Parenting Support

Families will require support when faced with problems they are unable to overcome on their own. Ideally support should come from existing networks, such as extended family, religious leaders, and neighbours. Where such support is not available or sufficient, additional family and community services are required. Such services are particularly important for kinship, foster and adoptive caretakers, and child headed households in order to prevent separation and address abuse and exploitation of children. It is also vital for children affected by HIV/AIDS and armed conflict, and those children living on the street.

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Ryan D. Davidson, Claire S. Tomlinson, Connie J. Beck, Anne M. Bowen - Children and Youth Services Review,

This article aims to identify risk and protective factors associated with families returning to the US child welfare system within a social ecological framework, to identify gaps in the current literature, and to discuss areas for future research.

Elizabeth Kiely, Nicola O'Sullivan, Mary Tobin - Children and Youth Services Review,

The paper presents findings from a study of centre-based supervised child-parent contact. The purpose of the research was twofold; to ascertain the views and experiences of birth fathers on all aspects of the supervised child-parent contact they experienced in a centre; to find out from centre supervisors their views of engaging fathers and supervising contact, and from key stakeholders and referral agents (a community project worker, a child protection social worker, Guardian ad Litems, a family law solicitor) their perceptions of the supervised contact provision in the centre.

Children in Families,

Sreyny Sorn, manager of the ABLE Project at Children in Families, gave a presentation at a side event at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 5 March, 2019.

Sharynne Hamilton, Deborah Cleland, Valerie Braithwaite - Community Development Journal,

Drawing on in-depth interviews with fifteen community workers, who represent nine agencies assisting families with child protection issues in a small jurisdiction in Australia, the authors of this article show how the stigma attached to ‘bad’ parents is passed on to the community workers who are supporting them.

Johnny S. Kim, Becci A. Akin, Jody Brook - Developmental Child Welfare,

This study examined the effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) on child well-being and family functioning outcomes for child welfare involved parents.

Emily Vargas-Barón, Jason Small, Donald Wertlieb, Hollie Hix-Small, Rocío Gómez Botero, Kristel Diehl, Paola Vergara, Paul Lynch - RISE Institute ,

This report presents the findings of a global survey designed to map current implementation of Inclusive Early Childhood Development (IECD) and Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) programs, among other objectives, and outlines recommendations based on those findings.

Elizabeth Wall-Wieler PhD, Kathleen Kenny MHSc, Janelle Lee BSc, Kellie Thiessen RM RN PhD, Margaret Morris MD MEd, Leslie L. Roos PhD - CMAJ,

The objective of this study was to examine prenatal care among women with a history of having a child placed in out-of-home care, and whether their care differed from care among women who did not.

Jangmin Kim, Mark Trahan, Jennifer Bellamy, James A. Hall - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study utilized administrative data that reviewed child welfare cases in a Midwestern state in the U.S. to examine interactions between teamwork and parent engagement associated with the permanency of children in out-of-home care.

Nair Elizabeth Zárate-Alva and Josefina Sala-Roca - Children and Youth Services Review,

The aim of this study is to explore whether girls who are in residential care have fewer emotional skills than their peers, and if so, whether these girls have similar socio-emotional skills to girls who also experience disadvantaged environments but live with their families.

Clara Siagian, Sandra Arifiani, Putri Amanda and Santi Kusumaningrum - Social Sciences,

This open access article explores the construction of childhood and parenthood in rural communities in Indonesia based on a series of focus group discussions with service providers, community decision makers, and paraprofessionals; a group that the authors refer to as “frontline providers”.