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This conference is an invitation to educators involved in leading or organising service learning activities in Australian schools.
UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist in Khartoum, Sudan.
This report from the UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health calls for an end to the use of detention and confinement as a tool "to promote public safety, “morals” and public health."
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This talk, given by Dr Charles Nelson, focuses on two strands of work that reflect very different types of adversity: (1) the effects of early, profound psychosocial deprivation (including a review of the most recent findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an intervention for early institutionalization in Romania) and (2) the effects of growing up in a low resource urban center where children are exposed to a large number of both biological (e.g., malnutrition) and psychosocial (maltreatment) stressors (including a review of recent findings from a large study taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh).
This paper presents results from a cross-sectional survey and reports findings from a sample of 162 Northern Irish social workers.
This review explored the conceptualization, operationalization and measurement of resilience in children and adolescents living in residential care settings.
The Global Social Service Workforce Allianceis seeking a Program Officer.
Using an intersectional framework, this study investigated whether race and gender alone or the intersection of race and gender predicted the educational attainment of 429 maltreated youth involved with the U.S. child welfare system.
The state of Andhra Pradesh in India is introducing a foster care scheme in which prospective adoptive parents will be given custody of children living in government- or NGO-run orphanages and institutions for a temporary period, according to this article from the Hindu.