Promising practices - strengthening families and systems to prevent and reduce the institutional care of children

Karen Flanagan - Modern Day Slavery and Orphanage Tourism

This chapter from the book Modern Day Slavery and Orphanage Tourism highlights promising practice which aims to prevent and reduce the institutionalization of children at two levels: (1) systems and social work strengthening, and (2) family strengthening and gatekeeping.

Children in Care: Exploitation, Offending and the Denial of Victimhood in a Prosecution-led Culture of Practice

Julie Shaw, Sarah Greenhow - The British Journal of Social Work

The following article reports upon recent research that explored the perceptions of professionals of the issues that affect the sexual and criminal exploitation of children in care, along with a discussion of the effectiveness of current responses to these issues and the challenges that professionals face.

An Integrated Model of Family Strengths and Resilience: Theorizing at the Intersection of Indigenous and Western Paradigms

Ricardo O. Sánchez, Bethany L. Letiecq, Mark R. Ginsberg - Journal of Family Theory and Review

This article theorizes a new conceptual framework of family strengths and resilience emerging at the intersection of indigenous and Western approaches to family systems.

Reaching unconnected caregivers: Using a text-message education program to better understand how to support informal caregivers role in child development

Sherri C Widen, Marlene Orozco, Eileen Lai Horng, Susanna Loeb - Journal of Early Childhood Research

The authors of this study conducted a qualitative 2-year study to investigate informal caregivers’ motivations, assets, and needs.