This issue brief discusses the importance of childcare for disaster recovery and provides policy recommendations on how to protect and restore community childcare infrastructure in disasters.

This Practitioner Brief presents key learning and recommendations from the Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families (KCHPF) project, an operational research project which supported the reintegration of children living in residential care back into family care in Uganda.

The aim of this module from the book Rights-based Integrated Child Protection Service Delivery Systems is to learn to place children in specific alternative childcare services.

This book provides training modules for rights-based integrated child protection service delivery systems at the secondary and tertiary prevention levels.

The aim of this module is to learn about children without parental care and the need for rights-based Integrated Alternative Childcare Centres.

This paper explores the benefits, challenges and dilemmas involved in the job of professional (i.e. state-supported) foster carer in Romania–a country where the issue of child protection has drawn a great deal of international attention over the last thirty years.

Abstract
Indigenous cultures have been under significant attack in Canada since first contact with Europeans. This has resulted in significant harm to Indigenous Peoples and particularly to youth in state care, who often struggle with their identity when they are placed in non-Indigenous out-of-home settings. Developing protective ways of countering this is compounded by the lack of understanding of identity development amongst Indigenous youth. 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.

This collection of resources from UNICEF includes a call to action, policy brief, and evidence briefs focused on investing in family-friendly policies in the workplace.

For this study, physical and mental health, school achievement, justice involvement and child protection contact were explored for three cohorts of children in Australia born between 1 January 1990 and 30 June 1995.

This information sheet outlines provincial adoption provisions for Indigenous children.

This article explores child welfare professionals' understandings of well-being, as well as barriers and facilitators to well-being in their practice experience.

This thesis paper explores (1) how children in care in the UK are making use of mobile communication devices for contact with members of their familial and friendship networks; (2) to what extent devices like the smartphone, tablets and computers either improve or hinder communication; and (3) how contact using mobile communication devices and Internet is being managed by foster carers and social workers.

This checklist was developed by Kinnected, an initiative of ACCI Relief in Australia, to guide donors and supporters of orphanages in understanding how the orphanages they support are being run and how well they are aligning with best practices. 

This Self-Assessment Tool has been developed for use by educational institutions to assist with due diligence in the planning and implementation of overseas student travel.

This video from 1MillionHome shares the story of one children's home in Kenya, Agape, that transitioned from a "traditional orphanage" to a family reunification center.

This video from Homecoming tells the fictional story of Bernard, a boy separated from his family and placed in an institution, and explains some of the harms of institutionalization on children.

This guide was developed by Homecoming and has been written to help those in the Christian community who are thinking about whether they should volunteer in an orphanage (or residential care institution, children’s village, children’s home or centre).

This video shares the story of two siblings reintegrated from an orphanage in Myanmar through the ACCIR Kinnected Program.

This study analyzes the opinions of foster families and social workers regarding the benefits and problems associated with contact visits.

Decades of research confirm that children and adolescents in out‐of‐home care (foster family, residential care) have much greater healthcare needs than their peers. A systematic literature review was conducted to evaluate organizational healthcare models for this vulnerable group.

Set in Central Region Ghana, using Country-Side Children’s Welfare Home (CCWH) as the main case study, this thesis investigates the underlying factors that are preventing families in the Bawjiase and surroundings from opening their homes and hearts to vulnerable children.

The aim of this article is to analyse the evaluations made by the main stakeholders involved in the school situation of young people in residential care and propose an explanatory model of their level of school satisfaction (SS) based on variables related to the youngsters' subjective well-being.

This report is based on research in the French Department of Hautes-Alpes between January and July 2019 in which Human Rights Watch researchers interviewed fifty-nine boys, one girl, and one adult man who had recently turned 18, all of whom had migrated to France unaccompanied.

This report presents the main conclusions from the 2019 Small Voices Big Dreams Technical Manual, which outlines in great detail the perceptions and opinions of children and adolescents from all over the world regarding the multiple dimensions of violence exercised against them.

These Case Management Minimum Indicators provide measurable benchmarks to assess the quality of case management in humanitarian crises.