Children’s participation and agency in Italian residential care for children: Adult-child interactions at dinnertime

Marzia Saglietti & Cristina Zucchermaglio - European Journal of Psychology of Education

This paper analyzes the impact of adults’ interactive moves and strategies on children’s participation and agency at dinnertime in two Italian residential care facilities, one of the most widely used alternative care life-context for children and youth coming from vulnerable families.

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Data-informed recommendations for faith communities desiring to support vulnerable children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nicole Gilbertson Wilke & Amanda Hiles Howard - Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought

The current study provides data-informed recommendations for faith communities to support vulnerable families during the pandemic.

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Foster Kinship Navigator Program: A Two Study Mixed-Method Evaluation Project

Dr. Mark S. Preston - Preston Management and Organizational Consulting

This qualitative evaluation was to determine the level of fidelity of Clark County Nevada’s Foster Kinship navigator program to its navigator program manual and to ascertain if Foster Kinship’s navigator program for formal kinship families met the minimum standard for promising practice.

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Proximal outcomes of Connecting, an evidence-based, family-focused prevention program for caregivers of adolescents in foster care

Kevin P. Haggerty, Susan E. Barkan, Martie L. Skinner, Koren Hanson - Children and Youth Services Review

This study experimentally tested proximal outcomes of Connecting, a low-cost, self-directed, family-based substance-use prevention program for foster families.

Case Studies of Programmes to Promote and Protect Nurturing Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kristy Hackett, Kerrie Proulx, Carina Omoeva - FHI360 and Lego Foundation

This Case Study Report, prepared in partnership with World Health Organization (WHO) and the LEGO Foundation, describes the implementation experiences and emerging lessons of COVID-19 response strategies of seven programmes that prioritize nurturing care and early childhood development (ECD) in their work.

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Co-Reporting of Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence: The Likelihood of Substantiations and Foster Care Placements

Rebecca Rebbe, Andrea Lane Eastman, Avanti Adhia, Regan Foust, Emily Putnam-Hornstein - Child Maltreatment

The current study used population-based administrative records from California to assess how CPS responds to reported allegations of IPV, with and without physical abuse and/or neglect allegations.

Grabación de Seminario de Web: Transforming Children's Care Seminario #2 - Guía en Gasto Público

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform

Este seminario web es el segundo de una serie de la Plataforma de colaboración global Transforming Children's Care. En el seminario web, Philip Goldman de Maestral International presentó una nueva guía sobre gasto público y cuidado de los niños producida por Changing the Way We Care, que está diseñada para fortalecer la capacidad de las agencias gubernamentales en países de bajos recursos para preparar un marco presupuestario sólido.

Transforming Children's Care Webinar #2 - Guidance on Public Expenditure

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform

This webinar is the second in a series for the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. In the webinar, Philip Goldman from Maestral International presented new guidance on Public Expenditure and Children’s Care produced by Changing the Way We Care, which is designed to strengthen the capacity of government agencies in low resource settings to prepare a sound budgetary framework.

Webinar Recording - Child protection and philanthropy: join the conversation

UBS Optimus Foundation

The conversation of this webinar focused on the root causes of why there are millions of children globally growing outside of families, and discussed some of the proven ways of strengthening families and communities to provide a safe and nurturing environment for the world’s most at risk and vulnerable children.

Transformation of Social Services in Ukraine: the Deinstitutionalization and Reform of the Institutional Care System for Children

Liudmyla Kryvachuk - Labor et Educatio

This article focuses on the study of current transformation processes occurring in Ukraine in the provision of social services to various groups of children, in particular orphan children and children deprived of parental care.

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Nutritional Status of Under-five Children living in Orphanages compared with their Counterparts living with their Families in Host Communities in Lagos State

Izuka MO, Olatona FA, Adeniyi OF, Onajole AT - Journal of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care

This study was conducted to determine and compare the nutritional status of children living in orphanages and children living in the host communities in Nigeria.

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Restorative Parenting: Delivering Trauma-Informed Residential Care for Children in Care

S. L. Parry, T. Williams & C. Burbidge - Child & Youth Care Forum

Using a novel multisystemic trauma-informed model of care with an embedded developmental monitoring index, the Restorative Parenting Recovery Programme, pilot data was collected from young people and care staff from four residential homes over a two-year period.

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Foster Care, Permanency, and Risk of Prison Entry

Sarah Font, Lawrence M. Berger, Jessie Slepicka, Maria Cancan - Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

The purpose of this study was to examine associations of foster care exit type (e.g., reunification with birth family, adoption, guardianship/permanent relative placement, or emancipation from care) with risk of entry into state prison in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and to examine racial disparities in those associations.

Empowering Culturally Diverse Populations Affected by Violence: Realizing the Promise of Family Strengthening Interventions

Jordan Farrar and Theresa S. Betancourt - Handbook of Political Violence and Children: Psychosocial Effects, Intervention, and Prevention Policy

This chapter reports on one such intervention, the Family Strengthening Intervention (FSI), initially developed and tested in Rwanda to improve communication and parenting in HIV/AIDS-affected families with school-age children.

Psychological Capital Development in Street Children through Education at Child Protection & Welfare Bureau, Lahore

Nauman A. Abdullah, Amtul Javaid, Sonia Omar - Journal of Elementary Education

The present research study was aimed at exploring the Psychological Capital Development in Street Children through Education at Child Protection and Welfare Bureau, Lahore.

Manufacturing Moral Panic: Weaponizing Children to Undermine Gender Justice and Human Rights

Elevate Children Funders Group and Global Philanthropy Project with the research team Sentiido

This report explores how gender-restrictive groups are using child protection rhetoric to manufacture moral panic and mobilize against human rights, and how this strengthens the illiberal politics currently undermining democracies.

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