Country Care Review: Panama
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Country Care Review: Montenegro
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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The effects of early institutionalization on emotional face processing: evidence for sparing via an experience-dependent mechanism
This study employed event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the neural correlates of facial emotion processing in 12-year-old children who took part in a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an intervention for early institutionalization.
Bridging Two Worlds: Supporting Newcomer and Refugee Youth
Bridging Two Worlds provides teachers, school administrators and counsellors in Canada with the knowledge and practical resources to deliver more informed and culturally responsive career development and guidance to newcomer and refugee youth from Kindergarten to Grade 12.
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Effects of early institutionalization on emotion processing in 12-year-old youth
This study examined facial emotion recognition in 12-year-olds in a longitudinally followed sample of children with and without exposure to early life psychosocial deprivation (institutional care).
Caring for children: Relationships matter
In this essay from South African Child Gauge 2017, the authors seek to respond to the following questions: Why are caring relationships important for children’s development? What do we know about systems of care for children in South Africa? What are the factors that can compromise care? What are the interventions that can improve the quality of caring relationships?
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Estimating minimum adequate foster care costs for children in the United States
The objectives of this study are to: use the methodology of a 2007 study to establish foster care minimum adequate rates for children (MARC) based on the child's age and geographical location in every state; update the MARC with cost of living adjustments to 2016; examine changes in gaps between the MARC and the current foster care rates; and identify states that have made increases to their reimbursement rates, relative to the MARC over time.
Realising Rights? The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Court
This report by the Child Rights International Network (CRIN) draws out the ways the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been used around the world to challenge abuses of children’s rights, but also where it has been misunderstood and misapplied by national courts.
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Maternal incarceration, child protection, and infant mortality: a descriptive study of infant children of women prisoners in Western Australia
This study draws on linked administrative data to describe the exposure of children aged less than 2 years to maternal imprisonment in Western Australia, their contact with child protection services, and infant mortality rates.
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Young adults’ perspectives on their experiences of different types of placement in Romania
This study explores the childhood experiences and transitions to adulthood of 39 Romanian care leavers and adoptees, born around 1989 - 1990.
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