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This study aims to explore the experiences of carers of children with cerebral palsy living in rural areas of Ghana who have received no rehabilitation services.

This paper focuses on the complicated experiences faced by Katrina-exposed children and their families and reviews follow-up research on Katrina’s effects on children and their caregivers in both New Orleans, Louisiana, and the coastal Mississippi area.

Therapeutic Interventions with Babies and Young Children in Care is about the value of observation and close attention for babies and young children who may be vulnerable to psychological and attachment difficulties.

The sole purpose of the study was to determine the factors influencing utilization of cash transferred to orphans and vulnerable children in Runyenjes Subcounty, Embu County. The study concluded that demographic characteristics had the greatest effect on the utilization of cash transferred to orphans and vulnerable children, followed by frequency of cash transferred then attitude of beneficiaries while home factors had the least effect to the utilization of cash transferred to orphans and vulnerable children.

The objective of this open access study was to analyse infants placed in out‐of‐home care in Sweden by incidence, medical diagnoses, and perinatal factors.

In this opinion piece for WBUR, Kari Hong - an assistant professor at Boston College Law School and expert in immigration law, immigration consequences of criminal convictions, criminal law and family law - discusses the use of detention facilities for children at the US border with Mexico despite the "established science that children are best cared for by families, whether their own, adopted or in foster care."

Drawing from focus groups with Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) foster parents, this paper explores different aspects of their experiences, identifies multiple ways in which they need support, and provides recommendations for foster care agencies looking to retain skilled foster parents and increase the quality and stability of children's experience in TFC programs.

The Partnerships Plus project invites qualified local and/or U.S.-based organizations, private voluntary organizations, non-governmental organizations, faith-based organizations, or universities to submit a Concept Paper as a first step in a competitive process for Advancing Protection and Care for Children in Adversity (Protect and Care) to support the achievement of the Objectives established in the U.S. Government Strategy on Children in Adversity, Advancing Protection and Care for Children in Adversity (APCCA).

This press release from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) reports on a recent action by PHR to convene medical professionals and medical students in front of the White House in the US capital "to oppose the harmful detention of families and children at the U.S. southern border."

This study was designed to extend previous research, help explain the role of the residential childcare context in bullying behaviors, and explore the relation of bullying with psychological distress among youths in residential childcare in Spain.