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Using data from the U.S. National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD), combined with the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System (AFCARS), the present study provides an analysis of the risk and protective factors contributing to homelessness among a nationwide sample of foster care youth at age 21, 29% of whom had experienced homelessness.
The objective of this study was to examine the utility of child protective services data in identifying predictors of placement disruption.
In this opinion piece for the Chronicle of Social Change, Theresa Covington, the director of the Within Our Reach office at the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and the director of the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention, describes the need for better data sharing to prevent child maltreatment fatalities in the United States.
Family Week is an opportunity for the Family Alliance to come together, celebrate, connect, learn and reflect on joint actions. Family Week will explore both achievements and challenges in connection with the theme of children’s rights, through a dynamic series of online events and sharing of members’ news, updates, and campaigns.
Save the Children and War Child Holland are working together to look at the value of participatory approaches using creative methods to ensure community engagement and ownership within the field of community-level child protection in humanitarian and development contexts.
This article reports the findings of a small study investigating the experiences of care experienced young people in relation to higher education in England.
This article elaborates on provisions concerning the international protection system for minor migrants. It examines entry strategies put into place by young migrants facing the Spanish migration system.
The article is based on interviews with 22 children’s spokespersons in the Norwegian arrangement for indirect participation in care proceedings, and presents analyses of the spokespersons’ experiences of contradictions and dilemmas in their practices.
The main objective of this study is to analyze the level of agreement between young people in residential care (RC) and their care workers (who, in Spain, are called social educators, and who have a specific university degree).
This research examined the impact of individual and relational characteristics of foster parents on permanency outcomes for children in care.