2019 UNGA Resolution on Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond

United Nations General Assembly Third Committee

The 2019 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution on Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond can be found on pages 48-51 of the Report of the Third Committee on Social Development. The Resolution highlights a number of concerns and recommendations regarding children's care

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2019 UNGA Resolution on the Girl Child

United Nations General Assembly Third Committee

The 2019 Resolution on the Girl Child can be found on pages 7-21 of the Third Committee Report on the Promotion and protection of the rights of children. The Resolution highlights several concerns and recommendations related to children's care.

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Key Recommendations for the 2019 UNGA Resolution on the Rights of the Child with a focus on children without parental care

Coalition on Children without Parental Care

A global coalition of organisations, networks, and agencies working at national, regional and international levels on children's care worked together to propose to Member States a set of Key Recommendations to be included in the 2019 UNGA Resolution on the Rights of the Child to address key challenges and opportunities in implementing the rights of children without parental care.

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Support LGBTI Youth

Elevate Children’s Funders Group and Global Philanthropy Project

Elevate Children’s Funders Group and Global Philanthropy Project have developed a collection of resources on supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender expansive and non-conforming, and intersex (LGBTI) youth.

Pulling Back the Curtain: What Do Non-Funders Think Are the Key Challenges, Needs, Gaps and Opportunities in Supporting Children and Young People Facing Adversity?

Elevate Children Funders Group (ECFG)

This report is an analysis of the feedback that the Elevate Children Funders Group (ECFG) received from a six-question survey with over 70 non-funder stakeholders.

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Effectiveness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in realization of the right to a remedy for Child victims of violence in Africa

Nevena Vuckovic Sahovic & Precious Eriamiatoe - Child Abuse & Neglect

The objective of this article is to provide evidence of the positive impact of the CRC on the right to a remedy for child victims of violence in selected African states, while highlighting existing gaps.

Finding The Way Home

HBO Films

The Finding the Way Home documentary highlights the painful realities of the eight million children living in orphanages and other institutions around the world, telling the stories of six children in Brazil, Bulgaria, Haiti, Nepal, India and Moldova who have found their way into the care of loving families after spending periods of their lives in an institution.

Case Management: Supervision and Coaching Lessons Learned Report

Severine Chevrel - The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

The Case Management Task Force (CMTF) of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action commissioned this project to gather and draft key lessons learned on the Case Management Supervision and Coaching initiative. Key questions that the Task Force wanted to address included feedback on the interagency country collaboration, the effectiveness of the localization approach, the successes and challenges of roll-outs in the eight participating countries, and the impact on case management teams’ supervision practices.

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Pathways of resilience for children facing socio-economic adversities: Experiences from Future Families’ OVC Programmes in South Africa

Pamhidzayi Berejena Mhongera & Antoinette Lombard - Children and Youth Services Review

This qualitative, phenomenological study explores experiences of resilience among OVC benefiting from programmes implemented by Future Families (a non-profit organisation) in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.

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Exploiting Administrative Data to Understand the Mental Health of Children Known to Social Services

Sarah McKenna, Aideen Maguire, Dermot O'Reilly - The International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS)

The aim of this study is to examine mental ill-health amongst children known to social services based on care exposure including those who remain at home, those placed in foster care, kinship care or institutional care and the general population not known to social services.

Dilemmas and Contradictions in Hearing Children in Care Proceedings: Conceptions of Children’s Views in an Indirect Participation Arrangement

Marie Hatlelid Føleide and Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik - The International Journal of Children's Rights

The article is based on interviews with 22 children’s spokespersons in the Norwegian arrangement for indirect participation in care proceedings, and presents analyses of the spokespersons’ experiences of contradictions and dilemmas in their practices.

Exploring the families of origin of LGBTQ former foster youth and their trajectories throughout care

Sarah Mountza & Moshoula Capous-Desyllas - Children and Youth Services Review

Theoretically informed by intersectionality, queer, and feminist theories, the purpose of this community based qualitative research study was to gain a nuanced understanding of the experiences of 25 diverse LGBTQ former foster youth before, during, and after being in foster care.

