Care leavers, ambiguous loss and early parenting: explaining high rates of pregnancy and parenting amongst young people transitioning from out-of-home care

Jade Purtell, Philip Mendes and Bernadette J. Saunders - Children Australia

This paper is a narrative review examining the high prevalence of care leaver early parenting in the context of (i) key transitions from care studies taken from the last few decades, (ii) a structured review using Scopus of studies from 2015–2020 focussed specifically on young people transitioning from care and early parenting and (iii) Boss’s (2010) Ambiguous Loss theory.

Family assistant in meanders of foster care – the perspective of working with the biological family of a child placed in foster care environment

Zmysłowska, Magdalena - Praca Socjalna

This article deals with the issues of family assistance from the perspective of working with the biological family of a child placed in foster care.

From Foster Youth to Foster Scholar: Suggestions for Emancipatory Research Practices

Angela E. Hoffman-Cooper - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper discusses how research related to youth with experience in foster care can be conducted in an emancipatory manner with researchers actively supporting the liberation of youth with experience in foster care through their scholarly contributions.

Bahasa Indonesia Translation - Disability rights during the pandemic: A global report on findings of the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor

Disability Rights Monitor

This report (translated into Bahasa Indonesia) has one central purpose: To raise the alarm globally as to the catastrophic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on persons with disabilities worldwide, including children with disabilities, and to catalyse urgent action in the weeks and months to come.

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Disability rights during the pandemic: A global report on findings of the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor

Disability Rights Monitor

This report has one central purpose: To raise the alarm globally as to the catastrophic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on persons with disabilities worldwide, including children with disabilities, and to catalyse urgent action in the weeks and months to come.

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Underrepresented Populations in the Child Welfare System: Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Populations

Rowena Fong and Georgina Petronella - Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System

This chapter from the book Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System explores disproportionality and disparities of Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander in the child welfare system.

Children’s experiences of alternative care in mainland Southeast Asia – a scoping review of literature

Justin Rogers, Robert Whitelaw, Victor Karunan, Pryn Ketnim - Children and Youth Services Review

This scoping review focuses on available research articles that directly, or indirectly, engage with children to explore their experiences of living in Residential Care Settings (RCSs) in the Southeast Asia region.

The Community Impact of Racial Disproportionality: The Racial Geography of Child Welfare

Dorothy Roberts - Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System

The overrepresentation of black children in the foster care population represents massive state supervision and dissolution of families concentrated in their neighborhoods. This chapter from Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System addresses the social impact of this concentration of child welfare agency involvement on the residents who live in these neighborhoods.

“Essential” services, risk, and child protection in the time of COVID-19: An opportunity to prioritize chronic need

Johanna Caldwell, Ashleigh Delaye, Tonino Esposito, Tara Petti, Tara Black, Barbara Fallon, Nico Trocmé - Developmental Child Welfare

In this commentary, the authors suggest that a focus on short-term risk in the response to COVID-19 may obscure support for children’s long-term outcomes.

Child Welfare System Issues as Explanatory Factors for Racial Disproportionality and Disparities

Michele D. Hanna - Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System

This chapter from Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System focuses on the macro level exploring the child welfare system as an explanatory factor using a critical race theory lens.

Racial Disproportionality and Disparities Among African American Children in the Child Welfare System

Jessica Pryce and Anna Yelick - Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System

This chapter from Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System explores the factors contributing to the disproportionate number of Black children and families in the U.S. child welfare system.

Qualitative process evaluation of the Fostering Changes program for foster carers as part of the Confidence in Care randomized controlled trial

Susan Channon, Elinor Coulman, Gwenllian Moody, Lucy Brookes-Howell, Rebecca Cannings-John, et al - Child Abuse & Neglect

The purpose of this study was to conduct a qualitative process evaluation drawing on stakeholder perspectives to describe the logic model of Fostering Changes, identify potential mechanisms of impact of the program and enhance understanding of the trial results.

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Cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) to support parental contact for children in out-of-home care

Aino Suomi, Nina Lucas, Morag McArthur, Cathy Humphreys, Timothy Dobbins, Stephanie Taplin - Child Abuse & Neglect

The aim of this cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to test the effectiveness of a contact intervention for parents having supervised contact with children in long-term OOHC.

Restraint, seclusion and time-out among children and youth in group homes and residential treatment centers: a latent profile analysis

Alexandra Matte-Landry and Delphine Collin-Vézina - Child Abuse & Neglect

The purpose of this study was to enhance understanding of restrictive interventions in residential units as a means of improving professional practices involving children and youth in out-of-home care.