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Dafna Tener, Yoa Sorek, Ella Schwartz - Child and Family Social Work,

The current qualitative study examines the lived experiences of the women and children in the Mothers Unit from the subjective perspective of the women currently or previously involved in the programme and of the professionals working with them. 

Yafit Sulimani-Aidan - Child & Family Social Work,

This paper addresses the challenges and benefits of involving biological parents in group homes in Israel and presents various means to encourage their involvement in care.

Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz - Child Maltreatment in Residential Care,

This study analyzed the experiences of victimization by peers and staff of adolescents living in Israeli residential care settings.

Tehila Refaeli - Children and Youth Services Review,

The study presented in this article analyzed the life stories of 16 care leavers in Israel.

Noah Shpigel - Haaretz,

This article from Haaretz discusses the increasing problem of child labor in Israel.  According to the article, children are taken from their homes through an agreement with their parents and forced to beg at highway intersections for up to 12 hours a day.  

UNHCR,

Global Strategy – Beyond Detention 2014-2019 is a document released by UNHCR, which aims to support governments to end the detention of asylum-seekers and refugees.  

Michal Mahat-Shamir, Bilha Davidson Arad, Guy Shilo, Ronit Adler, Ronit D Leichtentritt - Journal of Social Work,

This qualitative study explores the unique views about the family system held by adolescents who have spent years in foster care in Israel. 

Yafit Sulimani-Aidan - The British Journal of Social Work,

 This paper aims to address the role of future expectations among young people leaving care in the context of resilience theory and emerging adulthood theory.

Debra Kamin - Time,

This article, from Time, describes the efforts of the Israeli government to evacuate babies of Israeli parents - born to surrogate mothers in Nepal - in the aftermath of the recent earthquake.

Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz, Mona Khoury-Kassabri - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study, based on a sample of 1,324 Jewish and Arab adolescents aged 11–19 in 32 RCSs, examines the prevalence and multilevel correlates of verbal (such as cursing) and indirect (such as social exclusion) forms of victimization by peers in residential care facilities.