This Reflective Field Guide aims to contribute to fostering more authentic community engagement in humanitarian child protection action.

This article reviews theories of Indigenous identity development and their implications for Indigenous children, particularly those caught in the nexus of two cultures, as is the case with those in state care in Canada.

In this article, a team of practitioners explores the basis, implementation, research base, and future application of Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP)’s dual-prong service model in building resilience in youth and families in the U.S., providing comprehensive, community-based services as an alternative to institutionalization for youth and young adults with complex needs and challenges.

This research aimed to construct an explanatory theory of how residential staff make sense of, and use, attachment theory in practice.

This document - written in English and Burmese - presents guidance on how to ensure continuity of child protection case management service provision during the COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar.

This guidance - written in English and Burmese - has been designed to ensure the care of children affected by COVID-19 in Myanmar due to either the child or caregiver requiring medical care in the home, community or health facility.

This study was carried out to determine the pattern of dermatological conditions and contributing factors among children living in orphanages in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Based on an analysis of 342 complaints concerning foster care reported to the Flemish Office of the Children's Rights Commissioner, the authors of this paper analysed which “alarming situations” are reported and highlight a number of pressing concerns from the perspective of parents.

This Note proposes a model New York state statute that will recognize the importance of children's visitation with incarcerated parents, implement “child friendly” visitation programs, facilitate training for prison staff, and provide transportation for children in major cities to the prison facilities.

In this article journalist Mykeala Campanini explores why a majority of children in out-of-home care (OOHC) in Australia are struggling to reach national literacy and numeracy benchmarks, which puts them at risk of becoming disengaged with schooling, resulting in lifelong disadvantage.

Parental opioid use disorder (OUD) is a risk factor for the maltreatment of children and placement into foster care. This brief explores the availability of opioid agonist therapy (OAT) in U.S. counties experiencing different increases in foster care entry rates.

This study uses a representative sample of foster youth to investigate youth-level and county-level predictors of youths’ roles in their transitional independent living plan (TILP) development and satisfaction with the care decision meetings.

Using routine data from a kinship care helpline service, this study employed a mixed‐method analysis of the association between socioeconomic deprivation and risk factors reported by kinship carers in the UK and explored social capital in kinship families.

This project aimed to identify factors that might explain the ‘attainment gap’ for Children in Need (CIN) and Children in Care (CIC) in England.

This study explored the parenting experiences of orphaned youth heading households in resource-constrainted environments.

The present study aims to explore the specific influence of migrant mothers on early child development, especially on social-emotional problems.

This paper, by drawing on the different meanings held by documentation in ECEC contexts, in terms of viewing it as ‘equipped with agentic power’ (Alasuutari and Kelle 2015) reflects on the meanings of (pedagogical) documentation in alternative care settings, as a transitional space between ‘being spoken for’ and ‘speaking for oneself’, in light of a rights-based and pedagogical framework.

This report describes the experiences of Truth Project participants who were sexually abused in custodial institutions in the UK between the 1950s and 2010s.

This guidance for street work during the Covid-19 crisis includes both practical guidance and advocacy messages and resources to support Street Work during this worrying time.

These tip sheets from Save the Children provide recommendations for disability inclusion during COVID-19 across a range of thematic areas and topics, including education, cash transfers, health, and nutrition.

This study investigated depressive and anxiety symptoms among students in Hubei province, China, which can help optimize interventions on the mental health of children for stakeholders in all countries affected by COVID-19.

There is little empirical evidence on how to improve the well‐being and safety of children in informal kinship care in Ghana. Thus, this study reports findings from in‐depth interviews with 15 young people, 18 to 23 years, from Banda—an ethnic group where informal kinship care is an accepted cultural practice.

This technical note, which is informed by reports from the field, examines issues that children may face as countries implement lockdowns and stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Acest document de însoțire a Notei tehnice inter-instituționale privind Protecția copiilor în perioada pandemiei de COVID-19: Copiii și îngrijirea alternativă oferă sfaturi utile pentru promovarea implicării și participării tuturor părților interesate, care este esențială pentru asigurarea continuității serviciilor pentru copii.

This article outlines key research on how motivational interviewing is an approach that strengthens positive youth development and can improve youth’s engagement in skills, resources, and services as they age out of foster care.