The coping of young Finnish adults after out-of-home care and aftercare services: A document-based analysis

Arja Häggman-Laitila, Pirkko Salokekkilä, Mirja Satka, Katri Toivonen, Pekka Kekolahti, Olli-Pekka Ryynänen - Children and Youth Services Review

The aim of this study is to discover how the different factors documented at the time of the custody decision or the placement in out-of-home care are associated with the coping abilities of young adults once aftercare services come to an end.

Understanding the needs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Child maltreatment prevention program development

Maha Almuneef, Hassan N. Saleheen, Fatimah Al Shehri, Majid A. Al-Eissa - Child Abuse & Neglect

The goal of this study was to assess the child maltreatment (CM) prevention readiness (CMPR) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in regard to implementing large-scale, evidence-based CM-prevention programs. 

The Role of Kinship and Siblings in Young Children's Placement Preferences

Kelli Dickerson, Thomas D. Lyon, Jodi Quas - Journal of Interpersonal Violence

In this study, the authors surveyed one hundred 4- to 11-year-olds removed from home because of maltreatment about their placement preferences. These results suggest that young children may express more mature preferences than recognized by the law, and that there may be value in asking even relatively young children about with whom they would like to live following removal from home as a result of maltreatment.

Personal psychological resources mediate parent–child relationship and mental health among left‐behind children

Imelu G. Mordeno, I Marie Joy S. Gallemit, Sittie Shayuri B. Lantud, Brian J. Hall - The Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The present study examined the association between family resources and mental health as mediated by personal psychological resources (PPRs) for left‐behind children (LBC).

Differential Associations of Deprivation and Threat With Cognitive Control and Fear Conditioning in Early Childhood

Laura Machlin, Adam Bryant Miller, Jenna Snyder, Katie A. McLaughlin and Margaret A. Sheridan - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The present open access study examines how deprivation (including institutionalization) and threat are associated with cognitive and emotional outcomes in early childhood.

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Attachment, dependency, and attachment-related behaviors in foster children: A closer look at the nature of the foster child–caregiver relationship

Melanie Tamara Kungl, Sandra Gabler, Ina Bovenschen, Katrin Lang, Janin Zimmermann, Gottfried Spangler - Developmental Child Welfare

This study investigates the nature of newly formed relationships between children and their foster carers.

Analysis on geographical migration networks of child trafficking crime for illegal adoption from 2008 to 2017 in China

Zhongliang Huang & Wenguo Weng - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

This paper used the latest judgment documents from the court as a new data source, and identified the key nodes and trafficking paths by using a series of network indicators to enhance the public’s understanding of the crime mechanism of child trafficking.

Initial Assessment Report: Protection Risks for Women and Girls in the European Refugee and Migrant Crisis

Rebecca Eapen, UNHCR; Fabrizia Falcione, UNFPA; Marcy Hersh, WRC; Katharina Obser, WRC; Ali Shaar, UNFPA

Concerned by the protection risks faced by women and girls, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) undertook a joint seven-day assessment mission to Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in November 2015. This report describes the assessment’s findings and key recommendations for the European Union (EU), transit and destination country governments, humanitarian actors and civil society organizations (CSOs).

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Interagency Gender Based Violence Case Management Guidelines: Providing care and case management services to gender-based violence survivors in humanitarian settings

Gender-based Violence Information Management System (GBVIMS)

This resource aims to set standards for quality, compassionate care for GBV survivors in humanitarian settings, with particular focus on the provision of case management services.

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Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) 2015-2018: Family Resilience (FARE) Project End of Project Report

AVSI Foundation

This report describes the FARE project - a subproject of ASPIRES that sought to develop evidence and programming guidance for matching contextually appropriate economic interventions with specifically targeted households to reintegrate separated children into families and prevent unnecessary separation of children from their families - and summarizes achievements, challenges, and learning.

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Action Plan to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Children 2017-2021

The Steering Committee on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children

This Action Plan to prevent and respond to violence against children in Cambodia identifies five key areas of intervention: 1) coordination and cooperation, 2) primary prevention, 3) multi-sectoral child protection response services, 4) law and policy formulation and amendment, 5) monitoring and evaluation.

