Americas

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List of Organisations

Disability Rights International,

This report from Disability Rights International documents the human rights violations, exploitation, and trafficking of children with and without disabilities in Guatemala.

Glen Casel - Orlando Sentinel,

In this article, Glen Casel - CEO of Community Based Care of Central Florida - makes a connection between the current family separation crisis at the US border with Mexico and the family separations that occur in the US child welfare system.

The Capacity Building Center for States,

This event aims to develop agency capacity and programs that foster healthy work environments for child welfare professionals.

Sita Bridgemohan - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday,

According to this article from Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, the Children Authority in Tobago plans to regularize foster care and promote kinship care in the country.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network,

This webinar, from the U.S. National Child Traumatic Stress Network, as part of its Childhood Traumatic Grief e-learning series, focuses on helping providers, current caregivers, and others understand and recognize the effects of Traumatic Separation in immigrant children of different ages, understand immigrant children’s prior trauma experiences, and provide practical suggestions for how to support immigrant children who have been separated from parents and siblings.

Chantal Da Silva - Newsweek,

According to this article from Newsweek, children as young as one year old who have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico have been ordered to appear in immigration court alone.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, cientific Advisory Group, Early Childhood of the Bezos Family Foundation,

This statement, submitted on behalf of the Scientific Advisory Group, Early Childhood of the Bezos Family Foundation, has been released in light of the policy of family separation of immigrant families at the U.S. border with Mexico and outlines the harmful impacts of the toxic stress of family separation on children's brain development and physical wellbeing.

Children's Bureau,

This webinar series offers technical assistance to child welfare agencies in the US on how to use data to improve outcomes for children and families.

Ingunn Studsrød, Ingunn T. Ellingsen, Carolina Muñoz Guzmán and Sandra E. Mancinas Espinoza - Social Policy and Society,

This article presents findings from a cross-national study exploring how social workers in child welfare conceptualise ‘family’, and how they relate to ‘family’ in their practice.

Sarah Kinosian in Corral de Mulas - The Guardian,

This article from the Guardian describes the lasting impacts of family separation on one young girl from El Salvador, who immigrated to the US with her father and was then separated from him, even after reunification with her father.