Understanding Child Maltreatment: Fact Sheet
This brief factsheet from the U.S. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the CDC provides an overview of child maltreatment.
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Promoting Positive Community Norms - A Supplement to CDC’s Essentials for Childhood
This guide serves as a supplement to the United States CDC guide “Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments.” It provides guidance on creating a context for increasing safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and families by promoting positive community norms.
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Child Maltreatment: Facts at a Glance
This brief factsheet from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control presents current data on child maltreatment in the United States.
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What We Know about the Effects of Foster Care
This article, published in the book ‘Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Foster Care: A Research Synthesis,’ provides an overview of the history of the foster care system in the United States and findings from multiple studies on the effects of foster care on children.
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Understanding Vulnerability: a Study on Situations that Affect Family Separation and the Lives of Children in and out of Family Care
This report presents analysis and key findings from a study aimed at fully understanding the situations of children in Indonesia that may lead to family separation.
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Situation Analysis of Child Poverty and Deprivation in Uganda
This report, commissioned by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development of Uganda and supported by UNICEF, presents findings from an analysis on child poverty in Uganda, undertaken by the Economic Policy Research Centre.
Prisoners’ Childhood and Family Backgrounds - Results from the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) Longitudinal Cohort Study of Prisoners
This report presents findings of a study on the childhood and family backgrounds of 1,435 participants who were newly incarcerated in 2005 and 2006 in the United Kingdom. The report has a special focus on the experiences of abuse and care placement in childhood.
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Fostering Success in Education: National Factsheet on the Educational Outcomes of Children in Foster Care
This report from the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education provides statistical and demographic data on the education of children in foster care in the United States and highlights promising programs around the country that promote positive educational outcomes for children in foster care.
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Enumerating Street Children
This report from Retrak provides information on how to best count and develop estimates of the number of street-connected children in a particular area.
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