This paper considers the importance of material objects for looked after and adopted children integrated as part of life story work practices.

The aim of the article was the analysis of the problem of speech development in care and educational institutions and family-run children’s houses in Poland.

In this study, the authors analyzed the literature on foster care in Poland and conducted a narrative questionnaire with an educator who simultaneously holds the responsibility for teaching youth in foster care autonomy in order to identify factors that affect educational and vocational plans that foster care charges have.

Drawing on the extant literature, this chapter will present a multileveled discussion of the experiences of prejudice and bias foster youth face, with a focus on the systemic inequities among diverse youth in foster care, the individual challenges youth with different social identities face, socialization processes that can support these youth, and challenges foster parents face in supporting foster youths’ healthy identity development.

The aim of this study was to ask youth themselves how they experience the impact of traumas prior to living in a foster family.

This study estimated the impact of state and individual-level risk and protective factors on adverse 19-year-old outcomes among a cohort of U.S. transition age youth.

This study tests whether an expansion of the Danish aftercare scheme in 2001 affects later outcomes of foster care alumni.

As part of a broader action research project aiming to prevent both harmful sexual behaviour carried out by children and young people and child sexual exploitation (CSE) in out‐of‐home care, four focus groups were undertaken with 17 workers at three Victorian residential houses in 2017.

This study explores understandings of children and childhood among 21 social workers from five child protection services in Chile.

This chapter aims to review how the CRC has been integrated into Taiwan’s laws and social practices since its promulgation in 1989.

This chapter will help the reader to understand the design and outcomes of the foster care system in the USA.

This chapter from Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education focuses on the transition point when youth begin to age out of care and may move into postsecondary education.

Este llamado pide a los gobiernos nacionales y locales, en coordinación con socios nacionales y globales, fortalecer la fuerza laboral del servicio social para mejorar los resultados de protección, salud y bienestar para niños, niñas, jóvenes, familias y comunidades como se describe en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.

The purpose of this toolkit is to guide participatory, national level analyses of the social service workforce.

Virtual Philanthropy is a guided tour for nonprofits looking to understand the steps they should take in order to get in front of, and eventually get funding from, foundations and donors.

This research study was commissioned to generate a better understanding of three school communities in Cambodia: Islamic schools, Buddhist monastic schools, and floating schools with a focus on identifying challenges in delivering quality and inclusive education.

This research study was commissioned to generate a better understanding of three school communities in Cambodia: Islamic schools, Buddhist monastic schools, and floating schools with a focus on identifying challenges in delivering quality and inclusive education.

This study examines child protection risks faced by preschool age children (3-5 years old) and adolescents (10-14 years old) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and determines the interconnectivity between such risks and education.

This study examines child protection risks faced by preschool age children (3-5 years old) and adolescents (10-14 years old) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and determines the interconnectivity between such risks and education.

This study investigated what factors are associated with an improvement in quality of life (QoL) during residential stay for children and adolescents living in youth welfare institutions in Switzerland.

The present study uses the US National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) to examine educational attainment, employment, homelessness, and incarceration for white, African-American, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native emancipated youth.

The aim of this study was to assess and compare emotional and behavioral problems between left-behind children (LBC) and non-LBC in Indonesia.

This review aimed to identify, appraise and synthesise published literature concerned with the reunification of looked after children with their birth parents in the UK. 

This article aims to unpack the reasons that Sweden's incorporation of legal measures to secure the rights recognised in the Convention on the Rights of the Child has been the subject of a lengthy and contentious debate.

This module is the third part of the Parenting without Violence Bronze Course. The module identifies concrete ways to integrate Parenting without Violence into your work.