Strengthening Families: How Family Strengthening Can Help Prevent the Unnecessary Separation of Children from their Families

SOS Children's Villages

This document makes the case for the importance of investing in family strengthening in countries across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It has a particular focus on support for families so that any unnecessary separation of children from their families and placement in alternative care can be prevented.

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Combination of “Parenting with Tenderness” and “Parenting on the Move” in Migratory Contexts: Successes, challenges, and recommendations

Save the Children Spain

The objective of this Save the Children Spain document is to gather the key findings of the combination of “Parenting with tenderness” and “Parenting on the move” in migratory contexts. It also seeks to improve the quality of its implementation in the context of Mexican migration, based on good practices and lessons learned. 

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Webinar Recording: Launch of the Transition Cost Estimation Tool

Transforming Children's Care Collaborative

The purpose of this webinar was to launch the tool, provide background information on its development, the analysis that underpins it, and conduct a virtual walk through of the tool.

El propósito de este seminario web fue lanzar la herramienta, proporcionar información de antecedentes sobre su desarrollo, el análisis que la sustenta y realizar un recorrido virtual por la herramienta.

Mutual Benefits: The Lessons Learned from a Community-Based Participatory Research Project with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and Foster Carers

Justin Rogers, Sam Carr, Caroline Hickman - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper presents a community based participatory research project, which adopted a photovoice approach with seven unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) living in foster care in the United Kingdom.

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Beyond a Dreamcatcher - Improving Services for Indigenous Justice Involved Youth with Substance Use Challenges: A Youth-led Study

McCreary Centre Society’s Youth Research Academy (YRA)

This youth-led study sought to capture the perspectives of Indigenous youth who had been involved in the criminal justice system (or who were at high risk of such involvement), and who had accessed substance use treatment and/or had experienced barriers to accessing substance use services.

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Learning from Lived Experience in Government Care: Sharing Gains in Knowledge and Practice in Youth Participation with Key Care Stakeholders

Jade Purtell, Luke Westwick, Brittany Witnish, Jarrad Butcher, Annie [Withheld], Ralph Salera, Jenna Bollinger

This paper presents three care experienced perspectives on the benefits and challenges of capturing the voices of young people to inform policy and organisational decision-making in youth services.

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Examining the Role of Lived Experience Consultants in an Australian Research Study on the Educational Experiences of Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care

Philip Mendes, Jade Purtell, Sarah Morris, Emily Berger, Susan Baidawi, Levita D’Souza, Jenna Bollinger, Natasha Anderson, Geordie Armstrong

This paper presents the findings of a study in the Australian state of Victoria where a group of lived experience consultants (LECs) were employed to consult on the results of a broader survey of the attitudes of professionals, carers and care leavers regarding the educational experiences of children in out-of-home care.

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Qualitative Social Work

Transforming Children's Care Webinar #13: Learning from Participatory Research with Careleavers: Experiences from Latin America and Australia

Transforming Children's Care Collaborative

Drawing from the learning from participatory research in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Australia, this webinar introduced different approaches used to engage individuals with lived experience of alternative care in research efforts.

United States Catholic Support for Overseas Residential Care: A Survey and Research Investigation of Catholic Organizations in the United States

Changing the Way We Care

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) conducted a study on the support by U.S. Catholic organizations for overseas residential care of children in 2018. This report provides insights from the study on U.S. Catholic Church support for children’s residential care facilities outside of the U.S. Its data provides a foundation for building effective engagement and messaging strategies, as well as helps inform advocacy and influence work concerning support for family strengthening and care for vulnerable children by the U.S. Catholic community.

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