Feasibility and acceptability of a home‐based intervention to promote nurturing interactions and healthy behaviours in early childhood: The Amagugu Asakhula pilot study

Catherine E. Draper, Steven J. Howard, Tamsen J. Rochat - Child: Care, Health and Development

The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a home‐based intervention—Amagugu Asakhula—to promote nurturing interactions and healthy behaviours with the caregivers of preschool children.

The experience of carers of children with cerebral palsy living in rural areas of Ghana who have received no rehabilitation services: A qualitative study

Gifty Gyamah Nyante & Christine Carpenter - Child: Care, Health and Development

This study aims to explore the experiences of carers of children with cerebral palsy living in rural areas of Ghana who have received no rehabilitation services.

How Australia can invest in children and return more: A new look at the $15b cost of late action

William Teager, Stacey Fox and Neil Stafford - . Early Intervention Foundation, The Front Project and CoLab at the Telethon Kids Institute

The purpose of this report is to: reveal how much Australian governments spend every year because children and young people have reached crisis point and highlight the opportunity of earlier and wiser investment in children to improve the lives of young Australians while reducing pressure on government budgets.

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The National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) Implementation Lessons Learned Webinar Recording

QIC-AG

The National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) is a five-year project working with eight sites that will implement evidence-based interventions or develop and test promising practices which if proven effective can be replicated or adapted in other child welfare jurisdictions. This webinar presented learning from the project related to staffing and staff support, recruitment and retention, cost/sustainability, stakeholder collaboration, and logistics.

Review of Vulnerability Assessment Methods for Reintegration and Prevention of Child Separation

Whitney Moret, FHI 360

In this report, which has been prepared to inform planning in the USAID-funded ASPIRES project, the authors present a review of some of the existing tools used to assess vulnerability to either separation or negative child well-being outcomes with attention to economic security for the purposes of targeting households for program participation and matching them to appropriate interventions.

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