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Globalsl.org is announcing its first Global Service & Ethical Photography Contest, to encourage appropriate use of photography and social media during cross-cultural service experiences, including orphanage volunteering.
Foster Care India is launching a Manifesto to help change the way that over 1.2 billion people look after and protect children in India.
This article presents the findings of a 12-year study, conducted by Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital in the USA, that examined the effects of institutionalization on Romanian children’s brain development.
A full day event taking place in San Diego on January 25th, 2015 as a part of the Chadwick Center’s 29th Annual Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment which will be held in San Diego from 26-29 January, 2015.
This study, based on a sample of 1,324 Jewish and Arab adolescents aged 11–19 in 32 RCSs, examines the prevalence and multilevel correlates of verbal (such as cursing) and indirect (such as social exclusion) forms of victimization by peers in residential care facilities.
This article from the Migration Policy Institute examines the impact of labor migration on children who are left behind, from an economic and social lens, and with particular attention to gendered implications.
This study examines the influence of a subset of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), placement instability, and childhood disability in uniquely predicting mental health outcomes among racially diverse foster care alumni from a private foster care agency in the US.
This report discusses concerns raised by participants of Thematic Area 3 (Intercountry Adoption Agencies and the HCIA) of the International Forum on Intercountry Adoption and Global Surrogacy held in August 2014.
This study compares the development of children living in orphanages with that of children living in slums with their biological parents in Odisha, India.
Since its adoption in 1989, 193 countries have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Somalia has just become the 194th.