Rural Child Welfare Practice: Issue Brief
This issue brief highlights the importance of understanding the concerns and needs of children and families in rural communities in the United States
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Strengthening Families, Ending Institutional Care: Recommendations to the European Union on Post-2020 Multi-Annual Financial Framework
This report from Opening Doors for Europe's Children presents recommendations to the EU on how best to include deinstitutionalization and children's care as a part of the next multiannual financial framework.
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Stress and coping mechanisms among adolescents living in orphanages: An experience from Klang Valley, Malaysia
This study aimed to assess both the prevalence of stress and the coping mechanisms as well as identify the predictors of stress levels among adolescents in Malaysian orphanages.
The Process of De-institutionalisation and Development of Residential Care in Bulgaria
The article aims to show the process of deinstitutionalisation in Bulgaria.
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Mobile Services in Bulgaria as Deinstitutionalization (DI) tool and beyond
This text describes “promising practice” mobile services for children and parents suffering abuse, neglect poverty and disability in Bulgaria.
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Social and vocational integration of young people leaving residential care: Care-Leavers Integration Programme (CLIP) Ten years later
This paper evaluates a program started by International Social Service for social and professional realisation of young people leaving care (Care Leavers Integration Programme, CLIP), ten years after the program began.
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Adult psychosocial outcomes of men and women who were looked-after or adopted as children: prospective observational study
The objective of this study was to investigate whether men and women who were looked-after (in public care) or adopted as children are at increased risk of adverse psychological and social outcomes in adulthood.
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Key factors and characteristics of successful resource parents who care for older youth: A systematic review of research
This study implemented a systematic review process to identify the personal characteristics, skills and abilities of successful resource families that maximize foster and adoptive parent retention and maximize placement permanency of teens placed in out of home care.
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Defining and achieving permanency among older youth in foster care
This study addresses three key research questions: (1) How do older youth in foster care define their personal permanency goals? (2) How much progress have these youth made in achieving their personal permanency goals and other aspects of relational permanency, and how does this vary by gender, race, and age? and (3) What transition-related outcomes are associated with relational permanency achievement?
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Migration and child health in Moldova and Georgia
This study uses nationally representative data collected in 2011–2012 in Moldova (N = 1601) and Georgia (N = 1193) to investigate how children’s health associates with five transnational characteristics: migrant and return-migrant household types, parental migration and parental divorce, maternal and/or paternal migration and caregiver’s identity, the duration of migration, and remittances.
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