPV) services.

A structural path to job satisfaction, burnout, and intent to leave among child protection workers: A South Korean study

Youngsoon Chung & Hyekyung Choo - Children and Youth Services Review

This study aimed to identify the interrelationships of risk and protective factors, job satisfaction and burnout to child protection workers' intent to leave, the relative impact between job satisfaction and burnout on intent to leave, and their mediating roles for the risk and protective factors.

‘This is our story’: Children and young people on criminalisation in residential care: Ending the criminalisation of children in residential care. Briefing four.

The Howard League for Penal Reform

This briefing, part of a series from the Howard Leauge, tells the anonymised stories of four children and young people who have been criminalised in residential care in their own words.

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