This study examined the odds of reentry across multiple common permanency types for a cohort of 8107 children who achieved permanency between 2009 and 2013. 

This article explores sexuality education and sexual healthcare for female adolescents in foster care with ID/DD and recommends practice guidelines to support and prepare their emergent sexual development.

This cross-sectional descriptive study found that poverty is the main reason children stay and work on the street.  

This document is an evaluation of Retrak’s reintegration of street children and community-based child protection project in SNNPR, Ethiopia.

Bill Ong Hing shares his experiences on running a law school deportation clinic in California. 

A summary of the International Alternative Care Conference 2016 via Storify.

This article examines adoption and foster care placement policies as they pertain to the competing interests of religious freedom and equal protection for same-sex couples.

The report highlights the constant threat of sexual violence, exploitation, and child marriage that adolescents and girls face in Syria.

This document provides analysis of child protection needs and risks at the government level to support child protection actors in programmed development, resource mobilasation and advocacy.

In this video from VICE, undocumented children face danger attempting to cross the border into the U.S. from Mexico.  Those who end up in detention live in squalid, prison-like conditions.

This Evidence Brief provides an overview of the systematic review. 

This Executive Summary provides an overview of the systematic review. 

This document highlights principles used to guide actions concerning children on the move and affected by migration.

The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence, comorbidity and socio-demographic correlates of common mental disorders among orphan and vulnerable children (OVCs) in residential care.

This study aimed to assess the prevalence and risk factors of depression, anxiety, stress and low self-esteem among institutional Malaysian adolescents.

This is an explorative study undertaken in central and south part of the Mumbai with the objective of investigating socio-economic, demographic and cultural characteristics of street adolescents in Mumbai.

The aim of this article is to study the situation on realizing children’s rights in Poland and in Russia in the context of Janusz Korczak’s principles.

This study seeks to understand collaboration dynamics in social services for determining what strategies work best in facilitating collaborative endeavors in specific policy and institutional environments.

This study underscores the fact that visible minority families receiving child protective services are a far from homogeneous group and that there are a number of effective methods that can be used with them.

This document contains an overview of a 10-year study conducted in Australia on trends in child protection outcomes across jurisdictions.

This study captures the lived experiences of twenty-four young Indian girls who have left care in the past four years. It addresses their journey of moving out of care at two levels — their preparation to leave care and their present experience.

 Using the accumulated wisdom of a select group of accomplished managers, academics and policy makers in social work and social care, this paper retrospectively reviews the evolution of Family Support within the Irish context and distils the core characteristics of Family Support practice and service delivery. 

This paper draws on a British Academy (BA) funded study exploring social workers’ conceptions of family using a vignette and focus groups. 

 This paper reports findings from an ethnographic study in which the researcher notes and gathers personal accounts relating to material and non-material exchanges between professionals and parents.

This paper reviews the case of Daniel Pelka, a child in Scotland who was murdered at the hands of his mother and her partner.  

Street children in Nigeria face risks of being recruited by terrorist organizations.  This program held by American University of Nigeria hopes to reduce children’s risks of recruitment.

Each year Retrak maps the locations of family reintegration placements and tracks trends in locations over time. They have used this information to help them understand the geographic spread of children coming to the streets and to target prevention programmes on ‘’hotspots’’- places from which many children migrate to the streets.

This report looks at the adaptation of Retrak’s Family Reintegration Standard Operating Procedures in the context of children in temporary youth detention institutions, known as remand homes, in Uganda. 

This small research project was conceived to investigate the issues surrounding economic strengthening with Retrak Ethiopia’s reintegration programmes with the aim of seeking new ways to address the challenges.

This study sought to inform improvements in service delivery of Retrak’s Independent Living programme by listening to and documenting the voices of participants. 

Entre el 7 y 11 de marzo de 2017, investigadores de Disability Rights International (DRI) viajaron a Guatemala para entrevistar los sobrevivientes de vivienda institucional. Este documento presente la información recopilada y las recomendaciones de DRI a Guatemala.

The purpose of this paper is to map the current organisation and implementation of children’s services in three regions of Spain, to identify strengths and gaps and to suggest proposals for improvement in line with European recommendations.

This Report by Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez, to the UN Human Rights Council focuses on children deprived of their liberty from the perspective of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. It addresses the situation of children in institutions, and in particular their torture and ill-treament. 

This document provides a formative assessment on the state of children with disabilities in Zambia.

This study investigates the correlation over time between international adoption and institutional care.

This brief summarizes recent findings from two global, systematic reviews on the effectiveness of parenting interventions. 

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book finds today's youth — Generation Z — are healthier and completing high school on time despite mounting economic inequality and increasingly unaffordable college tuition.

The EAC Child Policy is the culmination of various processes geared towards the harmonisation of standards on and approaches to the implementation of child rights in the EAC. 

Este documento pretende impulsar un cambio en el paradigma de la institucionalización como respuesta a la situación de los niños, niñas y adolescentes privados de cuidados familiares. 

The goal of this final evaluation is to build on the mid-term review of a 3-year pilot community project established to address some of the push factors that were leading many children to come to the city of Addis Ababa from Ethiopia’s southern region (SNNPR). 

Due to poverty and military conflicts in the east, the number of children in institutional care in Ukraine has increased.

As of this Fact Sheet, Serbia has no comprehensive deinstitutionalization strategy. 

In 2018, there were still 185 institutions in Romania housing 6,632 children. 2,997 children with disabilities were living in 81 institutions for children with disabilities in Romania. The majority of children in out-of-home care were placed in family based care, including 18,317 children in foster care and 18,437 children in kinship care.

This Country Fact Sheet discusses Poland’s recent reforms to its institutional care system. 

This Country Fact Sheet from Moldova reports that since 2007, the number of children in institutional care has dropped from 12,000 to 2,214. 

Opening Doors for Children report in this Country Fact Sheet that despite the country’s efforts, Lithuania’s institutional rates remain very high.

This Country Fact Sheet from Latvia reports that there are currently 1,429 children in Latvia living in institutional care facilities.

This Country Fact Sheet discusses deinstitutionalization as part of Hungary’s child welfare and protection policy.