The next chapter: a practical guide for individuals, families, communities, social workers, and organizations supporting indigenous youth aging-out of care

Mahikwa, Robert - University of Victoria

This research utilized Indigenous methodologies rooted in oral traditions, storytelling practices, and the Medicine Wheel teachings to examine how individuals, families, communities, social workers, and organizations can assist Indigenous youth who are aging-out of foster care and are transitioning into adulthood.

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Social Support and Relationships with Family and Friends

Susan M. Love and Theresa Knott - Handbook of Parenting and Child Development Across the Lifespan

This chapter from the Handbook of Parenting and Child Development Across the Lifespan explores five domains of research connecting social support and parenting: (1) intergenerational transmission of parenting; (2) community and neighborhood; (3) marriage quality; (4) grandmothers; and (5) offline and online friends.

Maintain, strengthen, expand: How the 2021-2027 EU budget can end the institutionalisation of children in Europe

Opening Doors for Europe’s Children

These recommendations have been developed by the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign and are based on the work of the campaign since 2016, calling for a stronger commitment to maintain, strengthen and expand the use of EU funds for deinstitutionalisation reforms in Europe.

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Comparing reunified and residential care facility children's wellbeing in Ghana: The role of hope

Spencer L. James & Jini L. Roby - Children and Youth Services Review

Using data from Ghana—a country that has initiated reintegration of children from residential care facilities, therefore providing a natural opportunity for comparative research—the authors of this study from the Children and Youth Services Review used hope, whether the child has been reunified with family/caregivers or remained in the care facility, and a statistical interaction of the two, along with controls, to predict the Child Status Index, an internationally-established measure of child wellbeing.

Exploring the Use of an Emancipation Checklist for Older Youth (18‐21) Exiting Foster Care

Alicia Summers, Corey Shdaimah, and Victoria A. Knoche - Juvenile and Family Court Journal

This paper examines the efforts of a court to improve outcomes for older youth who are exiting foster care by implementing an Emancipation Checklist (EC) to guide discussion around 12 stability indicators thought to improve youth transition to adulthood (e.g., education, employment).

Emotions and Belonging: Constructing Individual Experience and Organizational Functioning in the Context of an Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Program

Asta Rau - Qualitative Sociology Review

This article examines the findings of a mixed-method implementation-evaluation of a local non-governmental organization's Orphans and Vulnerable Children program.