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Supporting Breastfeeding: Current Status and Future Challenges.
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Canahuati, Judy; Joya de Suarez, Maria Jose – Child Welfare, 2001
Discusses initiatives to educate societies about the benefits of breastfeeding infants and to create supports to foster breastfeeding in the United States and the world. Considers precedents for advocacy set by La Leche League, the Innocenti Declaration, and the "10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding." Notes obstacles to efforts to…
Descriptors: Breastfeeding, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Global Perspectives on Child Welfare. Preface.
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Pasztor, Eileen Mayers; McFadden, Emily Jean – Child Welfare, 2001
Discusses the effects of a global perspective on awareness of issues affecting child welfare worldwide, including warfare, land mines, AIDS, child labor, child sexual exploitation, and immigration. Considers programs and policies from other countries, including nongovernmental organizations, that can be replicated worldwide to better children's…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Abuse, Child Labor, Child Welfare
Organizational Responses to the Convention on the Rights of the Child: International Lessons for Child Welfare Organizations.
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Woll, Lisa – Child Welfare, 2001
Describes ways six large, international, child-focused nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have responded to the nearly universal ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Considers the role of NGOs in drafting the CRC, changes in their human rights/child rights programs, and the inclusion of children's participation in…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childrens Rights, Foreign Policy, International Cooperation
Kinship Care of the Abused Child: The New Zealand Experience.
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Worrall, Jill – Child Welfare, 2001
Discusses the experiences of caregivers and their kin children under the 1989 New Zealand Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act. Considers the responsibilities and roles of extended family in Maori culture reflected in the Act's provisions, as well as changes and challenges for the caregiving family. Notes the value of this policy and…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare
Families for Children: International Strategies To Build In-Country Capacity in the Philippines, Thailand, Romania, and India.
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Stiles, Carole F.; Dhamaraksa, Darawan; dela Rosa, Rosario; Goldner, Tanya; Kalyanvala, Roxana – Child Welfare, 2001
Describes international programs developed in collaboration with Holt International Children's Services, a nongovernmental organization fostering international adoptions and assisting in developing child care programs and practices, in the Philippines, Thailand, India, and Romania. Considers strategies used for program development, including…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Foster Care, International Cooperation
Models of Intervention for Children in Difficult Circumstances in South Africa.
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Sewpaul, Vishanthie – Child Welfare, 2001
Examines intervention models addressing the welfare of abused and neglected children and those affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Notes larger, government-sponsored interventions and innovative local programs working with at-risk children, including the National Strategy on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Gauteng Programme of Action for Children,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Confronting Adolescent Bias and Intolerance through Cross-Cultural Immersion: An American-Croatian Collaboration.
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Dale, Nan; Danko, Roman; Breen, Markham – Child Welfare, 2001
Describes a partnership to develop youth leaders and interventions to reverse violence and bigotry among youth growing up in a war zone. Details how the Croatian Project REACH (Recreational and Educational Activities for Children's Health) and U.S Children's Village exposed youth from both countries to experiences that helped them examine their…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Child Development, Child Welfare
The Multinational Transfer of Competency-Based Foster Parent Assessment, Selection, and Training: A Nine-Country Case Study.
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Herczog, Maria; van Pagee, Rob; Pasztor, Eileen Mayers – Child Welfare, 2001
Describes transfer of methods of the PRIDE program for foster parent training and assessment from Sweden and Finland, to Hungary, Norway, Poland, and Estonia. Discusses three critical factors: program content, methodology used to accomplish the transfer, and commitment of the transferring organizations and individuals involved. Considers the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Foster Care