This article explores the mental health outcomes for unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) and offers recommendations for improving psychological wellbeing.

A Familiar Face: Violence in the lives of children and adolescents uses the most current data to shed light on four specific forms of violence: violent discipline and exposure to domestic abuse during early childhood; violence at school; violent deaths among adolescents; and sexual violence in childhood and adolescence. 

This Handbook explores early childhood interventions and policy through 36 chapters in various country contexts, including chapters on early childhood services for children in care. 

International Foster Care Organisation's 2017 World Conference “Setting Sail from a Safe Port: Giving our children confidence to move forward with safe and permanent relationships” ​will take place in Valletta, Malta from 1st to 4th November 2017.

The Childonomics project has developed an instrument that can help to reflect on the long-term social and economic return of investing in children and families.

The United Nations Security Council has urged countries and non-State actors to allow children access to education and healthcare during and post-conflicts, according to this report from the UN News Centre. 

The Editors for a Special Issue of Emerging Adulthood focused on care-leaving processes and services in Africa are seeking relevant research papers to be included in the issue.

Closing date: October 27, 2017

Location: Washington DC

Organization: New Editions Consulting, Inc.

Job Years of Experience: 10

To increase knowledge of foster children’s needs and how these are conceptualized, this paper presents a systematic literature review. 

The International Committee of the Red Cross has released a comment on the Global Compacts including three key messages, one of which relates to the detention of children and family separation.