This article provides a historical context and describes numerous provisions of the family group conference that protect participants and the proceedings. It then describes applications of FGC‐like approaches in the United States where practice models and policies—not laws—guide the implementation of such approaches.

In this article the authors look for a suitable method which takes account of power relations while investigating young people's perspectives on their everyday lives.

The current study provides a more nuanced account of foster youth with disabilities’ transitions into adulthood.

A qualitative program evaluation was conducted, including focus groups with 36 parenting young women who had participated in Passport to Parenting (P2P) initiative services and interviews with 11 key staff of the three partnering agencies.

This qualitative study explored the accounts of 50 residential childcare staff in Saudi Arabia, aiming to identify ways in which staff and residential institutions may function as attachment objects for the children in their care.

This study aimed to examine how organizational factors, particularly leadership, affect child welfare worker turnover intentions in order to help child welfare agencies establish a practice model that prevents the turnover of qualified workers.

This article describes an integrated three-phase approach to the identification of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and psychiatric comorbidity for children and youth in care, consisting of: (1) completion of a standardized neurobehavioral screening tool by a child protection worker (CPW); (2) assessment by a pediatrician, including facial measurements and; (3) integration of findings in a psychiatric assessment.

In this study, comparative analysis and linear mixed modeling with propensity score matching were used to identify the extent to which students involved with child protection service (CPS) utilized an inter-district open enrollment option and to examine their academic achievement before and after switching schools.

This study employed a mixed-methods approach to examine process findings from a randomized control trial from the first county-level Pay for Success initiative, Partnering for Family Success.

The current study begins to address a gap in the literature by examining the association of income instability and child maltreatment in a sample of low-income families deflected from Child Protective Services.