Key variations in organizational culture and leadership influence: A comparison between three children’s mental health and child welfare agencies

Rosemary Vito - Children and Youth Services Review

The purpose of this article is to present qualitative research results from a multiple case study on variations in organizational culture and leadership influence between three children’s mental health and child welfare agencies in Ontario, Canada.

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Perception of social climate by welfare/justice-involved girls in out-of-home placement centers

Mylène Pellerin, Geneviève Parent, Nadine Lanctôt - Children and Youth Services Review

This study aims to explore whether the social climate is perceived more positively by adolescent girls who participate in the Caring and Just Community Approach (CJCA), compared to those who participated in the cognitive behavioral approach (CBA).

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FOSTER

Deborah Oppenheimer & Mark Jonathan Harris - HBO

This documentary from HBO explores the often-misunderstood world of foster care in the U.S. through compelling stories from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, the largest county child welfare agency in the country.

Turning Resistance into Passion for Knowledge with the Tools of Agency: Teaching-Learning about Theories of Evolution for social justice among foster youth

Eduardo Vianna & Anna Stetsenko - Perspectiva

The authors of this article discuss implementing critical-theoretical pedagogy within a collaborative transformative project in a foster care program in the U.S. to showcase the activist role of the educator in providing tools of agency for youth struggling against oppression.

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Parental-group interventions for parents of children with mental health problems admitted in a tertiary care center: An experience from India

N Janardhana, B Manjula - Indian Journal of Community Medicine

The objective of this study is to understand the use of parental-group intervention for helping parents understand the problems of their children and to develop skills to deal with those problems.

Do prescribers deprescribe psychotropic medication for children in foster care?

Conor O’Brien, John T. Rapp, Erica D. Kierce - Developmental Child Welfare

For this study, the researchers conducted a retrospective descriptive study of Medicaid files for 30 individuals placed in a foster care system that included an analysis of 10 consecutive visits with a prescribing practitioner spanning 8–14 months.

Fostering healthy families: An exploration of the informal and formal support needs of foster caregivers

Jacquelyn K. Mallette, Lindsey Almond, Hannah Leonard - Children and Youth Services Review

This qualitative study examines the challenges foster caregivers face within their families and seeks to understand their formal and informal support systems so that future trainings may be created to provide for the specific and realistic needs of foster caregivers.

Staff support and adolescent adjustment difficulties: The moderating role of length of stay in the residential care setting

Adena A. Hoffnung Assouline & Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examines the link between perceived staff social support and emotional and behavioral adjustment difficulties of adolescents in educational residential care settings (RCSs) designed for youth from underprivileged backgrounds in Israel.

Physical activity interventions to improve the health of children and adolescents in out of home care- A systematic review of the literature

Brendan Wilson & Lisa M Barnett - Children and Youth Services Review

This review identifies if physical activity interventions are effective for children in out of home care, and if so which type of activity and for what health outcomes.

Looked after children and young people in Northern Ireland : education, school and unauthorised absence

Emma O'Neill - Ulster University

The aim of this doctoral thesis was to identify why there are higher rates of unauthorised absence from school among post-primary looked after children and young people (LACYP), what does this tell us about their educational experiences, and what is known to be helpful or unhelpful in addressing this issue.

Childhood Left-Behind Experience and Employment Quality of New-Generation Migrants in China

Jianbo Liu, Xiaodong Zheng, Marie Parker & Xiangming Fang - Population Research and Policy Review

This is the first study that empirically investigates the associations between left-behind experience in childhood and the quality of employment in adulthood for young rural-to-urban migrants in China, a population known as new-generation migrants.

The mediating mechanism between psychological resilience and mental health among left-behind children in China

Xinyi Zhao, Fang Fu, Luqing Zhou - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examined the mediating effect of psychological trait resilience on the relationship between protective factors from social network and self-esteem/depression of the left-behind children in China.

Constructions of young migrants’ situations in kinship care in a Swedish suburb by social workers in a non-governmental organisation mentoring programme

Maria Moberg Stephenson, Åsa Källström - Qualitative Social Work

The aim of this study is to explore how the social workers employed at a non-governmental organisation mentoring programme construct young migrants’ situations in kinship care in a Swedish suburb, and if and how these constructions change during the course of the programme.

Caregiver‐endorsed strategies to improving sexual health outcomes among foster youth

Katie Albertson, Julia M. Crouch, Wadiya Udell, Allison Schimmel‐Bristow, Jessica Serrano, Kym R. Ahrens - Child & Family Social Work

For this study, the researchers conducted 11 semistructured focus groups with 86 foster and kinship caregivers in three child welfare jurisdictions to understand their strategies for monitoring and communicating with youth in foster care around sexual health topics, with the overall goal of developing a training for caregivers to reduce STI and unintended pregnancies among youth in foster care.

Suicidal behaviour in transition‐aged youth with out‐of‐home care experience: Reviewing risk, assessment, and intervention

Colleen C. Katz, Danielle Busby, Chelsey McCabe - Child & Family Social Work

The purpose of the current study is to highlight the rates of suicidal ideation and behaviour in youth with out‐of‐home care experience, illuminating the empirical risk factors that may increase their vulnerability.

The education of children in care and children in need: Who falls behind and when?

Ian Sinclair, Nikki Luke, John Fletcher, Aoife O'Higgins, Steve Strand, David Berridge, Judy Sebba, Sally Thomas - Child & Family Social Work

This study aimed to explain the development of the educational gap between children in “out‐of‐home care” (CLA), children deemed in social need (CIN), and other pupils.