Challenging intellectual, behavioral and educational prerequisites for interventions aimed at school aged children in foster care. A compilation of Swedish test results

Rikard Tordön, Marie Bladh, Carl Göran Svedin, Gunilla Sydsjö - Children and Youth Services Review

The purpose of this study was to outline prerequisites for interventions aimed at school performance for children in foster care, related to those in normal population studies.

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Risk and Protective Factors Contributing to Homelessness among Foster Care Youth: An Analysis of the National Youth in Transition Database

Peggy Kelly - Children and Youth Services Review

Using data from the U.S. National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD), combined with the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System (AFCARS), the present study provides an analysis of the risk and protective factors contributing to homelessness among a nationwide sample of foster care youth at age 21, 29% of whom had experienced homelessness.

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Racism as trauma: Experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian child protection practitioners

Fiona Oates - Child Abuse & Neglect

A strategy gaining traction to address the disproportionate representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the statutory child protection system is to recruit more Indigenous practitioners into statutory child protection work. This paper reports on results from a recent doctoral study which explored the experiences of Indigenous child protection practitioners based in Queensland, Australia.

Cross-Over Youth and Youth Criminal Justice Act Evidence Law: Discourse Analysis and Reasons for Law Reform

Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich - Manitoba Law Journal

Adolescents who are involved with child welfare systems, either in foster care or under child welfare supervision, across Canada, disproportionately “cross-over” to youth criminal justice proceedings. This article critically considers disadvantages “cross-over” youths face under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA).

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Migratory trauma in unaccompanied minors in Africa. Analysis of vulnerability and adaptation factors

Dorottya Szikra, Rahmeth Radjack, Kossigan Kokou-Kpolou, Thierry Baubet, Marie Rose Moro - L'information psychiatrique

This study explores conceptions of the notion of unaccompanied minors (UM) in Senegal and analyzes the resources and coping mechanisms of these minors when confronted with migratory traumas.

The impact of parental labour migration on left‐behind children's educational and psychosocial outcomes: Evidence from Romania

Alina Botezat & Friedhelm Pfeiffer - Population, Space and Place

This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on the education, physical, and mental health of left‐behind children aged 11 to 15 years in Romania, a country where increasingly more children have parents working abroad.

The factors associated with being left-behind children in China: Multilevel analysis with nationally representative data

Lian Tong, Qiong Yan, Ichiro Kawachi - PLoS One

Using nationally representative monitoring data for migrant workers aged 15 to 59 years in China, this study sought to estimate the prevalence of left-behind children (LBC) in each province, and to examine risk factors being left behind at both the individual and provincial level.

Increasing child protection workforce retention through promoting a relational-reflective framework for resilience

Erica Russ, Bob Lonne, Deborah Lynch - Child Abuse & Neglect

This Australian longitudinal, qualitative study explored child protection worker perceptions and experiences of resilience to inform understandings of worker resilience, and implications for worker functioning and workforce retention.