Protective Factors Action Sheet

The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)

This guide from the Center for the Study of Social Policy's Strengthening Families project aims to provide case workers and practitioners with information on: building parental resilience and capacity, enhancing and leveraging parents' social connections, providing information on child development, connecting parents to resources, offering concrete support to parents in times of need, and more.

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Shared Family Care: Providing Services to Parents and Children Placed Together in Out-of-Home Care

Price Amy, Richard P. Barth - Family Foster Care in the Next Century

This article, a chapter from the book Family Foster Care in the Next Century, describes several innovative types of shared family care arrangements that demonstrate promise in the protection of children and the promotion of family well-being.

Completing the Evaluation Triangle for the Next Century: Measuring Child “Well-Being” in Family Foster Care

James P. Gleeson, Altshuler Sandra J. - Family Foster Care in the Next Century

This article, a chapter in the book Family Foster Care in the Next Century, describes how child well-being has been conceptualized and measured in research on family foster care, and discusses the essential dimensions that should be included in a useful measure of child well-being.

Troubled teens and challenged caregivers: Characteristics associated with the decision to provide child welfare services to adolescents in Ontario, Canada

Bryn King, Barbara Fallon, Joanne Filippelli, Tara Black, Carolyn O'Connor - Children and Youth Services Review

This study uses data from the provincially representative Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS-2013) to identify the characteristics of the alleged maltreatment, functioning concerns, caregiver risk factors, and socioeconomic conditions associated with the decision to provide ongoing child welfare services to adolescents and their families.

What does “recovery” from mental illness and addiction mean? Perspectives from child protection social workers and from parents living with mental distress

Anne Lorraine Scott, Kelly Pope, Donald Quick, Bella Aitken, Adele Parkinson - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper analyzes the perspectives of eleven social workers doing child protection work and examines the accounts of thirteen parents living with mental illness or addiction who have been involved in child custody investigations in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Substantiated Child Maltreatment: Which factors do workers focus on when making this critical decision?

Stoddart J.K., Fallon B., Trocmé N., Fluke J. - Children and Youth Services Review

Utilizing data from the Ontario Incidence study 2013, this paper examines what child, family and environmental characteristics workers paid attention to when making the determination that a child had experienced maltreatment.

Lost in Transition? The mitigating role of social capital in negotiating life after care of youth from Romania and England

Georgiana Trif - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent

This study examined care leavers' own safety net and how they negotiate independent living, aimed at understanding strategies used to negotiate independent living through the lenses of social capital and social networks.

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2018 Prevention Resource Guide: Keeping Children Safe and Families Strong in Supportive Communities

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau - Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Child Welfare Information Gateway, & the FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention

The 2018 Prevention Resource Guide was designed to support service providers as they work with families to promote child well-being and prevent child maltreatment.

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Descriptions from Motherless Infants’ Caregivers in an Institution in Rural Tanzania

Kari Vik (KV), Vickfarajaeli Zebedayo Daudi (VZD), Lusajo Joel Kajula (LJK), Rolf Rohde (RR), Omary Said Ubuguyu (OSU), Joseph Ndukusi Saibulu (JNS) - Infancy and Caring

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.

Stakeholder perceptions of barriers and facilitators to sexual health discussions between foster and kinship caregivers and foster youth: A qualitative study

Jessica Serrano, Julia M. Crouch, Katie Albertson, Kym R. Ahrens - Children and Youth Services Review

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.