Omprakash EdGE and the Staley School of Leadership Studies at Kansas State University Online Course

Omprakash EdGE and the Staley School of Leadership Studies at Kansas State University (KSU) in the US have announced a new partnership, through which they will be offering a first-of-its-kind, fully-accredited online course designed to prepare students for social impact work in international contexts.

Institutionalization of children in Kenya: A child rights Perspective - Does institutionalization of children in Kenya neglect a child rights based approach?

Stephen Ucembe - International Institute of Social Studies

This essay examines institutional care not as a structure or facility, but as a model of care and protection for orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya.

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The Council of Europe action in favour of children’s rights: Helping professionals working with children make the best use of available standards

Regína Jensdóttir, Council of Europe - Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

This article describes the current strategies of the  “Building a Europe for and with Children” programme, a programme of the Council of Europe. The strategy focuses on four areas of action: promoting child-friendly services and systems; eliminating all forms of violence against children; guaranteeing the rights of children in vulnerable situations, and promoting child participation. A further standard is available on children’s rights and social services friendly to children and families for ensuring that children lacking or placed outside parental care are given adequate treatment.

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Universal Periodic Review – Bulgaria 2015: Lumos’ recommendations to protect the human rights of children in the deinstitutionalisation process in Bulgaria

Georgette Mulheir, Chief Executive - Lumos

In this paper, Lumos reviews Bulgaria’s national strategy on deinstitutionalisation, adopted in 2010, and provides recommendations for ensuring the rights of children in the process.

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Development and piloting of a treatment foster care program for older youth with psychiatric problems

J. Curtis McMillen, Sarah Carter Narendorf, Debra Robinson, Judy Havlicek, Nicole Fedoravicius, Julie Bertram, David McNelly - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

This paper reports on the development and piloting of a manualized treatment foster care program in the US designed to step down older youth with high psychiatric needs from residential programs to treatment foster care homes.

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Information Packet: Emotional and Psychological Well-Being of Children in Foster Care

Shoshana Indyk - National Center for Child Welfare Excellence

This information packet presents an overview of facts, statistics, policies, legislation, best practices, model programs, and additional resources related to the US child welfare system and the emotional and psychological well-being of children involved in that system.

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Research-Practice Partnerships for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare and Child Mental Health: A White Paper

Lawrence A. Palinkas, Cherry Short, and Marleen Wong - School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

This paper addresses the disconnect between research and practice in regards to child welfare and child mental health services in the US.

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