Finalizing the Deinstitutionalisation Process of the Child Protection System in Romania: Financial Impact Study

Radu Comşa, Oana Ganea, Ştefan Dărăbuş - Hope and Homes for Children

This study analyzes longitudinal statistics from 18 years of Hope and Homes for Children programs in Romania to demonstrate the cost savings and ability to support a higher number of children at risk if the state were to invest money into programs that allow children to remain in a family environment, rather than be placed in institutional care.

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“Be supportive and understanding of the stress that youth are going through:” Foster Care Alumni Recommendations for Youth, Caregivers and Caseworkers on Placement Transitions

Ruth M.Chambers, et al - Children and Youth Services Review

This qualitative research study examined foster care alumni’s advice for youth in care, caregivers, and child welfare caseworkers on how to best handle placements moves.

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Social services Interventions and the Mental Health and Mortality of care leavers: a population based data linkage study in Northern Ireland and Finland

Aideen Maguire, et al - The International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS)

The aim of this study is to utilise nationwide social services data from two countries (Northern Ireland (NI) and Finland), with similar populations but different intervention policies, linked to a range of demographic and health datasets to examine the mental health outcomes of young adults in the years following leaving care.

The looked-after child in time: Creating and analysing longitudinal data on placement history and educational outcomes

Gillian Raab & Cecilia MacIntyre - The International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS)

Cross-sectional analysis by the Scottish Government show that the educational outcomes for looked after children are much poorer than for other children in Scotland. This presentation will discuss methods to create a longitudinal data set from these data and thus infer how a child’s lifetime history of care relates to their educational outcomes.

Protecting migrants under the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter

Yannis Ktistakis

This handbook, produced by the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, is a practical tool for legal professionals from Council of Europe member states who wish to strengthen their skills in applying the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in their daily work.

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Victimization and Adversity in Child Welfare Involved Youth: The Cumulative Influence on Child and Caregiver Reported Behavioral Health Symptoms

Brianna M. Lombardi, Sarah E. Bledsoe, Candace Killian-Farrell, Paul Lanier, Asheley Skinner - Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Exposure to childhood victimization and adversity (CVA) is pervasive for child welfare (CW) involved youth. However, most research with CW samples has focused on types of maltreatment and fails to recognize the additive influence of exposure to CVA beyond maltreatment. For this study, a subsample aged 8 to 17 (n = 1,887) was drawn from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) II.

Costs for physical and mental health hospitalizations in the first 13 years of life among children engaged with Child Protection Services

Amanda L. Neil, et al - Child Abuse & Neglect

The purpose of this study was to estimate the costs of hospitalization for physical and mental health conditions by child protection status, including out-of-home-care (OOHC) placement, from birth until 13-years, and to assess the excess costs associated with child protection contact over this period.

Exclusion within the Exclusion: Immigrant and Refugee Women and Girls

Xanthippi Foulidi, Evangelos C. Papakitsos, Terpsichori Gioka - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

This particular paper has been focused on the multiple discriminations suffered by women and girls (including unaccompanied minor girls) and on the problems that they face in the field of refuging and immigration, as recorded to a large extent through informal interviewing of public agencies staff that are involved in this issue.

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Increasing child protection workforce retention through promoting a relational-reflective framework for resilience

Erica Russ, Bob Lonne, Deborah Lynch - Child Abuse & Neglect

This Australian longitudinal, qualitative study explored child protection worker perceptions and experiences of resilience to inform understandings of worker resilience, and implications for worker functioning and workforce retention.

Communication Between Left-Behind Children and Their Migrant Parents in China: A Study of Imagined Interactions, Relational Maintenance Behaviors, Family Support, and Relationship Quality

Sheng, Yingyan - Kent State University

This dissertation examines the communication between left-behind children in China and their migrant parents from the three-level perspective of relational maintenance (Dainton, 2003): the self, the system, and the network contexts.

