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The Irish Foster Carers Association is calling for greater support for the foster care system in response to a recent case of rape of three girls in foster care in County Galway, according to this article from the Irish Times.
Nigerian authorities have removed over 160 children and teenagers from a "baby factory" and two unregistered orphanages in Lagos, according to this article from the BBC.
The authors of this paper argue that young migrants without legal documentation are urgently in need of our attention as child and youth care workers and scholars.
The Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) in Los Angeles County, California is launching a program "to use high-tech mapping to improve court-ordered visitations for the 18,000 children placed in the county’s foster care system," according to this article from the Chronicle for Social Change.
UNICEF is seeking a local consultant for Child Protection Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism in the Philippines.
The UNAIDS Inter Agency Task Team (IATT) for Social Protection, Care and Support will join representatives from governments, donors, academicians and civil society from 25– 26 April 2018 for the International Conference on Fast-Tracking Social Protection to end AIDS.
UNICEF has issued an RFP inviting eligible firms to submit a proposal for Development of the branding package and communication materials for the mass media, community engagement, and Interactive Communication Technologies components of the ‘Cambodia PROTECT: Communication Strategy to End Violence against Children and Unnecessary Family Separation’, and design and delivery of a training of trainers for the community engagement component.
This is a small-scale study examining the experiences of Aged-Out Unaccompanied Minors (UAMs) who transition from foster care into Direct Provision (DP) in Ireland.
This article from Bright Magazine tells the story of Ly Seav Meng and other children who are placed in the care of orphanages in Cambodia, not because they are parent-less, but because their parents see it as the only way to provide education and opportunity for their children.
In this project, researchers provided foster parents with a trauma-informed, evidence-based parenting program (Incredible Years; IY) and assessed its impact on child behavior, foster parent stress and attitudes, and perceived effect on parenting.