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This qualitative study explored processes of resilience in the transition to adulthood for cross-systems youth aged 18 to 24.
This study aimed to compare the rates of psychiatric diagnoses and criminal convictions in young adulthood (ages 18–25 years) among children who were first placed at ages 2–6 years with those of children who were not placed and who had similar sociodemographic and family characteristics.
This article explores the impacts of two common forms of early childhood adversity, maltreatment and placement in institutional care, on children's behavioral, psychiatric, and physical health into adulthood.
This chapter elaborates on the specifics of these two limbs of Article 37 Convention on the Rights of the Child, the core human rights provision for the protection of children deprived of liberty.
"While there's little doubt, a traveler who signs up to help at an orphanage is intending to help the community and children, in reality, they could be helping an industry which takes advantage of the vulnerable," says this article from World Nomads.
The government of Haiti has set out "to improve the deplorable status of the country’s children," through a partnership between the state child welfare agency and several international child-service organizations, by beginning to build a foster care system in the country, according to this article from the Washington Post.
This post from World Vision marks the launch of the new ‘Civil Society Compact' (CSO Compact), which "sets out a pathway for change to help eliminate orphanages worldwide."
This study explored how organizational structure (dormitory vs family unit) and funding sources (government vs private) influence the work and health of individuals employed as caregivers in children’s homes in Ghana.
This mixed methods study examined elements of effective implementation and the effectiveness of an incentive program piloted in a group home serving adolescent boys.
Although the US has ended its policy of family separation for families crossing the US border with Mexico, experts state that it may take years to reunify the families that have already been separated at the border due to different obstacles, according to this article from the Guardian.