Addressing Health Risks of Unaccompanied Minors

State Laws on Minor Consent for Routine Medical Care

This resource lists laws allowing minors who are living on their own, including unaccompanied ... risk to the minor's life or health. Pa. Code §27.97. A person ...

Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs ...

Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children ... health, early childhood development, childhood traumatic stress ...

45 CFR Part 410 -- Care and Placement of Unaccompanied Children

(1) An unaccompanied child with serious mental health or behavioral health issues ... addressing issues relating to the unaccompanied children's progress ...

ICE struggles to track unaccompanied minors, oversight report says

DHS typically places unaccompanied migrant children with the Department of Health ... address problems with child labor. She said that the agency ...

Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Unaccompanied Afghan ...

... results of a recent project: “Understanding Needs and Strengths that Affect Mental Health Among Unaccompanied Afghan Minors (UAM) in Resettlement”. The ...

Emotional Distress in Unaccompanied Migrant Children and ...

Studies of unaccompanied migrant children in Europe have characterized mental health symptoms and symptom chronicity, but these have limited ...

Children's Services | Unaccompanied Migrant - USCRI

A home study is required in cases of children with special needs, a history of abuse or trafficking, or UCs whose sponsor appears to pose a risk to the safety ...

Vulnerability of unaccompanied children

Unaccompanied children as a particularly vulnerable group are more easily influenced by their environment.Unaccompanied girls especially are at risk of forced ...

Child Migrant Protection Toolkit

They are also experiencing harsh conditions while in confinement, including placement in extremely overcrowded Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and ...

3.5 Children and Adolescents at Risk - UNHCR

They may have specific needs and protection risks that cannot be adequately addressed in the country of asylum, including mental health, physical health or ...

UNACCOMPANIED MINORS (UAMs) IN GREECE

The purpose of obtaining an accurate social history was an attempt to address the needs and problems faced by the migrant child, to assess their home and family ...

Risk and Protective Factors for Youth - Youth.gov

The report provides an overview of mental health as well as a section targeted at children's mental health. One of the key sections focuses on the risk and ...

Children - the United Nations

Following more than a decade of focus on child health issues, UNICEF expanded its interests to address the needs of the whole child. Thus began an abiding ...

Addressing questions and concerns about unaccompanied children ...

Addressing questions and concerns about unaccompanied children and short-term immigrant foster care · By participating in short-term immigrant foster care, am I ...

Luttrell Leads Letter Addressing Concerns Over the Safety of ...

... Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary ... Luttrell Leads Letter Addressing Concerns Over the Safety of Unaccompanied Migrant Children.

Addressing the health and mental health needs of unaccompanied ...

In a study of migrant youth (both unaccompanied and accompanied) screened at a school-based health center in the US, 44% of youth were referred to behavioral ...

Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule

While under ORR care, unaccompanied children are provided with classroom education, healthcare, socialization/recreation, mental health services ...

A Child's Health is the Public's Health | CDC

Children have more contact with others, and they have less developed immune systems to fight off infections. This means they are more likely to catch an illness ...

ICE Cannot Monitor All Unaccompanied Migrant Children Released ...

... address the issues. Specifically, we found ICE cannot always monitor the location and status of unaccompanied migrant children who are ...

Seeking Better Protection for Unaccompanied Children

... children at the border” due to public health concerns around COVID-19. ... To address these issues and protect UACs, Ramirez recommends ...