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Social-support needs among adolescents living with HIV in transition from pediatric to adult care in Cambodia: Findings from a cross-sectional study

Graham Toth, Gitau Mburu, Sovannary Tuot, Vohith Khol, Chanrith Ngin, Pheak Chhoun and Siyan Yi - AIDS Research and Therapy

This study describes access, utilization and ongoing social support needs among adolescents living with HIV aged 15–17 in transition from pediatric to adult HIV care in Cambodia.

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Technology Influence on Performance of Cash Transfer Programmes in the Public Sector in Nairobi County, Kenya

Beth Njoroge, Peter Kihara, Paul Gichohi - International Journal of Professional Practice

The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between technology as a capacity building strategy and performance of the orphans and vulnerable children cash transfer program in Nairobi County, Kenya.

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Mental well-being among children in foster care: The role of supportive adults

Carly Elizabeth Magee, Martin Guhn, Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl, Eva Oberle - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examined associations between perceived support from adults in three developmental contexts (home, school and neighbourhood) and mental well-being (life satisfaction, self-concept, optimism) among grade four children living with foster parents in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada.

Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children into Families: Children and Youth Savings Groups – A Learning Brief

ChildFund International and FHI 360

This Learning Brief draws on project documents,focus group discussions and individual interviews to document ChildFund International’s experience with Children and Youth Savings Groups for highly vulnerable children in Uganda’s Kamuli, Luwero and Gulu Districts through the Economic Strengthening for Families (ESFAM) Project.

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Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children into Families (ESFAM): Matched Savings Accounts – A Learning Brief

ChildFund International and FHI 360

This Learning Brief draws on information collected via focus group discussions, individual interviews, and project data to describe ESFAM’s experience with and learning from its MSA intervention, which aimed to encourage families to save for educational expenses, so that they would not have to send their children to residential care institutions for school.

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The Rights of Vulnerable Children Under the Age of Three: Ending their placement in institutional care

Dainius Puras - The Regional Office for Europe of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (ROE OHCHR)

This document was commissioned by the Regional Office for Europe of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (ROE OHCHR). One of its aims was to stimulate discussion at the Sub-Regional Workshop on the Rights of Vulnerable Children Aged 0 to 3 Years in Prague on 22 November 2011.

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Association between parental visitation and depressive symptoms among institutionalized children in Japan: a cross-sectional study

Aki Yazawa, Saeko Takada, Hanako Suzuki, Takashi X. Fujisawa and Akemi Tomoda - BMC Psychiatry

The objectives of this open access study were to investigate the association between parental visitation and depressive symptoms among institutionalized children in Japan, and to explore whether the established security of attachment interacts with that association.

Working memory moderates the association between early institutional care and separation anxiety symptoms in late childhood and adolescence

Laura Alicia Alba, Jessica Flannery, Mor Shapiro and Nim Tottenham - Development and Psychopathology

In this study, working memory (WM) was examined during late childhood/adolescence as an intra-individual factor to mitigate the risk for separation anxiety, which is particularly susceptible to caregiving adversities, such as previous institutionalization (PI).

Can coders abstract child maltreatment variables from child welfare administrative data and case narratives for public health surveillance in Canada?

Lil Tonmyr, Margot Shields, Ajani Asokumar, Wendy Hovdestad, Jessica Laurin, Shamir Mukhi, Linda Burnside - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study assesses the feasibility of hiring coders to abstract the required information from administrative records and case narratives, to inform programs that aim to eradicate child maltreatment (CM) and to provide services to children and families in Canada.

The Production and Reproduction of Kinship in Charitable Children’s Institutions in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

Allison Gayapersad, Caroline Ombok, Allan Kamanda, Carren Tarus, David Ayuku, Paula Braitstein - Child & Youth Care Forum

The goal of this study was to examine whether and how alternative kinship structures were reproduced in Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs) in Kenya.

