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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Monica L. Oxford, Maureen Marcenko, Charles B. Fleming, Mary Jane Lohr, Susan J. Spieker - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study reports on the findings from a randomized control trial of a 10-week home visiting program, Promoting First Relationships® (Kelly, Sandoval, Zuckerman, & Buehlman, 2008), for a subsample of 43 reunified birth parents of toddlers that were part of the larger trial.

Katherine A. Hardcastle, Mark A. Bellis, Karen Hughes and Dinesh Sethi,

This handbook authored by the World Health Organization Europe and Liverpool John Moores University – based on a series of interviews with the world's leading experts on preventing child maltreatment – provides practical information to policy-makers, practitioners and others on implementing prevention programmes. The handbook describes key principles for selecting and delivering programmes, and important practical considerations, including resources and technical support. 

USAID,

This two-page brief from USAID describes the “Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families” project, a project that is part of 4Children that “focuses on strengthening family care among households at high risk of children separating or where children can be reintegrated after having been placed in residential care.”

Faith to Action Initiative,

This webinar from Faith to Action Initiative presents key strategies for expanding the capacity of families to care for orphans and vulnerable children. 

Child Trends and Social Trends Institute,

This annual report of the World Family Map Project shares the latest data on 16 indicators of family structure, family socioeconomics, family processes, and family culture in multiple countries as well as an original essay focusing on one important aspect of contemporary family life.

Mimmie Claudine Ngum Chi Watts, Pranee Liamputtong, and Celia Mcmichael - BMC Public Health,

This research aimed to solicit the lived experiences of African Australian young refugee women who have experienced early motherhood in Australia.

Lumos,

This animated video from Lumos, narrated by Lumos founder J.K. Rowling, illustrates the “tragic consequences of orphanage care,” and argues that more can and should be done to support families to care for their children, eliminating the use of institutional care. 

Kate Morris, Sue White, Paula Doherty, and Lisa Warwick - Children & Family Social Work,

This paper draws on a British Academy (BA) funded study exploring social workers’ conceptions of family using a vignette and focus groups. 

Kelsey Nielsen, Co-Founder of Abide Family Center - Faith to Action Initiative Archives,

This post from the Faith to Action Initiative highlights the work of the Abide Family Center in Uganda, which helps to keep families together.

Karine Dubois-Comtois, Annie Bernier, George M. Tarabulsy, Chantal Cyr, Diane St-Laurent, Anne-Sophie Lanctôt, Janie St-Onge, Ellen Moss, Marie-Julie Béliveau - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study investigated different environmental and contextual factors associated with maltreated children's adjustment in foster care in Quebec, Canada.