Children with Traumatic Separation: Information for Professionals
This guidance from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network provides information and suggestions for helping children who experience traumatic separation from a caregiver.
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Dear Volunteer
This animated video from Forget Me Not and The Umbrella Foundation, tells the story of a young child placed in an orphanage and highlights the pain and trauma of family separation, the impacts of a revolving door of volunteers on children in institutions, and the ways in which volunteering fuels the orphanage industry.
Report of the Ad Hoc Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care
This Report was drafted by a group of independent experts convened by Commissioner of the European Commission, Vladimír Špidla, in February 2009 to address the issues of institutional care reform in their complexity. The report addresses recommendations to Member States which have the main responsibility for action in this area.
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Country Care Review: Norway
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: Lesotho
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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Country Care Review: Angola
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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What Social Service Professionals Need to Know to Support Guardianship Families
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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Preparing and Supporting Foster Parents Who Adopt
This document provides an overview of the benefits, costs, and practice implications for adoptions from foster care in the US.
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CARE: The development of an intervention for kinship carers with teenage children
The study addresses the needs of Scottish kinship carers of teenage children who have been identified as being in need of extra support.
Young people under youth justice supervision with varying child protection histories: An analysis of group differences.
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.