This paper aims at describing how caregivers at an institution for motherless infants in rural Tanzania perceive infancy, caring and sensitivity in their everyday context.
This study sought to ascertain whether neglected children’s responses to leading questions distinguish them from those of their non-neglected counterparts.
This study explored stakeholder perceptions of barriers and facilitators to conversations about sexual health between foster/kinship caregivers and youth in foster care, with the goal of developing a brief, scalable sexual health training for caregivers.
This issue of the New Directions for Community Colleges journal is focused on higher education opportunities for foster youth.
This report presents a joint NGO roadmap for more fair and humane policies for refugee and migrant youth in Greece.
This presentation describes the progress of the "Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care Innovation Fund Integrated Care " project currently being undertaken by Children's Health Queensland.
The focus of this paper is an evaluation of educational projects which have been designed and operated for the reception of unaccompanied minors in a series of Italian schools.
In this chapter from the The Twenty-third Italian Report on Migrations 2017, the authors provide a picture of the presences and characteristics of the unaccompanied minors present in the EU countries, and in particular in Italy, to then illustrate the main innovations introduced by law 47, approved on 7 April 2017.
This ethnographic study of a foster care adoption program shows how board payments elicit commodification anxiety at this local site, and in American culture more broadly.
This study assesses psychological well-being, risk, and resilience of youth currently in-care and former foster youth and how preparation for independent living affects these factors.
This study aims to observe the effect of structured education provided to improve self-esteem and hope on the self-esteem and the suicide probability of male adolescents living in orphanages.
The aim of the study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature on factors that determine decision making in child protection investigations.
The article examines how 36 child welfare caseworkers in 6 different teams in Norway investigate, assess, and make decisions at the phase of an incoming referral.
This guide from Coram Voice in the UK provides guidance to youth leaving or aging out of the foster care system, including informing care-leavers of their rights.
This blog post from Child Trends presents findings from an evaluation of three models of trauma-informed care in the US child welfare system.
This report from the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance highlights the many ways that the social service workforce positively impacts the lives of children and families affected by violence.
This article examines the practice of child-centered principles in the UK child protection and public child law systems.
This article describes the results of a scoping review to better understand child welfare professionals' and service users' (families' and children's) perspectives on and experiences with family engagement in the child protection system.
This article is an analysis of a State sponsored scheme in Rajasthan, the Palanhar Yojana, which has been successful in demonstrating the success of the scheme as an instrument of family strengthening.
This brief guide from Casey Family Programs lays out strategies for recruiting and retaining tribal foster families for American Indian and Alaska Native children, ensuring that indigenous children can stay in their communities.
The Community Opportunity Map is a tool that allows users to see localized indicators connected to community health and maltreatment prevention.
This study evaluated a university-agency developed competency-based curriculum and field placement on child welfare for BSW and MSW students.
This study examines a program (iHeLP) for substance use reduction in foster youth aging out of care.
This study explored whether trust in caregiver support and communication about experiences with primary caregivers, are associated with Child Welfare System (CWS) youngsters’ depressive symptoms and/or self-harm.
