On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children. The statistical tables presented in this volume assist in meeting the demand for timely, reliable, comparable and comprehensive data on the state of the world's children.
This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and considers historical areas of service--foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, ...
Guidelines for Establishing a Special Youth Protection Program for Native People
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Making an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence: A Reader
The Children of the Poor
Addressing the Program and Personnel Crisis in Child Welfare: A Social Work Response
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Protocol for the Conduct of Child Protection Case Conferences
Child Care and Family Support: Choices for the Church : a Discussion Paper
Foster Care for Children in Ireland: Issues and Challenges for the 1990s