Data-informed recommendations for faith communities desiring to support vulnerable children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nicole Gilbertson Wilke & Amanda Hiles Howard - Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought

The current study provides data-informed recommendations for faith communities to support vulnerable families during the pandemic.

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Foster Kinship Navigator Program: A Two Study Mixed-Method Evaluation Project

Dr. Mark S. Preston - Preston Management and Organizational Consulting

This qualitative evaluation was to determine the level of fidelity of Clark County Nevada’s Foster Kinship navigator program to its navigator program manual and to ascertain if Foster Kinship’s navigator program for formal kinship families met the minimum standard for promising practice.

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Proximal outcomes of Connecting, an evidence-based, family-focused prevention program for caregivers of adolescents in foster care

Kevin P. Haggerty, Susan E. Barkan, Martie L. Skinner, Koren Hanson - Children and Youth Services Review

This study experimentally tested proximal outcomes of Connecting, a low-cost, self-directed, family-based substance-use prevention program for foster families.

Case Studies of Programmes to Promote and Protect Nurturing Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kristy Hackett, Kerrie Proulx, Carina Omoeva - FHI360 and Lego Foundation

This Case Study Report, prepared in partnership with World Health Organization (WHO) and the LEGO Foundation, describes the implementation experiences and emerging lessons of COVID-19 response strategies of seven programmes that prioritize nurturing care and early childhood development (ECD) in their work.

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