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Resources for Child Advocacy

Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 2001
The Advocate is a forum for exploring our roles as advocates for the children and families we serve.
Kathryn Ekegren, Kathryn Ekegren
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The Concept of Child Advocacy

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973
The authors examine the concept of child advocacy in historical perspective, describing its antecedents as reflected in law, education, welfare, and child labor. Although it is not yet realized in practice, child advocacy seems to represent the recognition by society that the developmental needs of its children are so important that they must be ...
J F, McDermott, W M, Bolman, A M, Arensdorf, R A, Markoff   +3 more
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Advocacy and Child Neglect

Pediatric Annals, 2014
Pediatricians have a unique opportunity to intervene in the lives of children to identify and to prevent neglect. While it remains important to care for individual patients affected by neglect, the ecological model of child neglect requires intervention at the parent, family, community, and societal levels.
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Child advocacy: A perspective.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1976
Child advocacy provides a vehicle for building checks into systems that fail children. This paper examines the assumptions underlying child advocacy efforts, the types of child advocacy programs that have developed in the past few years, and the types of strategies used by child advocates.
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Case Advocacy in Child Welfare

Social Work, 1997
This article examines the concept of advocacy in child welfare. Definitions of social advocacy and case advocacy are presented that will perhaps give child advocates, child welfare workers, and social workers a better understanding of the concepts and their roles in the protection of children who have been abused or neglected.
P, Litzelfelner, C G, Petr
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Child Advocacy Center

2022
The nature of a visit to a child advocacy center (CAC) following an allegation of child abuse has the potential to be challenging for children and their non-offending caregiver for a variety of reasons. Within a CAC, Certified Child Life Specialists are able to call upon their unique skill set to support children throughout the many elements of a ...
Victoria Isaacson, Samantha Ainsworth
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Child advocacy in the nuclear age

Pediatrics, 1978
In 1943, amidst the nation's mobilization for the Second World War, there appeared an article by Dr. William Schmidt of the Children's Bureau on the susceptibility of young people to the hazards of radioactive materials.1 Reviewing the literature, and invoking generally accepted pediatric principles, Dr.
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Child Participation and Child Advocacy

Abstract This chapter on child participation and child advocacy discusses the various professional views on child involvement in family dispute resolution. It examines the factors used to determine whether or not and how to involve a child’s voice and interests.
Stacey Platt, Laura Matthews-Jolly
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Child Maltreatment Law and Policy as a Foundation for Child Advocacy

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2009
Advocacy for children is a fundamental pediatric concern and activity. Notwithstanding achievements for children to date, pediatrics can do more in the twenty-first century to advocate for children and promote research on ways in which advocacy for children can be improved.
Donald C, Bross, Richard D, Krugman
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The First Year of a Child Advocacy Project

Psychiatric Services, 1975
In a child advocacy project funded through a community mental health center, five area residents were trained as advocates and assigned to two elementary schools. The advocates spent much of their first year in training, and in trying to establish themselves as resource persons for children and families, in setting up parent-school councils, and in ...
W M, Womack, L S, Sata
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