Looking at Latino Families’ Access to Early Care and Education Through Multiple Dimensions.
Society for Research in Child Development (May 23, 2018)
The University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortium, in collaboration with the Society for Research in Child Development, hosted a webinar on May 23, 2018 on Latino Families’ Access to Early Care and Education.
View WebinarWhat Parents Talk About When They Talk About Learning: A National Survey About Young Children and Science
Megan Silander, Todd Grindal, Naomi Hupert, Elisa Garcia, Kea Anderson, Philip Vahey, Shelley Pasnik, Education Development Center, Inc. & SRI International (May 2018)
This study used a nationally representative parent survey, combined with in-depth interviews and home visits with a smaller sample of families, to learn how parents of young children, particularly low-income parents, encourage and take part in their children’s learning, especially their science learning.
Read MoreWhy and How Do Low-income Hispanic Families Search for Early Care and Education (ECE)?
Julia L. Mendez; Danielle A. Crosby, National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families (May 2018)
This brief uses data from the 2012 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to describe why low-income Hispanic parents with young children (birth to age 5) report searching for child care; comparison data for low-income non-Hispanic black and white parents are also reported.
Read MoreParent Know Your Rights Resources
ABA Center on Children and the Law, American Bar Association (May 10, 2018)
The resource identifies rights and sometimes responsibilities remaining with the parents while their child is out of their home but before termination of parental rights. Sometimes these rights are called “residual rights.” Different from due process rights, residual rights typically include topics such as education or medical decision making and religious affiliation determinations. They may also include permissions for haircuts and tattoos. Written to be parent friendly, the ABA worked with Annie E. Casey to develop resources for each state.
Read MoreImmigrants in the Child Welfare System: Case Studies
ABA Center on Children and the Law, American Bar Association (May 2018)
This resource provides guidance on how to navigate a number of scenarios in which children and their families may benefit from support services but face intersecting immigration and child welfare legal challenges. The analysis informs not only child welfare professionals including case workers, attorneys, and judges, but also immigration law professionals whose clients may interact with the state child welfare system. Understanding the complexities that arise when families interact with both systems is a critical step in better advocacy for and support of immigrant children and families.
Immigration, Acculturation and Parenting
Marc H. Bornstein, PhD and Yvonne Bohr, PhD, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development (April 2011)
Parenting occupies a central node in the nexus between culture and adaptive human development. While parents in all societies are expected to nurture and protect young children, culture influences a wide array of family functions including roles, decision-making patterns, and cognitions and practices related to childrearing and child development. Parenting may be subjected to complex transformations when families emigrate from one society to settle in another.
Read ArticleImmigrants at a Loss: The Need for Services that Promote Child Well-being Among Latino Families with Child Welfare Contact
Megan Finno-Velasquez, PhD and Sophia Sepp, Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (May 15, 2018)
This research brief highlights the central findings of a three-study dissertation that explored the needs of high-risk Latino families with child welfare contact and the barriers that exist in receiving services to meet those needs through a quantitative examination of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAWII).
Our Children’s Fear: Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children
Wendy Cervantes, Hannah Matthews and Rebecca Ullrich, CLASP (3/14/2018)
This webinar presents findings from two CLASP reports: “Our Children’s Fear: Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children” and “Immigration Policy’s Harmful Impacts on Early Care and Education”. It also explains how immigration policy is affecting young children and their parents as well as early childhood educators. Recommendations for stakeholders at all levels to safeguard the wellbeing of children in immigrant families are also provided.
View WebinarImpacts of Immigration Actions and News and the Psychological Distress of U.S. Latino Parents Raising Adolescents
Kathleen M. Roche, M.S.W., Ph.D., Elizabeth Vaquera, Ph.D., Rebecca M. B. White, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Maria Ivonne Rivera, M.P.H., Journal of Adolescent Health (Jan 29, 2018)
This study describes how recent immigrant policy changes and news are impacting the lives of Latina/o immigrant parents raising adolescent children.
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