In this study, the authors analyzed the literature on foster care in Poland and conducted a narrative questionnaire with an educator who simultaneously holds the responsibility for teaching youth in foster care autonomy in order to identify factors that affect educational and vocational plans that foster care charges have.

This doctoral research explores how the European Union membership has changed the post-communist heritage of institutional care in Bulgaria, focusing on the transformation of orphanages through the deinstitutionalization reform

This thesis takes a range of Russian Children’s Villages as its case study in an attempt to investigate foster parents’ perceptions of parenting and thus shed light on the present-day development of the alternative care system in Russia.

This video from BBC News features Russian writer Tamara Cheremnova who was born with Cerebral Palsy and placed in an orphanage as a child.

Keystone Human Services International seeks a Grants Manager for the upcoming USAID-funded “Copilaria Mea” project.

Keystone Human Services International seeks a Chief of Party (COP) for the upcoming USAID-funded “Copilaria Mea” project. The goal of “Copilaria Mea” is to increase the number of children living within appropriate, permanent, and protective family care and reduce the number of children growing up in institutional care and ensure the necessary legal and social conditions for raising and educating children in the family environment.

Keystone Human Services International seeks a Deputy Chief of Party for the upcoming USAID-funded “Copilaria Mea” project. The goal of “Copilaria Mea” is to increase the number of children living within appropriate, permanent, and protective family care and reduce the number of children growing up in institutional care and ensure the necessary legal and social conditions for raising and educating children in the family environment.

Завершується 1 етап реформи ДІ. Тому хочемо поділитися з вами основними здобутками реформи в цілому, реалізації ДІ в Житомирській області та здобутках інклюзивної освіти в Україні.

The aim of this study is to examine associations between signs of reactive attachment disorder (RAD) and disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED) and social functioning in children with a history of institutional rearing in early adolescence.

The alternative care for children newsletter provides updates following assessment workshops on care reform that were conducted in Armenia, Ghana, Moldova, and Uganda.