Parent Participation

This section highlights resources focused on the participation of parents and caregivers in decisions about children's care, including decisions about their own children and their placement in alternative care, as well as advocacy efforts to reform systems of care and protection for children.

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Better Care Network and International Parent Advocacy Network (IPAN),

Promoting parent and child participation is central to achieving children’s rights. This review of the literature and program documentation presents evidence on the role of parent advocacy in achieving better outcomes for children and their families in child welfare.

Judy Havlicek - Children and Youth Services Review,

This systematic review synthesizes information about the relationships aging out foster youth have with their birth or stepparents after legally mandated separations in foster care.

Zmysłowska, Magdalena - Praca Socjalna,

This article deals with the issues of family assistance from the perspective of working with the biological family of a child placed in foster care.

Center for the Study of Social Policy,

This case study examines the partnership that the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and Family Voices undertook to create and implement a process for engaging families in the Pediatrics Supporting Parents (PSP) national initiative to promote the social and emotional development (SED) of young children.

Hannah McGlade - Australian Feminist Law Journal ,

This article documents the author's experiences with the state’s contemporary removal of Aboriginal children in Western Australia (WA) and the practice of Aboriginal Family Led Decision Making (AFLDM), a family led decision making process supported as best practice for Aboriginal families.

Aino Suomi, Nina Lucas, Morag McArthur, Cathy Humphreys, Timothy Dobbins, Stephanie Taplin - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The aim of this cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to test the effectiveness of a contact intervention for parents having supervised contact with children in long-term OOHC.

Family Rights Group,

This guide aims to help parents and families of children who are looked after in the care system. The guide also provides information for families whose children have been adopted.

The Children’s Trust Fund Alliance and Birth Parent National Network,

The Children’s Trust Fund Alliance joined with a group of parents from the BPNN to produce these issue briefs. They include the perspectives of parents with life experiences in using services to strengthen their families and focus on timely and important topics.

Taliah Drayak and Andy Bilson - Parents, Families & Allies Network (PFAN),

This blog post describes the benefits of parent advocacy for parents involved in the child protection system and includes a letter of thanks written by Taliah Drayak to her advocate.

Dr Gary Clapton - University of Edinburgh,

This article discusses the results of the first Scottish survey of parents’ experiences of child protection.