Americas

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Ellen Wulfhorst - Thomson Reuters Foundation,

This article from the Thomson Reuters Foundation tells the story of Amy Andrews and other young people in foster care who have been trafficked, or made vulnerable to trafficking.

RELAF y UNICEF,

Este Manual desarrolla de manera genérica el marco conceptual y los diferentes procesos que constituyen un programa de un programa de acogimiento familiar para niños, niñas y adolescentes, de forma que resulta aplicable y adaptable a todos los contextos legales-políticos-institucionales que conviven en México.

The purpose of this scholarly project was to create a guide for trauma-informed interventions for occupational therapists specifically to use with foster care children.

Esther Deblinger, Ph.D. Anthony P. Mannarino, Ph.D. Melissa K. Runyon, Ph.D. Elisabeth Pollio, Ph.D. Judith Cohen, M.D.,

This manual, supported by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) Grant, offers guidance on the implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with children in foster care and their families.

Holly Vo, John Luttrell, Peter Cooch, Heyman Oo, Eleana Coll, Amy Beck, Eleanor Chung - Pediatrics,

This paper evaluates a five-module curriculum for recently immigrated youth called FUERTE (Family Reunification and Resiliency Training).

U.S. Children's Bureau,

This synthesis from the U.S. Children's Bureau summarizes the work and findings of a cluster of demonstration projects aimed at developing replicable models of systemic change and evidence-based models for placing children and youth with families who could provide permanent family connections.

Jackson de Carvalho & Darron Garner - Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Research ,

This research study proposes to explore aggregate of factors responsible for the academic struggles of foster care youth.

Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, Marni Brownell, Deepa Singal, Nathan Nickel, Leslie L. Roos - Pediatrics,

This study was conducted to determine if adolescent mothers who were in the care of child protection services (CPS) when they gave birth to their first child are more likely to have that child taken into CPS care before the child’s second birthday than adolescent mothers who were not in the care of CPS.

The Child and Youth Care Association of British Columbia,

The Child and Youth Care Association of British Columbia, Canada is hosting the 20th National and 12th Triennial International Child and Youth Care Conference in Vancouver, Canada 1-4 May 2018.

Susan Yoon, Sheila Barnhart, Jamie Cage - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The primary aim of the current study was to examine the longitudinal effects of ongoing physical abuse on the co-development of externalizing behavior problems and posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms among child welfare-involved adolescents.