The purpose of this action research study was to investigate social workers’ perceptions of the problems that prevent successful family reunifications after foster care. The study explored social workers’ perceptions of barriers that prevent family reunifications in central Mississippi, USA.
This phenomenological study included 18 in-depth interviews with six mothers aged 19–22 years in or transitioning from foster care.
After the cancellation of the 2013 US National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit, the Children’s Bureau decided to develop short videos as a means of sharing ideas and issues that could not be presented at the conference. The result is the Virtual Summit Series, a group of 17 videos that combine illustration, animation, motion graphics, and content from national experts.
This webinar series offers technical assistance to child welfare agencies in the US on how to use data to improve outcomes for children and families.
The 2018 Home Visiting Yearbook uses 2017 data to present the most up-to-date look at home visiting on the US national and state levels.
The Data Supplement to the 2017 Home Visiting Yearbook presents 2016 data on early childhood home visiting, a proven service delivery strategy that helps children and families thrive.
This three-part video series shows how a fictional organization, Greene County Department of Human Services, set out to improve permanency for children and youth by increasing the number of available foster and adoptive homes using data-driven decision making (DDDM).
Drawing on international and European law and guidance and the Barnahus model, this document introduces ten good practice standards, the “European Barnahus Standards”, for multidisciplinary and interagency services for child victims and witnesses of violence in Europe adapted to the child.
This brief explores challenges and strategies for evaluating systems and organizational change in US child welfare settings.
This paper outlines a psychological skills group for unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people with a focus on cultural adaptations in the context of a UK mental health service.
The authors of this paper aimed to examine the available evidence on the impact of overseas parental migration on healthcare seeking for common childhood illnesses and the nutritional status of children left-behind under five years of age.
This study compared the prevalence of mental health and psychosocial problems between left-behind children (LBC) and controls in Sichuan province, China.
The primary aim of this meta‐analysis was to compare the incidence rates and factor scores of behavioural problems in Left‐behind children (LBC), who now account for more than one‐fifth of Chinese children, and non‐LBC.
This comprehensive meta-analysis examined the pooled prevalence of depressive symptoms in ‘left-behind children (LBC)’ in China and its associated factors.
This study examined the effects of grandparent–grandchild cohesion on the cross-lagged associations between depression and cultural beliefs about adversity in a sample of 625 rural left-behind children in China.
This thesis aimed to systematically review literature on the types, measurement and effectiveness of residential staff training, focussed upon psychosocial outcomes.
This article investigates policy in the Philippines relating to the protection of children, which, despite policy efforts in this space, and growing evidence of child maltreatment and its impact, remains unexamined by the literature.
The European Commission Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) commissioned SOS Children’s Villages International to undertake case studies of arrangements for ‘alternative child care’ in six non-European countries across three continents to help inform the EU’s future strategy for provision of support for children in countries outside Europe. This report is a case study of one of the six countries, Ecuador.
The European Commission Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers commissioned SOS Children’s Villages International to undertake case studies of arrangements for ‘alternative child care’ in six non-European countries in three continents to help inform the EU’s future strategy for provision of support for children in countries outside Europe. This report is a case study of one of the six countries, Chile.
The overall purpose of this study is to present an ‘introduction’ to alternative care systems in Central and South America (CSA).
The objective of this study is to examine the intergenerational transmission of out-of-home care in Sweden.
This factsheet for families offers tips for helping a child transition from foster care to adoption.
This bulletin for professionals explores concurrent planning, which is an approach that seeks to reduce the amount of time children spend in foster care by considering all reasonable permanency options the moment a child enters the system.
The present longitudinal study explored the impact of initial emergency shelter placement on long-term externalizing behavior (i.e., aggression, delinquency) and internalizing symptom (i.e., anxiety, depression) trajectories, and whether kinship involvement moderated the effect of shelter placement on behavioral outcomes.
In this study, the authors assessed differences in the risk of early motherhood among low-income, maltreated, and foster youth and investigated whether differences likely reflect selection factors versus effects of involvement with Child Protective Services (CPS) or foster care.
