“They Need to Give Us a Voice”: Lessons from Listening to Unaccompanied Central American and Mexican Children on Helping Children Like Themselves

Susan Schmidt - Journal on Migration and Human Security

This article analyzes the responses of Central American and Mexican migrant children to one interview question regarding how to help youth like themselves, and identifies several implied “no-win” situations as potential reasons for the migration decisions of unaccompanied children.

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4th Annual Global Social Service Workforce Alliance Symposium: Case Management and the Social Service Workforce (Video recording)

Social Service Workforce Alliance

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance hosted its 4th Annual Symposium on May 24, 2017, in Washington, DC, and also via live webcast on the topic of case management and the social service workforce.

Effect of yoga program on executive functions of adolescents dwelling in an orphan home: A randomized controlled study

Satya Prakash Purohit & Balaram Pradhan - Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine

This study implemented a 3-month yoga program with orphan adolescents in Bangalore, India and evaulated the impact of the program on adolescent executive functioning. 

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Information and Communication Technology for Child Protection Case Management in Emergencies: An Overview of the Existing Evidence Base

Nadi N. Kaonga, Hima Batavia, William C. Philbrick, & Patricia N. Mechael - Procedia Engineering

Organizations working to protect the health and wellbeing of children in emergencies are moving away from traditional paper-based systems towards more sophisticated and innovative digitally-based systems. Formative research was conducted to identify the state of the current evidence base on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for child protection case management in emergencies (CPCME). 

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The availability and role of non-parental identity agents for institutionalized male adolescent social orphans in Colombia: Child and youth services review

Michelle A. Novelle & Judith G. Gonyea - Children & Youth Services Review

This qualitative study explores eighteen institutionalized male adolescent Colombian social orphans' perspectives on the nature of their relationships with non-parental adults in their immediate environment.

Letting the Future In: a therapeutic intervention for children affected by sexual abuse and their carers - An evaluation of impact and implementation

John Carpenter, Tricia Jessiman and Demi Patsios - University of Bristol; Simon Hackett and Josephine Phillips - Durham University

This independent report, from University of Bristol and Durham University, draws on information from the largest randomised controlled trial of a service for children affected by sexual abuse.

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Transitioning to Family Care for Children Tool Kit

Faith to Action Initiative

The Transitioning to Family Care for Children Tool Kit is an online resource developed by the Faith to Action Initiative for churches, faith-based organizations, donors, and others seeking to transition their care and support of children away from a residential model of care (e.g., institutions, orphanages, children’s homes, group homes) to care within families.