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This study assesses whether 157 children who spent time in a Ghanaian residential care facility but who have been reunified with their families scored differently on a battery of standardized child wellbeing measures than 204 children still living in residential care facilities using propensity score matching models.
Both historical and contemporary residential care for children have been found to present risks to their safety and security. Views about the characteristics of workers that helped them to feel safe in the placement were obtained from 27 children and young people who were placed in residential care in Australia.
This study explores self-stigma in the utilization of mental health services while in foster care and whether the stigma developed while in foster care impacts mental health service use upon foster care exit.
The Childonomics project has developed an instrument that can help to reflect on the long-term social and economic return of investing in children and families.
The United Nations Security Council has urged countries and non-State actors to allow children access to education and healthcare during and post-conflicts, according to this report from the UN News Centre.
The Verbatim Formula is an applied performance research project which is currently working with looked after children and young people.
The Editors for a Special Issue of Emerging Adulthood focused on care-leaving processes and services in Africa are seeking relevant research papers to be included in the issue.
Lumos "will help implement the reform of orphanages in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region under a pilot project, according to the Ukrainian media company NewWest Media."
This study sought to identify factors that contribute to the relational well-being of youth in substitute care.
This article, with accompanying short video documentary, from the New York Times tells an in-depth and harrowing story of an amateur historian, Catherine Corless, seeking to learn about the history of a "mother and baby home" run by Bon Secours nuns in the town of Tuam, Ireland, and the story of mistreatment, poor conditions, trafficking, and unmarked graves she uncovered.