2012 List of scholarly conferences in the Caribbean

Here is a list of Scholarly conferences in the Caribbean for 2012. Click here for list.

Demographic trends of U.S. residents and citizens born in Trinidad and Tobago

Here is a recently released brief by The Human Development Group on demographic trends of U..S residents and citizens born in Trinidad and Tobago. Click on the image to go to the document.

New Facebook page on Barrel children

There is a new Facebook page on barrel children. I did not create it. But it seems fairly new. Access it here.

Karen McPharlane's article on barrel kids

Karen's article is very interesting. It can be found here. She gives a good description of the challenges faced by parents who migrate to the US and leave their children behind in the Caribbean. The challenges indicated by Karen are especially arduous for undocumented parents.

She argues that individuals returning to the Caribbean should not hyper-inflate their living standards in the US without also conveying real life challenges. Nevertheless, she does recognize that parents do not make these decisions lightly. And often they grieve over the separation from their children. 

There is a lot of good points embedded in her article that guides us to intervention points.

Brook Larmer's Newsweek article on Barrel children

Brooks Larmer piece on barrel children in the Caribbean was the first article on this issue published in a mainstream periodical in the U.S. I am placing a link to the article here so that we can revisit it. 

Welcome - The Foundation for the Development of Caribbean Children

The Caribbean will soon have the first indigenous private foundation dedicated to early childhood development. It will be named the Foundation for the Development of Caribbean Children. It will evolve from the highly successful, eight-year-old Caribbean Child Support Initiative (CCSI). Congratulations CCSI!!!!!

Dr. Claudette Crawford Brown lecture in Jamaica

Dr. Claudette Crawford Brown is a faculty member at the University of the West Indies - Mona campus in Jamaica. She is a colleague. We have collaborated on issues around barrel children. She participated in a forum I chaired funded by NIH at the Biennial conference of Caribbean and International Social Work Educators. She has worked to understand the issue of barrel children for over twenty years. Her lecture on juvenile delinquency in Jamaica can be accessed here. The Jamaica Child Welfare Resource Network for Children and Families can be found here. It managed by Claudette.