System Involvement among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness

Sarah C. Narendorf, et al - Children and Youth Services Review

This study used a dataset of 1426 young adults experiencing homelessness (YAEH) from 7 different US cities to examine the historical risk and resilience characteristics of those involved in foster care alone, juvenile justice alone, both systems (dual status), and no system involvement.

Challenges and their Overcoming when Implementing the Restructuring of Children’s Care Homes in Lithuania

Vida Gudzinskiene and Rita Raudeliunaite - Int. Conf. SOCIETY. HEALTH. WELFARE

The aim of the study is to reveal challenges and the ways to overcome them in the context of the restructuring of childcare, based on the experience of social workers who work in children’s care homes in Lithuania, which participate in the restructuring.

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“Ask Me What I Want”: Community-Based Participatory Research to Explore Transition-Age Foster Youth’s Use of Support Services

Saralyn C. Ruff & Kristi Harrison - Children and Youth Services Review

A number of psychological factors have been found to be relevant in terms of problematic use of digital devices. Some of them may serve as risk factors, while others mean protection. The main goal of present study was to determine user profiles and to examine differences among them based on several psychological variables using cluster analysis.

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Unaccompanied Migrant Minors Detention Before the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Veljko Turanjanin - Yearbook - Human Rights Protection: Protection of the Rights of the Child “30 Years After the Adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child” Number 2

In this article, the author deals with one of the most problematic issues of the migrant crisis, namely the deprivation of liberty of a unaccompanied migrant minor in his or her migrant journey.

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Trust and the Triggers of Trauma. Exploring experiences of the trust between Eritrean unaccompanied minors and their caregivers in The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Mirjam van Reisen, Taha Al-Qasim, Carlotta Zanzottera, Rick Schoenmaeckers - Tilburg University, EEPA, Nidos

This report focuses on trust relations of Eritrean minors who arrived without the company of their parents to The Netherlands and the people who are taking care of them.

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Early family adversity, stability and consistency of institutional care and infant cognitive, language and motor development across the first six months of institutionalization

Joana Baptista, Jay Belsky, Sofia Marques, Joana R. Silva, Carla Martins, Isabel Soares - Infant Behavior and Development

This study extends research on the effects of institutionalization—by examining the trajectories of cognitive, language and motor development of 64 Portuguese infants and toddlers across the first six months of institutionalization, while determining whether pre-institutional adversities and the stability and consistency of institutional care predict children’s development.

Different profiles, different needs: An exploration and analysis of characteristics of children in kinship care and their parents

Amilie Dorval, Josianne Lamothe, Sonia Hélie, Marie-Andrée Poirier - Children and Youth Services Review

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

Who’s in the Child’s Corner: Bringing Family, Community, and Child Protective Services Together for the Protection of Children

Cynthia Cupit Swenson & Cindy M. Schaeffer - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice

This article draws from the authors’ experiences of implementing ecologically-based treatment models based on multisystemic therapy, including the Neighborhood Solutions Project (NS) and Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN). The authors call for a rigorous multisystemic approach to the protection of children, one that pays attention to children at risk of harm and those who are involved in formal child protection systems because they have experienced maltreatment.

Reflections on the Traditional Role of Social Workers in Child Protection: Lessons Learned from the Strong Communities Initiative in Israel

Carmit Katz, Jill McLeigh, Asher Ben Arieh - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice

This essay provides an overview of an alternative to the traditional model of social work that was developed in the context of an initiative seeking to address the community-level factors shown to influence children’s safety. The model described in this essay was part of an effort to replicate Strong Communities for Children (Strong Communities)—which was first piloted in the USA to keep children safe by building systems of support for parents with young children —in south Tel Aviv, Israel.

Drug use and criminality among unaccompanied refugee minors: a review of the literature

Anna-Karin Ivert, Mia-Maria Magnusson - International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care

The purpose of this paper is to study an examination of existing international research concerning unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) and of whether, and if so how, issues relating to drug use and criminality among these children are discussed in the international literature.