Families Offering Children Unfailing Support (FOCUS) Fatherhood Program: Changing Child Welfare through Child Support and Parenting Skills

M. Angela Nievar, Suhasini Ramisetty-Mikler, Mahasin F. Saleh, Natasha Cabrera - Children and Youth Services Review

The Fathers Offering Children Unfailing Support (FOCUS) program serves fathers referred by Child Protective Services and the Attorney General’s Office. The goal of the authors of this paper was to investigate changes in fathers’ report of parenting involvement and fathers’ instrumental support through child support payments through two separate studies of community samples.

Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space: Institutional Change in Russia

Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen, Anna Tarasenko, Anna Pivovarova

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system. It focuses on the major shift in Russia’s child welfare policy: deinstitutionalisation of the system of children’s homes inherited from the Soviet era and an increase in fostering and adoption.

Barriers and solutions: Australian Indigenous practitioners on addressing disproportionate representation of Indigenous Australian children known to statutory child protection

Fiona Oates - AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

This article outlines the views of Indigenous practitioners collected as part of a doctoral study exploring the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners who undertake child protection work in Australia.

Deconstructing doing well; what can we learn from care experienced young people in England, Denmark and Norway?

Elisiv Bakketeig, Janet Boddy, Tonje Gundersen, Jeanette Østergaard, Fidelma Hanrahan - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper addresses the conceptualization of ‘outcomes’ for care experienced people through an in-depth longitudinal study of 75 young adults in Denmark, England and Norway.

Stressful life events and delinquency among Chinese rural left-behind adolescents: The roles of resilience and separation duration

Quanquan Wang & Xia Liu - Children and Youth Services Review

The current study aimed to clarify the relationship between stressful life events and delinquency among left-behind adolescents by examining the moderating roles of resilience and separation duration in this process.

Care leaver needs and accessibility: Findings from the first large‐scale project in Switzerland

Marion Jarczok, Beatrice Knecht Krüger, Tanja Mitrovic, Gomera Gérard, Andreas Jud - Child & Family Social Work

This study investigated Switzerland's first large‐scale care leaver programme and analysed associations between care leavers' needs and contactability in a sample of 459 care leavers.

Mental Health Service Interventions for Left-behind Children in Mainland China: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Miao Wang, Rebeccah Sokol, Hui Luan, Brian E. Perron, Bryan G. Victor, Shiyou Wue - Children and Youth Services Review

This study aimed to systematically review experimental studies of interventions that promote mental health wellbeing of left-behind children (LBC) in mainland China.