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Drawing on data from a small qualitative study carried out in four child and youth care centres in a town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, this article argues that possible selves methods provide a useful tool with which to unpack the content of future focus, and in doing so identify contributors to resilience in care-leavers.
In this study, a qualitative enquiry, using grounded theory, was conducted to establish what factors dissuade involuntarily childless black South Africans from legally adopting abandoned children.
This narrative documents the experience of researchers with the objective of documenting lessons learned in the Amajuba Child Health and Wellbeing Research Project, a collaboration between researchers from two universities and a community in South Africa which measured the impact of orphaning due to HIV/AIDS on South African households between 2004 and 2007.
This chapter looks at what the international law instruments recommend regarding the appointment of legal guardians. It provides an audit of the instruments which are applicable to the regulation of the appointment of legal guardians for children both at the global and regional levels.
This paper serves to illustrate challenges in research on care-leavers and the various ways that research results can be interpreted by drawing on data from a study being conducted in a residential care programme in South Africa.
This article examines the care experiences of former looked‐after children from a residential care setting in South Africa.
The Amajuba Child Health and Wellbeing Research Project measured the impact of orphaning due to HIV/AIDS on South African households between 2004 and 2007. Community engagement was a central component of the project and extended through 2010. This article describes researcher engagement with the community to recruit participants, build local buy-in, stimulate interest in study findings, and promote integration of government social welfare services for families and children affected by HIV/AIDS.
This case study is one in a series of case studies highlighting different aspects of a case management system and referral mechanisms utilized by OVC programs. The case study looks at the work of the Children in Distress Network (CINDI) in the uMgungundlovu District of KwaZulu-Natal Province (KZN) of South Africa.
925 children in Gauteng, South Africa have been left in institutions, primarily child and youth care centres (CYCC), as they await placement into foster care by the Gauteng social development department, according to this article.
This article discusses efforts in 3 countries to develop simple, valid tools to quantify and classify economic vulnerability status.