Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on children
This policy brief provides a deeper analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and offers immediate and sustained actions for the attention of governments and policymakers.
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Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond Journal: Special Issue on Deinstitutionalisation: Policies, Strategies, Practices and Implications for South Asia
This special issue of the Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond journal, guest-edited by Delia Pop, Tessa Boudrie and Mark Riley of Hope and Homes for Children, focuses on deinstitutionalization in South Asia.
Webinar Recording: Child Welfare and Pandemics: What We Know and What We Can Do
This special presentation by Barbara Fallon of the University of Toronto and Delphine Collin-Vezina of McGill University is the first in a series of free ISPCAN webinars focused on the effects of COVID-19 on children, families, and systems of care.
Webinar Recording: Managing the Psychological Impact of COVID-19: Strategies for Professionals Working with Youth
This webinar addresses the risk factors of the current crisis on youth and families, the challenges that professionals like therapists, psychologists, and social workers are facing; and tips and strategies to manage the emotional impact of COVID-19 on youth, families, and professionals using telemedicine and other novel techniques.
Webinar Recording: Parenting and COVID-19 Global Resources
In this webinar, Jamie Lachman, co-founder of the Parenting for Lifelong Health initiative, provides an overview of the open-source online COVID-19 parenting resources initiative and the current response to COVID-19, including a presentation of current resources to promote child protection and different strategies that are being used to disseminate them worldwide.
Compassion Fatigue and Resilience among Child Protection Service Workers in South Africa
The aim of this quantitative, inferential research was to investigate how working with vulnerable and abused children and families has an impact on child protection service workers in South Africa.
Parent–Child Interaction Therapy: Findings from an exploratory qualitative study with practitioners and foster parents
This exploratory study examines practitioners’ and foster parents’ perceptions on use of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy in child welfare.
Exploring college student identity among young people with foster care histories and mental health challenges
This study reports the perspectives of college students with foster care histories and self-identified mental health concerns about how these factors relate to their post-secondary academic experiences.
The effects of autonomy support and psychological capital on readiness for independent living through personal growth initiative among youth in out‐of‐home care
This study explored the effects of the factors on independent living readiness among youth under out‐of‐home care. Specifically, this study focused on the effects of caregivers' autonomy support and psychological capital on independent living readiness through personal growth initiative.