Care and Support Programmes for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Achievements and Implications of HIV/AIDS Funded Project in Osun State, Nigeria

Adebola A. Adejimi, et al - World Journal of AIDS

This paper presents the achievements and implications of HIV Programme Development Project (HPDP) funded by World Bank on care and support services for OVC in Osun State, Nigeria.

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Returning children home from care: What can be learned from local authority data?

Elsbeth Neil, Lisanne Gitsels, June Thoburn - Child & Family Social Work

This study used 8 years of administrative data (on 2,208 care entrants), collected by one large English local authority, to examine how many children were returned home and to explore factors associated with stable reunification (not re-entering care for at least 2 years).

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Unaccompanied children in Flemish family foster care. Prevalence and associated factors of placement breakdown

FrankVan Holen, Cindy Blijkers, Lenny Trogh, Delphine West, Johan Vanderfaeillie - Children and Youth Services Review

This study aimed at investigating the incidence of placement breakdown in Flemish family foster care (Dutch speaking part of Belgium) for unaccompanied children (UC), and to explore the association of breakdown with foster child, foster family and case characteristics.

Policy as Social Ecological Resilience Scaffolding for Leaving Care: A Case Study of South Africa

John Pinkerton & Adrian Van Breda - Leaving Care and the Transition to Adulthood: International Contributions to Theory, Research, and Practice

This chapter’s authors argue that social policy on leaving care is a critical resilience process for promoting care leavers’ successful transition toward emerging adulthood.

Achieving Comprehensive Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

Heather J. Risser, Kimberly Svevo-Cianci, Elba Jung Karim, Alexandra E. Morford - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice

The authors of this study propose a strategy that increases system collaboration, leverages existing infrastructure, and adopts multi-source funding models that invest in prevention services to inoculate society against child abuse and neglect (CAN).