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From June 1 to 4, Terre des hommes organizes an Innovation Bootcamp in Budapest. The Bootcamp will gather experts from around the world to co-create six innovative ideas that aim to improve the protection of children.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

This study aims to confirm the proof of concept within foster carers and to explore the potential risks associated with intent to continue fostering, overall job satisfaction and psychological factors (avoidant coping) that could be targets for interventions.

"Thousands of 'pinball kids' are being shifted around the care system and between schools, putting them at risk of being excluded, groomed and recruited into gangs" in the UK, according to this article from the Guardian.

This thesis took on a meta-analytical approach to examine sources of heterogeneity between studies evaluating the effect of foster care on adaptive functioning, cognitive functioning, externalizing behavior, internalizing behavior, and total problems behavior.

In this blog post on Stahili's website, Stahili volunteer and advocate Catherine Cottam recounts her experience of volunteering in an orphanage in Kenya, only to learn later the harm that can be done by volunteering in orphanages.

To understand what states are doing, the U.S. Juvenile Law Center created the National Extended Foster Care Review.

This study examines the mental health of adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) in Namibia, and the factors that contribute to mental health problems.

This study outlines several ways in which family separation negatively impacts Syrian refugees in Jordan.

This report compiles presentations and notes from the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation & Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) Family Care Uganda Learning Event, Economic Strengthening and Keeping Children in Family Care, held May 29-30, 2018.