An updated list of literature and bibliographies concerning children and families affected by HIV/AIDS around the world. Most of the resources are focused on sub-Saharan Africa.

A brief 2-page overview of what steps should be taken if and when a social worker or other community worker admits a child to a residential institution.

Detailed examination of debate over institutional and alternative care methods for children without parental care. Includes comprehensive framework for collective action.

Examines institutional and family care in post-Tsunami Indonesia. Includes situational analysis, key issues, and recommendations.

General principles for the protection of trafficked children. Guidance is given on identification, appointment of a guardian, registration, interim care, case assessment, durable solutions, access to justice, costs, and research issues.

A situational analysis of policy and care surrounding children affected by HIV/AIDS in Lesotho. Includes a comprehensive, practice-oriented discussion of alternatives to residential care, placement procedures and standards of residential care.

This document provides an overview of the evolution of treatment family foster care in the US for youth with emotional or behavioral disorders, as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization or long-term residential treatment.

A set of standards for agencies that provide child care/day care services within the family home e.g. nannies, child minders, and babysitters.

Examines barriers to the development of a child protection system in Mongolia. Recommendations stress the need to develop integrated child protection as an essential service comprising a dedicated national agency and appropriate legal frameworks.

A brief 2-page overview of appropriate residential institution characteristics. Includes information on staffing, and the optimum size of each family-like unit.