What Social Service Professionals Need to Know to Support Guardianship Families

National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG)

This guidance is designed for social service professionals to better serve guardianship families by learning about the dynamics of the family’s permanent relationships, factors that influenced their decision-making in choosing the guardianship option, and how those decisions might affect the family’s current situation.

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Young people under youth justice supervision with varying child protection histories: An analysis of group differences.

Malvaso, Catia, Delfabbro, Paul, Day, Andrew and Nobes, Gavin - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

This study reports the characteristics and needs of 2,045 young people who were under supervision in secure custody or detention in South Australia between 1995 and 2012 according to the level of exposure to the child protection system in an Australian jurisdiction.

Psycho-Pedagogical Support of Foster, Substitute and Guardian Families at School on Issues Relating to Socialization of Orphan Children (in Russian)

Ovcharenko L.Yu., Doroshenko T.N - ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКИЙ КАПИТАЛ

The article deals with the problem of socialization of orphan children in the process of relationships between the individual and a society based on the implementation of existing individual features in social learning, self-knowledge and self-realization, that provides in turn social knowledge, social skills and social experience of the individual.

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‘We all belonged in there somewhere’: young people’s and carers’ experiences of a residential sibling contact event

Pamela Parker & Gracie McLaven - Adoption & Fostering

This article discusses caregivers’ and young people’s experiences of a novel approach to sibling contact, Siblings Forever, an event devised to overcome some of the tensions and frustrations in usual arrangements.

Preserving and memorialising relationships: exploring young people’s experiences of foster care through the lens of social capital

Justine Rogers - Adoption & Fostering

This article presents findings from research into how young people growing up in foster care in the UK manage the relationships in their social networks and gain access to social capital.