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In this article for the Guardian, Hannah Walker, a social worker and life story book worker, writes about the use of life story books for children who have been adopted.
This blog post from the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children explains the Initiative's in-depth review of states committed to prohibition of corporal punishment.
This article from the Lancet explores parental migration and its effect on children who are left behind in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa.
This briefing paper has been compiled using information included in the Out of the Shadows Index - which measures a country’s response to child sexual exploitation and abuse - and the ECPAT Country Overview for Nepal. The brief highlights the risk of sexual exploitation resulting from voluntourism practices, including volunteering in or visiting orphanages.
A qualitative program evaluation was conducted, including focus groups with 36 parenting young women who had participated in Passport to Parenting (P2P) initiative services and interviews with 11 key staff of the three partnering agencies.
The article features an interview with Hirokazu Yoshikawa, a developmental psychologist at New York University who codirects NYU’s Global TIES for Children, in which he speaks about the research that he and his colleagues have conducted into the impacts of parent-child separation and the efficacy of programs meant to help heal the damage.
This article provides a historical context and describes numerous provisions of the family group conference that protect participants and the proceedings. It then describes applications of FGC‐like approaches in the United States where practice models and policies—not laws—guide the implementation of such approaches.
The current study provides a more nuanced account of foster youth with disabilities’ transitions into adulthood.
This qualitative study explored the accounts of 50 residential childcare staff in Saudi Arabia, aiming to identify ways in which staff and residential institutions may function as attachment objects for the children in their care.
This article identifies the steps that can be taken to support women at risk of recurrently losing children to care.