Podcast: Reunification

Child Welfare Information Gateway


This episode focuses on the current reality of reunification across the public child welfare system. Listeners will hear a conversation among child welfare professionals, members of the American Bar Association (ABA) Center on Children and the Law(opens in new window), the Children’s Bureau, and an alumnus of foster care.

Contact with Biological Parents Following Placement in Foster Care: Associations with preschool child externalizing behavior

Karine Poitras, George M. Tarabulsy, Natalia Varela Pulido - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

The purpose of this study is to determine the association of face-to-face contact with biological parents and externalized behaviors, while taking into account placement instability and foster parent interactive sensitivity.

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Contact with Biological Parents Following Placement in Foster Care: Associations with preschool child externalizing behavior

Karine Poitras, George M. Tarabulsy, Natalia Varela Pulido - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

The purpose of this study is to determine the association of face-to-face contact with biological parents and externalized behaviors, while taking into account placement instability and foster parent interactive sensitivity.

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Kinship Care 3: The strength of the extended family / A força da família extensa

Family for Every Child

This is the 3rd and final presentation in the Kinship Care in Brazil mini-series. Here, Claudia Cabral of Associação Brasileira Terra dos Homens describes the importance of considering the extended family when making decisions about children’s care, and efforts to advocate to the Brazilian government.

“Who has my back?”: Social convoys and loneliness in Slovenian adolescents living in residential youth care group homes

Nika Kristan, Mateja Marovič,Tina Kavčič - Child and Family Social Work

Adolescents living in residential youth care (RYC) are at risk for disadvantaged social relationships, which in turn present a risk factor for increased loneliness. Social relationships of Slovenian adolescents aged 15–18 years and living in RYC group homes or in their primary families were investigated by relying on the social convoy framework.

Gender and Migration Data: A guide for evidence-based, gender-responsive migration governance

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

This guidance note aims to address the migration data gaps in a manner relevant to all stakeholders, and promotes a whole-of-society approach. It is also meant to help operationalize IOM’s Migration Data Strategy and includes recommendations on enhancing gender indicators and gender-based methods in data production, protection, dissemination and use. The note provides succinct information on the extent to which gender is captured through macrolevel global data sets, along with a discussion of key issues relevant to gender and migration data.

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Uncertain Pathways: How gender shapes the experiences of children on the move

UN Women

Age plays a critical role in a child’s migration, but how will gender mediate that experience? Which gender-specific vulnerabilities, needs, and opportunities influence the lives of girls and boys on the move? This report reviews the existing evidence base – official statistics and quantitative and qualitative studies from the community level to the global level – to shed light on these important questions.

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