Marking the 10th anniversary of the adoption of Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, this booklet from SOS Children's Villages International informs children and young people about their right to live in a supportive family environment in accordance with the Guidelines.

This report and recommendations have been developed to improve the housing journey of care leavers in Scotland, and prevent homelessness for people with experience of care.

The present exploratory study aimed to describe and profile the characteristics of children placed in kinship care and their mothers, as reported before placement.

The aim of this study was to examine factors and processes of change that occurred through participation in a residential family preservation/reunification programme from the perspectives of service users and staff.

Based on experience from work on the ground, this report from Save the Children identifies a number of key issues that urgently need to be addressed by the EU and its Member States to ensure better management of mixed migration flows for children and their families, including separated and unaccompanied children.

This study examined whether and how postadoption parenting promotes recovery in children experiencing early life adversity in the form of institutional care. Results support the notion that postadoption parenting during toddlerhood and the early preschool years promotes better regulation skills following early adversity.

This article gives specific information on a program in Missouri, USA that took the emerging therapeutic foster family approach and added a novel component: training deaf families to become therapeutic foster parents, including how it was established, what problems arose, and what solutions were tried.

This systematic review provides a synthesis of empirical findings related to mental Health of Orphans and Vulnerable Children within the context of HIV/AIDS in developing countries.

This study sought to examine social protection mechanisms for children living on the streets of Uganda, a case study of Kampala.

The goal of this paper is to describe a pilot effort to provide empirically sound self-advocacy resource kits to parents in the child welfare system in one Indiana county in the United States, in partnership with the organization that aims to advocate for the best interests of children at the center of these cases—Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA).

This study investigated the experiences of the cohort of young people from Wales receiving secure orders between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2018.

This study tested the hypothesis that group home size moderates peer influence-conduct problem relationships such that large homes with many residents are relatively risky places, while smaller homes with fewer residents are relatively protected places.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the extent to which the core tenets of attachment, identity, self-efficacy, and critical race theories collectively explain or validate experiences of school engagement and academic outcomes among pregnant and parenting teens in the child welfare system.

The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the type, format and content/competencies of published foster parent preservice training, study characteristics of published preservice training research, and the methodological characteristics and primary findings of published foster parent preservice training research.

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain care available to the rural elderly persons and their role as carers for their grandchildren and implications on their wellbeing.

The objective of this study was to examine associations between being the subject of child protection reports in early childhood and diagnoses of mental disorders during middle childhood, by level of service response.

This chapter’s aim is to report the experience of using Ecological Engagement in a research of interdisciplinary character developed with teenage girls, aged 10–14, inserted in two care institutions for protection measures in Pernambuco state, Brazil.

The objective of the work described in this chapter was to know the daily routine of a shelter for children aged 0 to 6 located in Espírito Santo and understand the factors involved in the psychosocial development of children in foster care.

The purpose of this study is to confirm whether the effectiveness of the program is sustainable 9 months after project completion for the children and adolescents participating in a childcare and rehabilitation support project.

This paper assesses experiences and challenges faced by the left-behind children (LBC) in Zimbabwe and explores these children’s perceptions of their interactions with teachers through inclusive education practices.

This paper attempts to recommend a suitable policy framework of aftercare services for Young Adult Orphans (YAOs) in India, with special reference to the state of Maharashtra.

This chapter aims to present and discuss the theoretical–methodological procedure of ecological engagement, used in a research with five adolescents in family reunification.

This study aimed to understand the impact of integrating a fee waiver for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) with Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) 1000 cash transfer programme - a program for extremely poor households with orphans and vulnerable children, elderly with no productive capacity and persons with severe disability - on health insurance enrolment.

The current study employed a cluster analysis to identify unique patterns of functioning among adolescent mothers leaving foster care aged 19.

This study explored the lived experiences of 23 kin caregivers raising children left behind in rural Northeast China while their migrant parents worked and lived in cities.

This article reports on the analysis of 11 qualitative interviews with parents who had attended child protection case conferences (CPCCs) in Scotland.

This exploratory data analysis of 937 children in 522 families in one London local authority sought to identify trends in the length, outcome and nature of pre-proceedings and proceedings cases, including outcomes six, twelve and twenty-four months after the end of these processes.

This literature review sought to explore the perspectives of practitioners and foster care providers on the topic of young people in and exiting out-of-home care (OoHC) who become parents at an early age.

This paper presents a juvenile delinquency prevention program for unaccompanied foreign minors in street situations in Ceuta, Spain. The main objective is to assess the implementation and results of this program.

This article summarises the policy and research literature on the mental health needs and experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in the UK, with the aim of suggesting how to enhance practice and improve outcomes for this vulnerable group.

The purpose of this study was to systematically review existing health service interventions for left-behind children in China.

This paper examines the data of empirical research on child-parent relationship in the Russian adoptive and birth families.

This research aims to shed light on the perceived intended and unintended consequences of the deinstitutionalization process in Cambodia.

This paper presents the results of the first pilot implementation in Spain of SafeCare, a home visiting evidence-based programme for the prevention and treatment of child neglect in families with children aged 0-5 years old.

This is a study on perceptions of child abuse and interventions in cases of abuse in the Family and Childhood Support Centres in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The aim of this report was to examine the recruitment, retention, training, assessment and support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people caring for children removed from their parents.

Adapting placement services to the needs of kinship care providers is the focus of this article.

This paper presents an evaluation of the pilot foster care project (FCPP) in Albania.

This paper discusses recent policy reforms have substantially changed state responses to child abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ).

This study provides a mapping of parenting support service provision in Ireland.

This report, produced by the Center for Educational Research and Consulting (CERC) and Save the Children, summarises the broader research study ‘Development Perspectives of Foster Care in Armenia’, which examined the foster care pilot programme introduced in Armenia in 2005.

From a social work perspective, this literature review aims at guiding the development of foster care in Vietnam by discussing current research about foster care from different countries.

This paper presents the conceptual framework for the Childonomics research project, which has developed the first iteration of a methodology that helps people to reflect on the long-term social and economic return of investing in children and families within a given national or sub-national context.

This study aims at comparing the nature and processes of contact between children in foster care and their birth families; the relationship between the existence and quality of contact and foster carers’ burden; and the relationship between the existence or not of contact and the existence of reunification plans.

In this study, focus groups comprised of child welfare workers and foster parents were conducted to capture the issues relevant to addressing the sexual reproductive health needs of youth in out-of-home care.

The purpose of this study was to explore early adulthood education and employment trajectories among young adults who experienced out-of-home care during childhood and to examine how various care history factors predict these trajectories.

This qualitative research asked case managers in the Western Australia's child protection system what contributed to timely reunification of children with their families, a recent policy goal.

The BIP Guidelines combine a conceptual framework of the best interests of the child with field-driven, operational guidance to provide one consolidated, practical frame of reference for staff and partners in the field. This document provides a guide to the 2018 updated Guidelines, including what's new, why they were revised, and what's next.

This self-review helps organizational and program leaders evaluate, learn, and report on their organization's overall health, open to any organization working with vulnerable children in international contexts.

This Participants' Manual is part of the Integrating Violence Against Children Prevention and Response into HIV Services Training Package. It provides background information, tools and learning aids for participants.