Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally - Creating a Family

Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally - Creating a Family

Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally Radio Show 0 What are the health, emotional, and developmental issues common to children...

The children left behind by domestic homicide

The children left behind by domestic homicide

The children left behind by domestic homicide The children left behind by domestic homicide When children lose a parent to domestic homicide, committed overwhelmingly by a male...

How local authorities can retain their social workers

How local authorities can retain their social workers

How can social workers thrive in local authority contexts? This question is at the heart of exclusive research conducted for Community Care by Dr Elizabeth Frost, associate...

What If We Gave Struggling Families as Much Support as Foster Parents? | The Tyee

What If We Gave Struggling Families as Much Support as Foster Parents? | The Tyee

When it comes to child welfare, social work experts and parents in B.C. say we’re investing in the wrong end of the system — pouring money into foster care instead of offering...

Two-thirds of child abuse survivors thrive as adults

Two-thirds of child abuse survivors thrive as adults

Nov. 22 -- Two in three survivors of childhood sexual abuse have good mental health, but a new study suggests that social isolation, chronic pain, substance abuse and depression...

School at centre of sex abuse inquiry employed five paedophiles

School at centre of sex abuse inquiry employed five paedophiles

A Bridlington school is set to be the focus of an on-going national inquiry into child sexual abuse. Between 2006 and 2010, five former members of staff at Headlands School in...

Parents, You Need to Talk to Your Kids About Suicide. Here’s How.

Parents, You Need to Talk to Your Kids About Suicide. Here’s How.

Share via Pinterest MicroStockHub / Getty Images As someone who struggled with suicidal ideation as a teen, I remember how it felt like a dirty little secret—and how little...

We Need to Help Relatives Navigate Their Child Welfare Options

We Need to Help Relatives Navigate Their Child Welfare Options

A new data project focusing on foster care capacity has illustrated a growing reality across the nation’s child welfare system: relatives are increasingly stepping up to provide...

Facts and Figures About Runaway and Homeless Youth

Facts and Figures About Runaway and Homeless Youth

Facts and Figures About Runaway and Homeless Youth March 25, 2019 Issue Brief Causes of running away and homelessness among young people are many and varied, as are potential...

Majority of childhood sex-abuse survivors achieve complete mental health

Majority of childhood sex-abuse survivors achieve complete mental health

Most research on child sexual-abuse survivors focuses on negative consequences such as depression and suicide. A new study instead examines factors associated with resilience...

10 Ways You Can Help Children in Foster Care Without Being a Foster Parent

10 Ways You Can Help Children in Foster Care Without Being a Foster Parent

Not everyone can be a foster parent.  I understand that.  It has been the hardest thing I have ever done, while at the same time, the most important and rewarding thing I have...

Expanded requirements could jeopardize child-abuse reporting immunity

Expanded requirements could jeopardize child-abuse reporting immunity

Good faith immunity protections would no longer apply to Illinois physicians who are mandated child abuse reporters, and instead of reporting child abuse when there is...