The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children© (NCMEC), serves as an information clearinghouse and national resource center on issues related to victims, missing and exploited children and operates a national toll-free hotline. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention … Read More
Author Archives: Susan Shaffette
Suicide Looms Large in Minds of Many Foster Youth
The suicide of any child is a tragedy, but studies show children in foster care are four times more likely than other children to attempt to take their own lives. Suicide risk is correlated with depression, lack of social support … Read More
Tags: Abuse, Child Maltreatment, Foster Care, Foster Youth, Maltreatment, Suicide, Trauma
Parent & Practitioner Newsletter – Summer 2020
The FRIENDS National Center for CBCAP is excited to share the latest edition of the Parents & Practitioners Summer 2020 Newsletter. The theme of this edition is preventing child neglect and the newsletter is available in both English and Spanish. … Read More
COVID-19 and Child Welfare: A Series of Virtual Meetings [Webpage]
This webpage explains the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is releasing a five-part series of interactive virtual meetings from June through August 2020, intended to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the State and federal policy responses … Read More
Counting Young Children in the 2020 Census
This fact sheet explains the 2020 Census helps determine which areas qualify for the critical resources that children and families depend on for the next 10 years. It notes an estimated 5% of children under the age of five were … Read More
Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention in Fatherhood Programs
This brief is intended to support the efforts of both researchers and father-serving professionals to study, evaluate, and implement practices for use in fatherhood programs to help prevent and address domestic violence (DV). It begins by providing background information on … Read More
Educational Supports for Youth in Foster Care
This factsheet discusses laws that require child welfare agencies to make reasonable efforts to provide services that will help families remedy the conditions that brought the child and family into the child welfare system. The issues examined include what constitutes … Read More
Tags: Child Welfare, Foster Youth, Laws
HIV and Pregnant Women, Infants, and Children [Website]
This website provides information on preventing perinatal HIV transmission. It explains perinatal HIV transmission (also known as mother-to-child transmission) can happen at any time during pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding, however, there are effective interventions for preventing perinatal HIV transmission, and … Read More
Tags: Children, Pregnancy, Prevention
Drug Misuse: Sustained National Efforts Are Necessary for Prevention, Response, and Recovery: [A Report to the Congress]: GAO Highlights
This report provides highlights findings from a study that analyzed drug misuse and deaths from overdoses for 2002–2018, reviewed selected empirical studies published from 2014–2019, and compared Government Accountability Office’s (GAO’s) High-Risk list criteria to findings and recommendations in over … Read More
Tags: Drugs, Prevention
Crimes Against Children/Online Predators [Webpage]
This webpage explains the mission of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations’ (FBI’s) Crimes Against Children program is to: provide a rapid, proactive, and comprehensive ability to counter all threats of abuse and exploitation to children when those crimes fall … Read More
Tags: Crimes Against Children