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Journal of Family Strengths
ISSN 2168-670X · Children at Risk Institute · 368 artikel di indeks
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What is Missing in the Child Welfare System? Mandating Trauma Informed Training for Child Welfare Staff and Foster Parents
Training of foster parents and child welfare staff is crucial for establishing a trauma-informed child welfare sector. Training enhances the ability of foster parents to provide nurturing care and eliminate the re-traumatization of this marginalized population. However, there are many barriers…
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Uniqueness of Parent Advocates: The Power of Lived Experience
Abstract This study highlighted the unique elements of the role played by parent advocates (PAs) with lived child welfare experience in supporting families affected by the child welfare system. These elements set PAs apart from other professionals and included non-professionalized peer support…
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The State of Divorce Education in the United States
This review provides a snapshot of divorce education in the United States with the goal of informing policy makers, judges and court administrators, and developers of divorce education programs on current requirements. Divorce education is frequently mandated to help divorcing parents understand…
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An examination of adversity and the unique mental health needs of Black crossover immigrant and refugee youth (IRY)
Over 500,000 youths become involved with the Juvenile Justice System in the U.S. annually. More than half have experienced maltreatment resulting in child welfare system contact, a co-occurrence described as dual system involvement. Immigrant and refugee youth (IRY) are numbered among Black young…
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“If I knew what was going on with me, then I probably wouldn’t feel so sad or scared”: A CBPR Study Addressing Health Disparities for Black Pregnant Women
Maternal mortality rates for women identifying as Black are significantly higher than rates for women identifying as Hispanic or White women. The purpose of this community-based participatory research (CBPR) study was to enhance racial equity for Black women who are pregnant. We recruited 20 Black…
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Overrepresented and Under Discussed: From Conceptual Analysis to Practical Implications for Crossover among Black Girls
Crossover youth are young people who have experiences of maltreatment and exhibit delinquency, which may or may not come to the formal attention of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Black youth are overrepresented among the crossover youth population, and evidence suggests that Black…
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The Need for Fathers as Role Models to Aid Family and Social Cohesion in Resource-Constrained Contexts
The impact of parents on their children, especially in the developmental years, must not be undermined. Each parent influences a child separately and in different ways, which may have long-lasting effects on adulthood. Paternal involvement in children’s lives plays a different but crucial role that…
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Unaccompanied Minors at the Border: Opinions of Latino Adults
Abstract: Since the summer of 2014, U.S. citizens have become increasingly aware of a new wave of border crossers, children who are making the journey alone, without a parent or guardian, and who left their home countries to find their way to the U.S. These children became known by many names on…
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Migrant Protection Protocols: An Examination of its Consequences and Impact on Child Enrollees
The Trump administration made major changes to long standing immigration and asylum protocols and practices. Among the changes was the implementation of the 2019 Migrant Protections Protocols (MPP), otherwise known as the “remain in Mexico” program. MPP required asylum seekers to reside in Mexico…
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Dual Status and Adultification: Black Girls' Lives in Context
In the United States, Black youth are consistently overrepresented in the child welfare and juvenile carceral systems. However, Black girls represent an invisible population whose lived experiences are historically devalued and silenced. Scholars have begun to explore Black girls in the child…
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Mental Health and the Intersectionality of Race and Gender of Crossover Youth
Abstract African American youth and their kinship families engaged in dual systems of care (i.e., child welfare system and juvenile justice system) commonly known as “crossover youth” can become overwhelmed by the competing priorities of both systems. While one system purports to advance a best…
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Guest Editors' Introduction
In this introduction, the guest editors of this special issue share their call to action in support of Black crossover youth.
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Planting a Seed: United States and Florida Response to Coronavirus-19 Pandemic-Related Hunger
Food insecurity and poor nutritional intake as a possible mental health risk factor for children, adolescents and adults are addressed from an ecological perspective in the midst of a global pandemic. During the recent global Coronovirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, approximately 10% of U.S. households…
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Determining the Theoretical Quality of the Strengths Perspective: A Critical Analysis
This paper asks a relevant question that previous work has not yet answered empirically: what is the theoretical quality of the Strengths Perspective (SP)? This paper answers this question, using the Theory Evaluation Scale (TES) and peer-reviewed materials from the existing literature. The…
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“COVID-19 and the Increase in Domestic Violence”
Has COVID-19 caused a disaster within a disaster? While many were focused on saving the lives of those stricken by the virus, other were being killed by their intimate partners. What happens when there is nowhere to run? How can one reach out for help, when everyone they would have reached out to…
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The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on At-Risk Populations Experiencing Stress and Family Violence: The Importance of An Action Model.
Abstract The paper was entitled: “The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on At-Risk Populations Experiencing stress and Family Violence: The Importance of An Action Model.” As the title of the paper indicates, the paper had an ambitious task of showing how vulnerable populations, such as African…
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The Pandemic and the Pre-School to Prison Pipeline: A Public-School Teacher's Perspective
We simply do not have access to best practices for leading, teaching, and learning during a pandemic, as this experience is new. Quarantining, social distancing, teaching remotely, and learning from home have taught us so much about the endless possibilities of education. In this commentary, I…
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Evaluation of an After-School Program for African-American and Hispanic Male Youth: Please Call Me Mister
The novel coronavirus significantly impacted the lives of people worldwide. In the United States, the lives of children and youth were disrupted with school closures and lack of access to afterschool programs they previously attended. African American and Hispanic boys attending an after-school…
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Issue Editor Reflection
This special issue of the Journal of Family Strengths enhances the conversation related to interventions that will be most helpful to assist our African American and Latino males be successful in the classroom. Unique to this issue is a series of Prospectus from the Field op-ed pieces from emerging…
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Surviving COVID19 (Increased Domestic Violence, Marginalized Communities, and Innovative Solutions)
Surviving COVID19 (Increased Domestic Violence, Marginalized Communities, and Innovative Solutions) Domestic violence generally refers to violence occurring between residences within one single location. Intimate partner violence is domestic violence by a current or former spouse or partner in an…