A critical analysis of the creation of separated care structures for unaccompanied refugee minors

Ilse Derluyn - Children and Youth Services Review

Based on an analysis of the evolutions in the way the care structures for unaccompanied minors were set up in Belgium, the authors of this article critically reflect on the underlying rationales that justify the particularities of these structures, hereby also reflecting about the implications of these rationales for professionals and researchers.

Sexual abuse and exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children in Greece: Identifying risk factors and gaps in services during the European migration crisis

Vasileia Digidiki & Jacqueline Bhabha - Children and Youth Services Review

The present study explores sexual abuse and exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children in Greece, and the risk factors associated with their occurrence.

Unaccompanied children seeking safe haven: Providing care and supporting well-being of a vulnerable population

Julie M. Linton, Elizabeth Kennedy, Alan Shapiro, Marsha Griffin - Children and Youth Services Review

The purpose of this article is to describe the impact of current and evolving immigration policy on the health of unaccompanied children, to delineate barriers to care and challenges they face prior to gaining legal relief, and to suggest policy recommendations that support health and safety for them from the point of apprehension to and through achieving legal status.

Running to stand still: Trauma symptoms, coping strategies, and substance use behaviors in unaccompanied migrant youth

Jodi Berger Cardoso - Children and Youth Services Review

The current study implemented a concurrent, parallel mixed methods research design, whereby quantitative (survey) and qualitative (focus groups) data were collected simultaneously to explore: (a) the frequency of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, suicidal ideation, and substance use, (b) trauma exposure at pre-migration, migration, and post-migration, and (c) how youth may cope with these adversities.

The Shame is Ours: Forced Adoptions of the Babies of Unmarried Mothers in Post-war Canada

Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology

This report describes Canada's history of forcibly removing children from mothers, particularly unwed mothers, and placing them in adoptive families. It compares this history to the similar Australian context and offers recommendations for offering healing to mothers and children who were harmed by this practice.

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Foster Care Alumni Achievement in Higher Education: the Role of Trauma

Joshua D. Bishop, Kristen Prock, Jisuk Seon, Amanda T. Woodward, Anne K. Hughes, Sister Miriam MacLean - Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma

This cross-sectional study uses a random sample of forty-six foster care alumni from a Midwestern public university to explore the relationship between exposure to trauma and post-secondary academic achievement. 

The contribution of resilience to one-year independent living outcomes of care-leavers in South Africa

Adrian D. van Breda & Lisa Dickens - Children and Youth Services Review

This article draws on data from the only longitudinal study on care-leaving in South Africa. It uses resilience theory to explain the differences observed in independent living outcomes of care-leavers, one year after leaving the residential care of Girls and Boys Town.