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.
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.
Transitioning to Family Care for Children: A Guidance Manual aims to provide practical guidance and tools for churches, faith-based organizations, donors, and others who are transitioning care for children away from residential care to care within families.
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.
The Bridges Transitions Framework (Bridges, 2009) implemented in this study shows some promise in smoothing foster youth reactions to change. The framework was adapted to help older youth, foster parents, and social workers look beyond the concrete goals of independent living (e.g., housing, employment). It is process-oriented and attends to the psycho-social reactions and emotions that youth experience during times of significant change.
This chapter examines stories that foster care youth tell to legislatures, courts, policymakers, and the public to influence policy decisions in the US.
A case study approach was utilized to investigate individually and as a group, the aging out process of nine sexual minority adults, specifically, lesbian, gay and transgender (LGT) adults who transitioned from a Mid-Atlantic foster care system to adulthood.
This report describes the findings from a research study on the protection of children fleeing from the Syria conflict and traveling to Europe.
Every child deserves a childhood of love, care and protection so they can develop to their full potential, but this is not the experience for at least a quarter of our children worldwide. This new report – the first in an annual series – takes a hard look at the events that rob children of their childhoods.
Every child deserves a childhood of love, care and protection so they can develop to their full potential, but this is not the experience for at least a quarter of our children worldwide. This new report – the first in an annual series – takes a hard look at the events that rob children of their childhoods.
