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Save the Children,

This Album on Kinship Care is a compilation of the works of Syrian refugee children in kinship care and their adult caregivers who took part in the participatory action research undertaken by Save the Children and the Information and Research Center – King Hussein Foundation in Jordan in 2014 in the Zaatari Camp and in the city of Amman.

Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz,

This study explores the prevalence and multilevel risk factors of 1,309 Israeli Arab and Jewish adolescents’ experiences of unwelcome sexual behaviors by peers in residential care settings (RCSs) for at-risk children.

Zeina Allouche - The Legal Agenda,

This article offers commentary by alternative care expert Zeina Allouche outlining the responsibilities of care centres and the government of Lebanon under international law in regards to the abuses that occur in institutional settings. 

UNICEF Tunisie,

La Cooperation italienne et l'UNICEF ont lancé un projet dédié à la désinstitutionalisation des enfants privés de milieu familial en Tunisie. Le projet intervient dans le domaine de la protection de l'enfance, et vise à contribuer à ce que les enfants vulnérables et notamment les enfants nés hors mariage, les enfants et les adolescents en situation de danger ou handicapés puissent jouir de leurs droits et bénéficier d’un environnement familial de qualité, propice à leur garantir un bien-être et un développement harmonieux. 

Pr Anne-Marie Moulin - Directeur de recherche CNRS UMR,

Rapport de capitalisation sur le volet médicosocial du projet « Tamkine-Migrants » 2011 – 2014 d’appui à la prise en charge de femmes migrantes enceintes et de leurs enfants.

 

Sarah Sagely Klotz, Faith to Action Initiative,

In this opinion piece, Sarah Sagley Klotz shares her experience of growing up in a small Christian community in the US, learning about the needs of the world from sermons and videos, and later fully realizing the hardships of vulnerable and orphaned children in the developing world through her travels to Mongolia and North Africa. 

Tamar Dinisman,

Many young people rely on their parents when they transition into adulthood.  Young people transitioning out of alternative care rarely have that option. 

Doha International Family Institution – International Conference ,

This is a Call to Action issued by the Doha International Family Institute commemorating the International Year of the Family.  

Mona Khoury-Kassabri, Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz,

Physical victimization by peers was examined among 1,324 Jewish and Arab adolescents, aged 11 to 19, residing in 32 residential care settings (RCS) for children at-risk in Israel.

Marc Winokur, Amy Holtan, Keri E. Batchelder,

This systematic review published by the Campbell Collaboration reviewed controlled experimental and quasi experimental studies in which children removed from the home for maltreatment and subsequently placed in kinship care were compared with children placed in non-kinship foster care for child welfare outcomes in the domains of well-being, permanency, or safety.