Regional Leading Models of Foster Care: Features of Organization

Elena Bauer, Olesya Istrofilova, Asil Salavatova - Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

This article summarizes and analyzes the successful regional experience of foster care in Russia; the authors presented models of interaction between authorities, children and educators, allowing to create conditions for the formation of a socially responsible person, focused on the values of education.

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Promoting child-friendly approaches in the area of migration: Standards, guidance and current practices

The Council of Europe

This compilation contributes to the implementation of the objectives of the Action Plan on protecting refugee and migrant children in Europe, adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, by bringing together international and European standards on child-friendly practices in the context of migration with illustrations from practice of the kind of initiatives, programmes and procedures that serve to implement these standards.

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A Human-Centered Review of the Algorithms used within the U.S. Child Welfare System

Devansh Saxena, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Pamela Wisniewski, Shion Guha

Using a human-centered algorithmic design approach, the authors of this study synthesize 50 peer-reviewed publications on computational systems used in the U.S. Child Welfare System (CWS) to assess how they were being developed, common characteristics of predictors used, as well as the target outcomes.

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Correlates of Entry into Congregate Care Among a Cohort of California Foster Youth

Lindsey Palmer, Eunhye Ahn, Dorian Traube, John Prindle, Emily Putnam-Hornstein - Children and Youth Services Review

In the current study, the authors identify specific child protective service experiences and mental and behavioral health characteristics that are predictive of moving from a family based foster placement to a congregate care placement.

Participation of Children in Decision-Making and their Psychosocial Wellbeing within the Child Protection System in St. Petersburg, Russia

Veronika Odinokova, Maia Rusakova -   The Journal of Social Policy Studies. Volume

This study raised the following research questions: To what extent is the right of a child separated from his or her natural parents to participate in decisionmaking respected? How does involvement in decision-making impact their psychosocial wellbeing?

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The structure and psychometric properties of the BERRI, an outcome measure for looked after children in residential care

Abigail Harris - University of Leicester

This study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the BERRI in its current form for use with Looked After Children (LAC) in residential care and to explore whether these properties might be enhanced through the extraction of factors.

Inclusive foster care: How foster parents support cultural and relational connections for Indigenous children

Carolyn Oliver - Child & Family Social Work

This article presents findings from a thematic analysis of interviews with 13 foster parents who participated in a mixed methods study exploring inclusive foster care in Canada - an approach requiring foster parents to engage with the family, community, and cultural life of the child for whom they care.

Sociological Ambivalence: Relationships between Birth Parents and Foster Parents

Margaretha Järvinen & Stine Tankred Luckow - Sociology

Inspired by Merton and Barber’s sociological theory on ambivalence, this article analyses ‘co-parenting’ between foster parents and birth parents as prototypes of ambivalent relationships; that is, relationships based on incompatible role requirements.

A Qualitative Examination of Coparenting Among Foster Parent Dyads

Morgan E. Cooley & Raymond E. Petren - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examined how foster parents worked together to parent foster children, how they described their roles and involvement with their foster children, how fostering impacted their coparenting and couple relationship, and their experiences and needs of working together with and within the foster care system.