A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Family and Parenting Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Child and Youth Mental Health Outcomes

Gloria A. Pedersen, Eva Smallegange, April Coetzee, Kim Hartog, Jasmine Turner, Felicity L. Brown, Mark J. D. Jordans - Journal of Child and Family Studies

This open access review presents evidence for family- and parent-focused interventions on mental health outcomes for children and youth in LMIC and identifies treatment components present in promising interventions.

Preliminary psychometric evidence of the Greek adaptation to the EC-CC HOME scale for use in institutional environments

Anna Touloumakos, Alexia Barrable, Kalomoira Tsantila - Advances in Developmental and Educational Psychology

Given the impact that institutional care has been found to have on psychological and cognitive outcomes, the authors make the case for the adaptation of Early Childhood Child Care HOME (EC-CC-HOME), a world-renowned instrument that assesses children’s child-care environment, to the Greek context.

Survivors of institutional abuse in long-term child care in Scotland

Alan Carr, Finiki Nearchou, Hollie Duff, Dearbhaile Ní Mhaoileoin, Katie Cullen, Annie O’Dowd, Laaura Battigelli - Child Abuse & Neglect

The objective of this research project was to profile the experiences of survivors abused in long-term child care in Scotland, and to develop a model which linked maltreatment, risk and protective factors, and outcomes.

Children and youth in out-of-home care: What can predict an initial change in placement?

Merav Jedwab, Yanfeng Xu, Daniel Keyser, Terry V. Shaw - Child Abuse & Neglect

The objectives of this study were: (a) to measure the time-to-initial placement change in different types of settings, including non-relative foster homes, kinship care, residential treatment centers (RTC), group homes and other types of settings; and (b) to identify predictors of the initial placement change.

Balkans Migration and Displacement Hub Data and Trend Analysis: Regional overview (October-December 2018)

Save the Children in North West Balkans

Data and Trend Analysis (DATA) Refugees and Migrants at the Western Balkans Route Regional Overview, covering period October - December 2018, describes key trends in migrations in the region, detailing information about the number of people on the move, demography (age, sex, country of origin, etc), behavioral patterns, and routes in use - with a focus on children, particularly unaccompanied children. Data in this report includes key trends in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia.

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Hazards to Early Development: The Biological Embedding of Early Life Adversity

Charles Nelson - Biological Psychiatry

This talk, given by Dr Charles Nelson, focuses on two strands of work that reflect very different types of adversity: (1) the effects of early, profound psychosocial deprivation (including a review of the most recent findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an intervention for early institutionalization in Romania) and (2) the effects of growing up in a low resource urban center where children are exposed to a large number of both biological (e.g., malnutrition) and psychosocial (maltreatment) stressors (including a review of recent findings from a large study taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Inequalities in English Child Protection Practice under Austerity: A Universal Challenge?

Paul Bywaters, Geraldine Brady, Lisa Bunting, Brigid Daniel, Brigid Featherstone, Chantel Jones, Kate Morris, Jonathan Scourfield, Tim Sparks, Calum Webb - Child and Family Social Work

This article focuses on the relationship between economic inequality and out-of-home care and child protection interventions in England.

Forced separations: A qualitative examination of how Latino/a adolescents cope with parental deportation

Kristina Lovato - Children and Youth Services Review

While previous studies have focused on the effects of parental deportation on young children, this study uniquely contributes to the literature by exploring how adolescents experience and cope with a forced family separation.

Caring and thriving: An international qualitative study of caregivers of orphaned and vulnerable children and strategies to sustain positive mental health

Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell, et al - Children and Youth Services Review

The study's objective was to determine what successful caregivers of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) in diverse countries do to sustain their positive mental health.

Evaluation of Parenting Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Children in Colombia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Ane-Marthe Solheim Skar, Lorraine Sherr, Ana Macedo, Stephen von Tetzchner, Knut Inge Fostervold - Journal of Interpersonal Violence

In this study, the effects of the International Child Development Programme (ICDP) and the specific addition of a violence prevention module were observed in a preidentified population in Colombia where children are experiencing high levels of violence.