Harrowing Journeys: Children and youth on the move across the Mediterranean Sea, at risk of trafficking and exploitation

UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

This joint report from UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) explores in detail survey data from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe, focusing on adolescents and youth on the move from Africa and Asia.

File

Breaking social barriers: A participatory observation of social-media interactions in an undergraduate-student mentorship of at-risk youth at a foster care institution in Puerto Rico

Elenita Irizarry Ramos - University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

This thesis paper employed qualitative methods to capture the online interaction of undergraduate volunteers as part of an undergraduate-student mentorship program. This program was developed to provide mentorship and tutoring for at-risk-youth at a foster care institution.

Care leavers in early adulthood: How do they fare in England, Finland and Germany?

Claire Cameron, Katie Hollingworth, Ingrid Schoon, Eric van Santen, Wolfgang Schröer, Tiina Ristikari, Tarja Heino, Elina Pekkarinen - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper examines the longer term outcomes of young people who experienced out of home care (OHC) as children, in Britain, Germany and Finland, countries characterised by different welfare regimes. 

Care-‘less’: exploring the interface between child care and parental control in the context of child rights for workers in children’s homes in Ghana

Ernest Darkwah, Marguerite Daniel, Joana Salifu Yendork - BMC International Health and Human Rights

This study explored how employed caregivers experience the interface between child care, parental control and child rights in the context of Children’s Homes in Ghana.

File

Our Lives Our Care: Looked after children’s views on their well-being in 2017

Professor Julie Selwyn, Levana Magnus and Dr Bobby Stuijfzand - University of Bristol School for Policy Studies and Coram Voice

This report from the University of Bristol School for Poicy Studies and Coram Voice presents findings from a 2017 survey, in which 2,263 looked after children and young people from 16 local authorities in the United Kingdom completed the ‘Your Life, Your Care’ survey to determine their subjective, self-reported wellbeing. 

File

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Among Youths Living in Group Care Homes: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Roy F. Oman, Sara K. Vesely, Jennifer Green, Kristen Clements-Nolle, Minggen Lu - American Journal of Public Health

The objective of this study was to determine if the Power Through Choices (PTC) intervention can increase the use of birth control and reduce pregnancy among system-involved youths living in group care homes.

Residential Child Care in England

Jonathan Stanley - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care

This article provides a summary of the current context for residential child care in England. It records continually increasing outcomes as evidenced in a new set of Quality Standards by a new inspection framework.

File

Emergency Within an Emergency: The Growing Epidemic of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Children in Greece

Vasileia Digidiki & Jacqueline Bhabha - Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University

The present study analyzes the risk factors responsible for the exposure of migrant and refugee children to physical, psychological, and sexual violence and exploitation in Greece in the context of the ongoing migrant humanitarian crisis. 

File

Safe Spaces: The Urgent Need for Early Childhood Development in Emergencies and Disasters

Kolleen Bouchane, Molly Curtiss, and Bethany Ellis - Best Start, Theirworld

This paper from Best Start (a global campaign for Early Childhood Development led by children’s charity Theirworld) emphasizes the need for holistic early childhood development (ECD) programs - Safe Spaces - for young children in emergency situations. 

File

Alternative Child Care and Deinstitutionalisation: A case study of Nepal

Dr Chrissie Gale and Mr. Chandrika Khatiwada - SOS Children's Villages, CELCIS, European Commission

The report investigates why children are placed into alternative care, what types of alternative care are available in Nepal, what structures and processes govern alternative care, how the alternative care workforce are trained and supported, and what is and is not working in Nepal's current system. It concludes with recommendations for enhancing alternative care in the country.

File

Strengthening Families, Ending Institutional Care: Recommendations to the European Union on Post-2020 Multi-Annual Financial Framework

Opening Doors for Europe's Children

This report from Opening Doors for Europe's Children presents recommendations to the EU on how best to include deinstitutionalization and children's care as a part of the next multiannual financial framework.

File

Stress and coping mechanisms among adolescents living in orphanages: An experience from Klang Valley, Malaysia

Marjan Mohammadzadeh PhD, Hamidin Awang MD, Suriani Ismail PhD, Hayati Kadir Shahar PhD - Asia-Pacific Psychiatry

This study aimed to assess both the prevalence of stress and the coping mechanisms as well as identify the predictors of stress levels among adolescents in Malaysian orphanages.