Measuring Symptoms of Psychopathology in Zambian Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Scale Validation and Psychometric Evaluation

Sarah McIvor Murray, Paul Bolton, Jeremy C. Kane, Daniel P. Lakin, Stephanie Skavenski Van Wyk, Ravi Paul, Laura K. Murray - Assessment

The authors of this paper sought to explore the psychometric properties and validity of the Achenbach Youth Self-Report and Child Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Scale among orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) living in Lusaka, Zambia.

Do Orphans And Vulnerable Children Have A Future? A Critical Analysis of Community-Based Social Protection Systems in Kenya

Selina Cheptonui Kogo - Africa International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (AIJMR)

This paper analyses the role of community-based child protection structures for the survival and development of orphans and vulnerable children.

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Examining Developmental Adversity and Connectedness in Child Welfare-Involved Children

Erin P. Hambrick, Thomas W. Brawner and Bruce D. Perry - Children Australia

In this article, the authors explore whether current relational health (connectedness) promotes positive outcomes for child welfare-involved youth while controlling for developmental risk (history of adverse, and lack of relationally positive, experiences).

Further analysis of the British Chinese Adoption Study (BCAS): Adult life events and experiences after international adoption

Margaret Grant & Alan Rushton - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper seeks to contribute to debates about how people's adult lives unfold after experiencing childhood adversity. It presents analysis from the British Chinese Adoption Study: a mixed methods follow-up study of women, now aged in their 40s and early 50s, who spent their infant lives in Hong Kong orphanages and were then adopted by families in the UK in the 1960s.

MEASURING SEPARATION IN EMERGENCIES: Concise Pilot Report Democratic Republic of Congo July-August 2014 - Population-Based Estimation Method

Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian and Craig Spencer (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University), Anna Skeels (Save the Children)

This document provides a brief summary of the field testing of the population-based estimation method (or ‘estimation method’) in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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MEASURING SEPARATION IN EMERGENCIES: Concise Pilot Report Democratic Republic of Congo

Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian and Craig Spencer (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University), Anna Skeels (Save the Children)

This pilot summary document provides a brief summary of the field testing of the community-based surveillance method in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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Orphanage Voluntourism In Nepal: What You Should Know

UNICEF Nepal

This short flyer from UNICEF Nepal answers the questions: What is orphanage voluntourism? Are the children in orphanages actually orphans? How can orphanage volunteering be harmful? Why is there greater risk following the 2015 earthquake? What are the risks to children of residing in orphanages? What is the solution for children that are genuine orphans? And how can you help children in Nepal?

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Effective Participation of Children and Young People in Alternative Care Settings: Guidance for Policy Makers

Carolyne Willow - The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

This guidance aims to raise awareness of the importance of children and young people in alternative care settings being able to make, influence and participate in decisions about their own lives, and other matters affecting them.

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Turning away from the public sector in children's out-of-home care: An English experiment

Nicky Stanley, Helen Austerberry, Andy Bilson, Nicola Farrelly, Shereen Hussein, Cath Larkins, Jill Manthorpe, Julie Ridley - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper reports on the evaluation of an English experiment which, for the first time, moved statutory social work support for children and young people in out-of-home care from the public to the private or independent sector.

Voices and choices: young people participating in inspections - Summary

Pam Hibbert - Consortium: Barnardo’s, First Key, National Children’s Bureau, Save the Children, Social Services Inspectorate and The Children’s Society

This report outlines the learning from a project aimed at involving care-experienced young people and the voluntary sector in the inspections of local authority children's services and identifies the added value of the approach and methods used.

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The effects of recurrent physical abuse on the co-development of behavior problems and posttraumatic stress symptoms among child welfare-involved youth

Susan Yoon, Sheila Barnhart, Jamie Cage - Child Abuse & Neglect

The primary aim of the current study was to examine the longitudinal effects of ongoing physical abuse on the co-development of externalizing behavior problems and posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms among child welfare-involved adolescents.

The emotional and behavioural symptom trajectories of children in long-term out-of-home care in an English local authority

Rachel M.Hiller & Michelle C.St. Clair - Child Abuse & Neglect

The current service-data study explored the emotional and behavioural symptom trajectories of 207 young people under the long-term care of a local authority in the South West of England, over their first five years in the care system.

Health out of foster care as young adults age out of foster care: A phenomenological exploration of seeking healthcare services after aging out of the US foster care system

Jennifer L. Collins, Rosalinda Jimenez , Laura J. Thomas - Child Abuse & Neglect

The investigators specifically queried the phenomenon of seeking healthcare services after foster care drawing from the Phenomenology of Practice approach.

The intellectual profile of abused and neglected children in the Philippines: An analysis of SB5 IQ scores of sexually abused, physically abused and neglected children

Peejay D. Bengwasan - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study explores the prediction that child abuse and neglect has an impact on Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales 5th Edition (SB5) IQ scores, in relation to gender, age and type of abuse experienced.

“Children in Charge” Imagining systemic reform and redesign in care commissioning for children: A Discussion Paper

Children England

This paper is an attempt at rethinking the systemic problems facing the funding and commissioning of care services and placements for children in need of care and adoption, across ALL types and specialisms of placement, from kinship care, through foster care, to residential care and adoption.

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En la ‘hielera:’ Condiciones abusivas para las mujeres y los niños en las celdas de detención migratoria en Estados Unidos

Human Rights Watch

Este informe examina el cumplimiento por parte de las autoridades estadounidenses de las protecciones específicas que deben otorgarse a los niños, basándose en 110 entrevistas a niños y mujeres detenidas con sus hijos.

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