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This practice briefing aims to support carers and practitioners to talk and listen to children and young people in alternative care about Covid-19
This Note proposes a model New York state statute that will recognize the importance of children's visitation with incarcerated parents, implement “child friendly” visitation programs, facilitate training for prison staff, and provide transportation for children in major cities to the prison facilities.
Based on an analysis of 342 complaints concerning foster care reported to the Flemish Office of the Children's Rights Commissioner, the authors of this paper analysed which “alarming situations” are reported and highlight a number of pressing concerns from the perspective of parents.
For this study, semi-structured interviews with twelve birth parents and twenty six permanent carers took place in New South Wales, Australia. Inductive thematic analysis was used to identify a pattern in the nature of adult relationships. The themes of 1) getting to know each other; 2) making family time; and 3) a shared future are presented.
This study summarizes findings from caregiver usability tests, and provides a wide variety of caregiver-generated suggestions for improving foster and adoptive caregiver training curricula that are applicable to all caregiver training efforts.
This article outlines key research on how motivational interviewing is an approach that strengthens positive youth development and can improve youth’s engagement in skills, resources, and services as they age out of foster care.
Framed by relational dialectics theory, a contrapuntal analysis of 104 photolistings examined the discursive tensions of what it means to be an “adoptable” child.
In order to be better equipped to design interventions aimed at improving the educational outcomes of children for whom society has assumed responsibility, this study seeks to further our understanding about which factors that contribute to the educational disparities throughout the life course.
The aim of the study was to document mental health service use (counseling and medication) among youth in foster care, examine how prepared they feel to manage their mental health, and investigate predictors of service use and preparedness.
This review provides an overview of the associated characteristics with the quality of attachment between foster carers and foster children.