Collins-Flake Letter to Nielsen and Azar
U.S. Senate (June 16, 2018)
A letter from U.S. Senators Collins and Flake to DHS Secretary Nielsen and HSS Secretary Azar regarding the separation of immigrant families.
Nearly 2,000 minors separated from families at the border, according to new government data
PBS News Hour (June 15, 2018)
Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the U.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown on illegal entries, according to Department of Homeland Security figures.
Read MoreAmerican Professional Society on the Abuse of Children 26th Annual Colloquium
The 2019 Call for Papers will be available soon at www.apsac.org or you can email APSAC at jcampbell@apsac.org to request a form. APSAC is soliciting abstracts for training, research, roundtable and poster presentations for the 26th Annual APSAC Colloquium in Salt Lake City, Utah. Join APSAC at one of the field’s premier forums for child maltreatment professionals to offer training presentations and report new research findings. Topics address legal, medical, mental health, investigative, preventive, and protective services work with abused and neglected children, their families, and perpetrators of abuse. Presentations are encouraged on all aspects of child maltreatment, including cultural diversity. Submissions are encouraged on all aspects of child maltreatment, including cultural diversity.
More Info‘Tent cities’ for migrant children reportedly cost much more than detaining families together
Kevin Breuninger and Tucker Higgins, CNBC (June 20, 2018)
It reportedly costs $775 per person per night to keep the newly separated children of families who cross the U.S. border illegally in “tent cities. The per-person cost at certain detention centers that would keep families together is $298 per night, according to an agency estimate from 2014, NBC reported.
Read MoreI Worked at a Child Migrant Center. What I Was Told to Do Was So Inhumane That I Quit.
Antar Davidson, Mother Jones (June 20, 2018)
Read MoreHispanic Couples in the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation: How Representative are they of Low-Income Hispanic Couples in the United States?
Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti; Lina Guzman; National Research Center on Hispanic Families & Children (June 2018)
This brief assesses the extent to which Hispanic participants in the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation data set represent the broader U.S. population of Hispanic couples.
How Well Do National Surveys Measure Hispanic Families and Households?
Lina Guzman; Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti; Marta Alvira-Hammond; Emily Miller; Christina Padilla; Renee Ryberg; Claudia Vega; National Research Center on Hispanic Families & Children (June 20, 2018)
This brief examines the capacity of our nation’s data infrastructure to measure, describe, and understand the structure, diversity, complexity, and dynamics of Hispanic family life through the review of more than 20 mostly national surveys to assess the extent to which they include measures critical to understanding the characteristics and experiences of Hispanic families and households.
How to Volunteer to Help Immigrant Children Separated from Family
Social Work Blog, NASW (June 19, 2018)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Board Member Guadalupe G. Lara, LMSW, an expert on social work and immigration, is encouraging social workers to advocate for these children and “to speak to some of the facts because there’s a lot of misinformation on the other side.”
Read MoreFamily separations at the border alarm child-welfare experts
David Crary, Tampa Bay Times (June 19, 2018)
Child welfare has always been a challenging profession; state and local agencies across America make difficult decisions every day to separate children from their parents. But those agencies have ways of minimizing the trauma that aren’t being employed by the Trump administration in separating immigrant families at the Mexican border…
Read MoreFact-Checking the Trump Administration’s Case for Child Separation at the Border
Linda Qiu, New York Times (June 19,2018)
The president, the attorney general and the secretary of homeland security have used lots of figures and interpretations of recent history to explain recent policy changes. Not all of it has been accurate.
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