A Series on Alternative Care: Aftercare

Udayan Care and UNICEF

This booklet on aftercare is part of a Series on Alternative Care covering the latest legal and policy framework on Alternative Care in India, which has been presented in an easy-to-understand style so that they can be used as an effective reference material by all stakeholders.

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A Series on Alternative Care: Standards of Care in Child Care Institutions

Udayan Care and UNICEF

This booklet on standards of care in child care institutions is part of a Series on Alternative Care covering the latest legal and policy framework on Alternative Care in India, which has been presented in an easy-to-understand style so that they can be used as an effective reference material by all the stakeholders.

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Together for Children: A Community's Journey

The Leher Team (Richa Nagaich, Tasha Koshi Kajol Menon, Nicole Rangel Menezes, and Nipa Bhansali)

In 2014, Leher partnered with Sarvo Prayas Sansthan (SPS) to develop and implement a community based preventive child protection initiative in the district of Madhubani in Bihar, India. This report presents the learning from that initiative.

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Gender-Based Violence and Violence Against Children: Prevention and Response Services in Uganda’s Refugee-Hosting Districts

Government of Uganda and World Bank

The Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) analysis includes a comprehensive mapping of services for GBV and VAC prevention and response across the key sectors of health, police, justice, and social services in refugee settlements and host communities.

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Adverse caregiving in early life: The trauma and deprivation distinction in young children

Katherine L. Guyon‐Harris, Kathryn L. Humphreys, Charles H. Zeanah - Infant Mental Health Journal

In this article, the authors highlight a framework distinguishing experiences of trauma from experiences of deprivation and use the examples of posttraumatic stress disorder and reactive attachment disorder to demonstrate how greater specificity in our understanding of early adverse caregiving can lead to more accurate and targeted diagnosis and treatment for young children.

My Journey into ‘Child Protection’ and Aboriginal Family Led Decision Making

Hannah McGlade - Australian Feminist Law Journal

This article documents the author's experiences with the state’s contemporary removal of Aboriginal children in Western Australia (WA) and the practice of Aboriginal Family Led Decision Making (AFLDM), a family led decision making process supported as best practice for Aboriginal families.

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the Drivers of HIV Status Knowledge in Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Mozambique

Allie Davis, Zola Allen, Nena do Nascimento, Jenifer Chapman, Rotafina Donco, Daan Velthausz - Global Health: Science and Practice

The authors of this study applied fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), based on 119 interviews, to identify the combinations of case management attributes that led to (1) increased knowledge of HIV status, and (2) high percentages of beneficiaries with known HIV status participating in a program that serves orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV and their families in Mozambique.

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Global Research Series: Girls on the Move

Sandra Johansson, Sara Granath, Maria Reglero and Melinda van Zyl - Save the Children

The Girls on the Move Initiative is a global series of action research that puts girls at the centre. It has been conducted across different regions within existing Save the Children programmes. Each regional study generates targeted evidence to address knowledge gaps in current literature and programme approaches, and engages Save the Children teams to immediately strengthen ongoing interventions for girls in different stages of migration, notably during transit and arrival.

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Youth in Foster Care and the Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standard

Amanda Stafford McRell, Christian E. Holmes, Akanksha Singh, Sue E. Levkoff, Benjamin Schooley, Neşet Hikmet, Kristen D. Seay - Child Maltreatment

For this study, researchers conducted semi-structured retrospective telephone interviews with foster parents across one southeastern U.S. state to identify local retrospective perspectives on Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standard (RPPS) implementation.

Sector‐wide analysis of early childhood development and education in emergencies in Colombia and considerations to strengthen systems globally

Liliana Angelica Ponguta, Carlos Andres Aragón, Lucero Ramirez Varela, Kathryn Moore, Sascha Hein, Adrian Cerezo - New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

The authors of this study applied a sector‐wide analysis protocol that harmonized components of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle by the Inter‐Agency Standing Committee and of a framework to characterize the governance of early childhood development and education (ECDE) systems.

Do implementation contexts for the Positive Parenting Program improve child and parental well-being?

Antonio R Garcia, Minseop Kim, Christina Myers, Xuan Trinh - Journal of Social Work

this study relied on organizational survey data collected from child welfare workers and supervisors during the process of implementing an evidence-based practice—the Positive Parenting Program—and merged those data with data gathered by the Parents' Assessment of Protective Factors survey.

Through Our Eyes: Giving due weight to the views of children and young people in policy making

Meaghan Vosz, Shelley Keevers, Dylan Williams, Ben, Bonnie and Nika - Centre for Children and Young People

This resource is structured into six ‘practices’ that the authors learned from policy actors who are working in development, consultation and evaluation of policy that directly impacts the lives of children and young people in care.

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