The role of risk in child welfare decision-making: A prospective cohort examination of families transferred to ongoing child protection services after an investigation

Bryn King, Tara Black, Barbara Fallon, Yu Lung - Children and Youth Services Review

This study uses longitudinal administrative data to assess the decision to transfer a family to ongoing child welfare services within twelve months of an initial investigation.

A collective impact approach to supporting youth transitioning out of government care

Annie Smith, Maya Peled, Stephanie Martin - Child Abuse & Neglect

In Vancouver, Western Canada, 60 agencies and 20 youth from government care are working in partnership using a collective impact approach to address the systemic issues and barriers to healthy development that youth from care experience. This mixed-method evaluation included quantitative and qualitative data, collected through outcomes, diaries, surveys, and focus groups, to measure process and outcomes.

Experiences of Becoming Emotionally Dysregulated. A Qualitative Study of Staff in Youth Residential Care

Heine Steinkopf, Dag Nordanger, Brynjulf Stige & Anne Marita Milde - Child & Youth Services

Trauma informed care (TIC) emphasizes the importance of professionals maintaining an emotionally regulated state. For this article, the authors interviewed eight staff members in a residential care unit for children and adolescents where TIC had been implemented, about situations wherein they experienced difficulty regulating their own emotions.

The quality and developmental pathways in sibling relationships: A qualitative study of Norwegian children admitted to child welfare service care

Wenche Hovland, Sarah Hean - Child & Family Social Work

This paper explores young people's perceptions of changes in the quality of sibling relationships and the pathways relationships follow during the transition from the biological family into care.

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Reconstructing Children’s Rights Conversation #3: Confronting Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in Funding

CPC Learning Network

This session’s speakers discussed the funding ecosystem’s challenges and barriers and highlighted examples of how innovative funding mechanisms are reinventing donor giving by shifting resources and power closer to the children, young people, families, and communities they are meant to support.

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Reconstructing Children’s Rights Conversation #2: Confronting Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in Child Welfare and Child Rights Programming

CPC Learning Network

The goal of the Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute is to raise awareness and recognition of how racism, patriarchy, and power permeate the international child rights and child protection field. Building on Conversation #1, this session expands our political imagination by delving deeper into the international children’s rights and child protection space.

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Reconstructing Children’s Rights Conversation #1: Confronting Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in International Relations, Development and the Humanitarian Aid Industries

Ghazal Keshavarzian and Mark Canavera - CPC Learning Network

The goal of the Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute is to raise awareness and recognition of how racism, patriarchy, and power permeate the international child rights and child protection field. This first conversation examines the larger ecosystems of international development, humanitarian aid, international relations, and peace and security, and unpacks the colonial vestiges and power imbalances intrinsic to these larger contexts.

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The best intentions: an examination of current practices in short-term international service trips intended to benefit vulnerable children and youth

Amanda R. Hiles Howard, Megan Roberts, Jacqueline N. Gustafson & Nicole Gilbertson Wilke - Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

The goal of the present study was to provide data on pre-trip preparation, in-country activities, and how these impacted volunteer perceptions of preparation and trip satisfaction for volunteers working with vulnerable children, including those in residential care (ex. orphanages).

Socio-economic supports available for the education of adolescent girls in child-headed families in the Kingdom of Eswatini: Policy Implication for Educational Evaluators

S’lungile K.Thwala, Christian S. Ugwuanyi, Chinedu I.O. Okeke, