How can group-based savings programs provide support for vulnerable families and their children?

E. Namey, S. Zissette, W. Okello, D. Onena, L. Laumann - FHI 360, ASPIRES, USAID, AVSI, and ChildFund International

This poster presents the findings of an assessment of two Family Care projects in Uganda that implemented savings groups as part of integrated family and economic strengthening interventions with families at-risk of a child separating.

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The Effects of Armed Conflict on Children

Ayesha Kadir, Sherry Shenoda, Jeffrey Goldhagen, Shelly Pitterman - American Academy of Pediatrics

In this Technical Report, the authors review the available knowledge on the effects of armed conflict on children and support the recommendations in the accompanying Policy Statement on children and armed conflict.

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A Critical Overview Of The Significance Of Power And Power Relations In Practice with Children In Foster Care: Evidence From An Irish Study

MCGregor, Caroline, Devaney, Carmel and Moran, Lisa - Child care in practice

This paper is based on findings from an Irish study of permanence and stability outcomes for children in long-term care which involved biographical narrative interviews with 27 children, young people, parents and foster carers.

A reasonably large review of operationalization in child maltreatment research: Assessment approaches and sources of information in youth samples

Yo Jackson, Austen McGuire, Angela M. Tunno, P. Kalani Makanui - Child Abuse & Neglect

This paper reviews research on child maltreatment over a recent 10-year span to identify trends in maltreatment assessment and operationalization.

Child Protection Across Worlds: Young People’s Challenges Within and Outside of Child Protection Programmes in UK and Zanzibar Schools

Rachel Burr & Franziska Fay - Global Childhoods beyond the North-South Divide

This chapter examines Global North and South similarities in children and young people’s reactions to school-led child protection programmes.

Attachment to Parents and Aggressiveness in Adopted Adolescents: A Multi‐Sample Comparison Study

Barbara Torres‐Gomez, Itziar Alonso‐Arbiol, Miriam Gallarin - Journal of Research on Adolescence

This study examined adopted adolescents’ levels of attachment security to parents and aggressiveness as compared to those of community nonadopted adolescents and of clinical nonadopted adolescents.