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Children and young persons (CYPs) in out-of-home care often demonstrate a variety of needs resultant from their early adverse experiences and complex family backgrounds. In Singapore, the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment tool is used to capture the individual’s needs and strengths for case planning. This study had two aims: first, it sought to test whether CYPs who entered residential care with higher level-of-care (LoC) scores on the CANS tool, indicative of higher needs or more intensive services required, were more likely to experience a critical…
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Families under multiple stresses present a challenge that requires coordinated multiple helping hands. Drawing on the baseline data, this paper profiles >200 multistressed families (MF) who entered into a specific enhancement programme in Singapore and compares the sociodemographies, family functioning and resilience of the children between transnational and non-transnational families. Findings show these transnational families have significantly older fathers, greater age difference between spouses, more fathers unemployed, and have…
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In this chapter of Communicating for Social Change, I will present my analysis of the micro- and macro-level challenges of transnational separation of Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW)-parents and their left-behind children, which consequently beget psychosocial distresses among transnational family members. In doing so, I have drawn evidence from my interview of Singapore-based Filipino mothers who left their children and family in the Philippines to pursue overseas work, as well as existing literature on Filipino transnational parents and families. Furthermore, I will put forward…
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The negative impact of childhood maltreatment, which can often extend well into adulthood, consistently appears to be ameliorated if victimized children possess several resiliencies or strengths. However, little is known about how vulnerable children's outcomes are affected by different levels of strengths across different out-of-home placement settings. Hence, this study examined the association of two factors — children's strengths and placement type, with outcomes at two time-points during out-of-home care. The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool was used to…
The negative impact of childhood maltreatment, which can often extend well into adulthood, consistently appears to be ameliorated if victimized children possess several resiliencies or strengths. However, little is known about how vulnerable children's outcomes are affected by different levels of strengths across different out-of-home placement settings. This study examined the association of two factors, children's strengths and placement type, with outcomes at two time-points during out-of-home care. The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool was used to assess the…
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The negative impact of childhood maltreatment, which can often extend well into adulthood, consistently appears to be ameliorated if victimized children possess several resiliencies or strengths. However, little is known about how vulnerable children's outcomes are affected by different levels of strengths across different out-of-home placement settings. Hence, this study examined the association of two factors — children's strengths and placement type, with outcomes at two time-points during out-of-home care. The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool was used to…