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Child Protective Services: A guide for caseworkers 2018
Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers provides a comprehensive view of the child welfare process. This manual examines the roles and responsibilities of child protective services (CPS) workers, who are at the center of every community’s child
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Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Policy Case Studies Report
Throughout the world, countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) policies that address safer learning facilities, school disaster management, and risk reduction and resilience education. The following case studies do
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Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Policy Case Study: Developing school plans and performing drills in Los Angeles
With a high regional risk of earthquakes, fires, and school violence, Los Angeles developed and incorporated Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) into emergency planning, mandated regular earthquake and other emergency drills, and developed a S
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Building Viable and Resilient Systems for Health: Save the Children Department of Global Health Strategic Orientations 2017-2020
Save the Children US’ Department of Global Health (SCUS DGH) has identified Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) as one of its priority areas for 2017-2020, and a key contribution to advancing the goals of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Every Woman Every
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Children on the Move: A crisis in the Northern Triangle, Mexico and USA
In the past two years, there has been a considerable increase in the number of unaccompanied children and adolescents from the Northern Triangle who migrate to the USA, and in the number of migrant families with children, particularly young women with chi
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Broken Dreams: Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States
Broken Dreams: Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States shares the obstacles and dangers that children and adolescents face as they journey to the United States. UNICEF reports that in the first six months of 2016, almost 26,000
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Childhood and Migration in Central and North America: Causes, Policies, Practices and Challenges
This book analyzes the conditions for children and adolescents in Central and North America who are affected by migration. Every stage of the process is explored and analyzed, including their countries of origin, during transit, in destination countries,
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Unaccompanied Child Migration to the United States: The Tension between Protection and Prevention
This research report, published by the Migration Policy Institute and written by Marc R. Rosenblum, explains the shifting patterns of Central American migration between 2011 and 2014 while analysing the policy challenges that these increased flows placed
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Still at Risk: U.S. Children 10 Years After Hurricane Katrina
Ten years ago, in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc along the U.S. Gulf Coast, leaving 1,833 dead, driving more than 1 million people from their homes, and forcing more than 300,000 children to enroll in new schools around the country, sometime
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Children's Rights in the Digital Age: A download from children around the world
Undertaken with the aim of communicating children’s views at the Day of General Discussion on children’s rights in the digital age, which took place on 12 September 2014, this project was a joint effort between the Young and Well Cooperative Research Cent
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Beyond Quick Fixes: What will it really take to improve child welfare in America?
This is the second in a series of articles regarding the current status of child protection services in the United States and proposals to address its challenges. For decades, state and local agencies have struggled to provide the appropriate quality of r
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Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview
This report begins with an analysis of data on the recent surge in unaccompanied alien children (UAC) crossing the border. It then discusses current policy on their treatment, care, and custody according to US law. There are two laws and one settlement th