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This presentation was given at Disability Rights International and the European Network on Independent Living's webinar on the right of all children to a family by Dr. Ruthie-Marie Beckwith. The presentation includes the statement on the importance of family-based care for children with disabilites issued by the US National Conference of State Legislatures and the TASH Resolution on Community Living. It outlines shifts in public policy in the US and the UK regarding the institutionalization of children with…
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This chapter from the book Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children critiques historical and contemporary child protection approaches that are viewed as replicating the colonialist practices of child removal and destruction of families/parenting and communities. Using Australia and Canada as examples, it focuses upon three different sources of the disadvantage and distress that Indigenous communities typically experience: the impacts of Colonisation; intergenerational trauma; and the ongoing social, economic, legal and…
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As the response to youth who are victims of sex and labor trafficking has become more comprehensive, there is an increased need to provide specialized programming for these youth within residential placement settings. Across the country child welfare programs and agencies providing services for youth at risk for sex and labor trafficking are adopting new strategies to meet the needs of these youth in a variety of settings. This study outlines the policies, practices, and programming that have been implemented across the US to provide specialized responses to exploited and…
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This chapter reviews demographic research focusing on the adoption of children. Included are the following topics: the construction of adoption and kinship structures; global adoption trends and comparisons; and global developments in GLBT adoptions. Summarized are historical changes in adoption generally and adoption trends following The Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. Discussed are data available for demographic analysis, Hague Convention Statistics, and the limitations of international…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile. body rubs Seatle near me.
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This article focuses on the “zero-tolerance” policy adopted in spring, 2018, in the USA. This immigration policy criminalized the undocumented or illegal entry of child migrants and their families on the southwestern U.S. border. Those affected were mostly from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The implementation of this policy resulted in the forced separation of children from their families and the violation of human rights of those detained in authorized facilities and foster care. The policy coincides with limited U.S. government case management of unaccompanied and…
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Purpose
This study investigated the relationship between familial residential school system (RSS) exposure and personal child welfare system (CWS) involvement among young people who use drugs (PWUD).
Methods
Data were obtained from two linked cohorts of PWUD in Vancouver, Canada, and restricted to Indigenous participants. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between three categories of familial RSS exposure (none, grandparent, and parent) and CWS involvement. A secondary analysis assessed the…
This report highlights more than 70 child welfare agencies across the United States that partnered with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s All Children - All Families project to improve the services they provide to the LGBTQ community, including children in foster care and prospective foster and adoptive parents. These organizations serve more than 350,000 clients annually in 23 states, and employ nearly 11,000 individuals.
The agencies featured in this report conducted an internal self-assessment, provided professional development to staff and implemented ACAF’s “…
African American children continue to be overrepresented in the population of children in out of home care and in the population of children waiting to be adopted in the nation’s child welfare system. In 2017, while African American children accounted for 14% of the U.S. child population, 100,607 or 23% of the 442,995 children in care were African American, as were 27,388 (22%) of the 123,437 children waiting to be adopted (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018). In addition, while 49% (28,868) of those adopted with public agency assistance were White, only 17% (10,332) were…
After a brief overview of adoption today, this paper discusses critical tasks facing adoptive parents of transracially adopted persons (TRAs), what we know about parents’ role and children’s outcomes. The paper concludes with suggestions for what parents can do to better meet the task of supporting healthy identity development.