This HIV Fact Sheet provides short demographics on HIV prevalence and trends in Zimbabwe

Maxim’s story illustrates the problems with institutional care and the stagnation often seen in the child protection system.

In this Innocenti Podcast, Tia Palermo discusses The Transfer Project, a government run large-scale social cash transfer program in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Este manual proporciona orientación a los profesionales que trabajan con niños con discapacidades en el cuidado residencial. 

Ce manuel fournit des conseils aux professionnels qui travaillent avec les enfants handicapés dans les soins en établissement. 

This manual provides guidance to professionals who work with children with disabilities in residential care. 

This document details the guiding principles for para professionals in the social service workforce. 

This study investigates how the relationship between youth recently emancipated from care and certain key adults affect the youths' lives.

 In this film, Charell shares the story of foster care and how she broke free from the cycle that trapped her parents.

A column from Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy reviewing two short films, which feature former foster care youths and their memories of the foster care system.

This qualitative study explored how volunteers delivering social welfare to orphans and vulnerable children through a community initiative supported by donors made sense of volunteering during a period of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe.  

Employing focus groups and participant-observation, this exploratory study examined areas of personal development, knowledge, and skills of young women who were formally in residential care in the Philippines to determine success factors for young women with traumatic histories.  

This paper examines the two basic models of the state authorities’ intervention into family life aimed at protecting children.

This paper discusses the style and efficacy of child preservation services for the purpose of reducing child abuse and neglect. 

This Supervision Guideline document from Save the Children contains guidelines and underlying principles for Pusan Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (PDAK) child and family support centre social workers in working with children and families.

Jose Luis Rodriguez III reviews the book Whose Child Am I: Unaccompanied Undocumented Children in US Immigration Custody by Susan J. Terrio. 

This article discusses the challenges in research and practice that have grown out of the evolution of volunteer tourism.

This paper analyses how social support enhances family resilience in kinship foster families by involving the families in an educational group programme. 

Key findings on the state of the United Kingdom’s foster care system by The Fostering Network note that although most foster carers say they want to continue caring for children, only 55% say that they would recommend it to others.

Key findings on the state of the United Kingdom’s foster care system by The Fostering Network note that although most foster carers say they want to continue caring for children, only 55% say that they would recommend it to others. 

Delphine Moralis discusses the 10,000 refugee children that have gone missing in the EU.

The Bulgaria Country Fact Sheet provides short details on the state of institutional care in Bulgaria.

Many young people rely on their parents when they transition into adulthood.  Young people transitioning out of alternative care rarely have that option. 

Researchers investigated the prevalence of child sexual abuse in foster care and residential care facilities and found that 3.5 children per 1,000 had been victims of child sexual abuse.