Using family network data in child protection services

Alex James,Jeanette McLeod, Shaun Hendy, Kip Marks, Delia Rusu, Syen Nik, Michael J. Plank - PLoS ONE

In this study, the authors analyse a child protection services dataset that includes a network of approximately 5 million social relationships collected by social workers between 1996 and 2016 in New Zealand to test the potential of information about family networks to improve accuracy of models used to predict the risk of child maltreatment.

Standard 2 - Multidisciplinary & Interagency Collaboration: Interagency Agreement Template and Guidance

Olivia Lind Haldorsson - Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat and Child Circle

This document offers inspiration and guidance for drafting an interagency agreement which formalises multidisciplinary and interagency (MDIA) team collaboration between agencies involved in Barnahus (a child-friendly, interdisciplinary and multi-agency centre for child victims and witnesses where children could be interviewed and medically examined for forensic purposes, comprehensively assessed and receive all relevant therapeutic services from appropriate professionals).

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Webinar Recording: Lessons from LEAP

Annie E. Casey Foundation

On Sept. 19, the Casey Foundation hosted a webinar sharing data and lessons from the first phase of Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP)™, an effort to boost employment and educational opportunities for young people ages 15 to 25 who’ve experienced homelessness or been involved with public systems.

Phase 9 Florida Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration Evaluation Final Report (10/2013-09/2018)

Mary I. Armstrong, et al - Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida

This report presents findings from an implementation analysis aimed at describing implementation of the U.S. state of Florida Title IV-E Demonstration Project, which allowed the state to use certain federal funds more flexibly, for services other than room and board expenses for children served in out-of-home care.

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Perceptions of Alumni of Child Welfare Regarding Supports Related to Their Development towards Well-being: A Qualitative Case Study

Collins, Tanya L - Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

The purpose of this study was to gain insights into the perspectives of child welfare alumni related to the educational experiences that facilitated or presented obstacles to academic and social-emotional resilience and well-being and to what extent.

Characteristics of successful foster families according to Flemish foster care workers

Frank Van Holen, Lynn Geys, Delphine West, Laura Gypen, Johan Vanderfaeillie - Children and Youth Services Review

In this study, a sample of 97 (out of 505) foster care workers in Flanders (Dutch speaking part of Belgium) from all foster care agencies were asked to answer in writing the question: “What characteristics does a successful foster family have?”

(Re)Displaying Family: Relational Agency of Care-experienced Young People Embarking on Parenthood

Caroline Cresswell - Families in Motion: Ebbing and Flowing through Space and Time

This chapter from 'Families in Motion: Ebbing and Flowing through Space and Time' explores an overlooked theme across the literature: capturing the experience of childhood family disruption and transitional flux between foster family homes and the independent sensemaking into the present of young care-experienced parents.

Variables Related to Victimization and Perpetration of Dating Violence in Adolescents in Residential Care Settings

María Dosil, Joana Jaureguizar, and Elena Bermaras - The Spanish Journal of Psychology

This study had three goals: (1) To analyze the prevalence of dating violence in adolescents under residential care settings according to sex and age; (2) to explore the relationships between victimization and perpetration in adolescents’ dating violence, sexist attitudes and clinical variables; and (3) to identify variables associated to adolescents’ dating violence (victimization and perpetration).

The Reunification of American Indian Children in Long-Term Foster Care

Ashley L. Landers, Jennifer L. Bellamy, Sharon M. Danes, Alan McLuckie, Sandy White Hawk - Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

The literature examining reunification for American Indian children reveals mixed findings regarding racial differences. Studies that isolate the impact of race on reunification while controlling for other covariates are needed, and this study fills that gap.

Trust Conference 2018: Keynote Address - Kate Van Doore

Thomson Reuters Foundation

In this video, Kate van Doore, International Child Rights Lawyer of Griffith University Law School, discusses her experience with opening up an orphanage in Nepal, and another in Uganda, and then discovering that the children in these homes had living parents and families and that the orphanages had been made into money-making enterprises. 

The documented layer of children's rights in care order decision‐making

Susanna Hoikkala & Tarja Pösö - Child & Family Social Work

This article departs from the view that when children are perceived as bearers of rights, this should also be reflected in the institutional documents of decision‐making. That is why the documented layer of decisions about taking a child into care is examined here.

Beyond Orphanage Visits: Resources for Travel and Volunteering Organisations on Responsible Alternatives to Orphanage Tourism and Volunteering

Responsible Tourism Partnership & Martin Punaks

It is now widely accepted that visiting or volunteering in orphanages is harmful to children. The purpose of this resource is to bring together in one place some the best resources about this issue in order to assist travel and volunteering organisations.

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Household Vulnerability Assessment Tool (HVAT)

AVSI & FHI 360

The Household Vulnerability Assessment tool (HVAT) is for assessment of families selected through the vulnerability prioritization process. This adapted tool helps to obtain in-depth baseline information about a family’s level of vulnerability to family-child separation, which will be used for monitoring progression of FARE beneficiary families’ vulnerability to family-child separation.

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Family Resilience Reflection Note #2: Cash Transfer

AVSI

This Reflection Note is intended as a means for AVSI staff and implementing partners on the FARE project to capture emerging learning as relates to the theory of change elaborated during project design. Particularly, the Reflection Note seeks to answer how necessary and effective cash transfers are as a component of the economic strengthening pathway, hypothesized as crucial for the project goals of building family resilience as a means of preventing child-family separation or ensuring successful reintegration of children into family care.

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