What motivates highly trained child welfare professionals to stay or leave?

Lena Boraggina-Ballard, J. Sobeck, D. Honig - Children and Youth Services Review

This mixed-methods study used an integrated approach to investigate the drivers that impact the transition from student to child welfare professional and factors that motivated a highly trained cohort of child welfare professionals to stay or leave the child welfare workforce (post one–year employment).

From ‘the New Man’ to care‐leaver activists—Communist and contemporary discourses shaping 50 years of leaving care in Romania

Roxana Anghel - Child & Family Social Work

This paper explores discourses that have informed debates concerning care leavers in Romania over the last 50 years to understand why rights‐based reforms introduced in the mid‐2000s have been difficult to implement.

Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century

Samuel Keller, Thomas Gabriel, Clara Bombach - Child & Family Social Work

In a qualitative study in Switzerland, the authors of this article have conducted 37 narrative interviews with people who experienced residential care between 1950 and 1990. The analysis was based on a reconstructive life course perspective and grounded theory.

Leaving care in Norway in a historic and current perspective: As a function of the Nordic welfare model

Jan Storø - Child & Family Social Work

The article discusses two previously published articles by the author and two co‐authors, where the topics are the history of leaving care support in Norway and how the Nordic welfare model may represent a problematic frame for leaving care support.

Mapeo Comunitario

Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO)

Este documento ofrece guía en conducir un mapeo comunitario, una etapa en la creación de un sistema para atender a los niños y a las familias vulnerables.

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Community Mapping

Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO)

This document provides guidance on how to conduct a community mapping, a step in building a system to care for vulnerable children and families.

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