Zimbabwe

Demographic Data:

  • Total Population: 15,245,855
  • Population under 15: 41.6%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 57.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 155 out of 188 
  • World Bank Status: Low Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 16.7%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.1 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 44.6%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, DHS 2010-11

 

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Jane EK Hartley, John McAteer, Larry Doi and Ruth Jepson - Qualitative Social Work,

The study addresses the needs of Scottish kinship carers of teenage children who have been identified as being in need of extra support.

Malvaso, Catia, Delfabbro, Paul, Day, Andrew and Nobes, Gavin - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology,

This study reports the characteristics and needs of 2,045 young people who were under supervision in secure custody or detention in South Australia between 1995 and 2012 according to the level of exposure to the child protection system in an Australian jurisdiction.

Njeri Chege - Social Sciences,

This article looks at how charity organizations running private residential child care institutions on the Kenyan coast make use of the personal data of children in their care, as a means of securing and maintaining the support of donors from the global North.

Glen Casel - Orlando Sentinel,

In this article, Glen Casel - CEO of Community Based Care of Central Florida - makes a connection between the current family separation crisis at the US border with Mexico and the family separations that occur in the US child welfare system.

Amy Lynch, Fiona Newlands, Donald Forrester - Child & Family Social Work,

This study contributes to the development of understanding of empathy as a social work skill through a mixed‐methods analysis of 110 audio recordings of meetings in a child protection service between workers and parents, applying a coding framework for analysis.

Hannah Carver - Child & Family Social Work,

The aim of the study was to examine how carers communicate with looked‐after young people about alcohol, tobacco, and drug use.

Sorcha Ní Chobhthaigh, Fiona Duffy, Sorcha Ní Chobhthaigh - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry,

This systematic review aimed to establish the effectiveness of interventions with adoptive parents on adopted children and adolescents’ psychological well-being, behavioural functioning and parent–child relationship.

World Health Organization & partners,

INSPIRE Handbook: Action for implementing the seven strategies (hereafter referred to as the INSPIRE Handbook) explains in detail how to choose and implement interventions that will fit your needs and context.

The Capacity Building Center for States,

This event aims to develop agency capacity and programs that foster healthy work environments for child welfare professionals.

U.N. Heads of State and Government and High Representatives,

The Global Compact forms a basis to improve governance and international understanding of migration, to address the challenges associated with migration today, and to strengthen the contribution of migrants and migration to sustainable development.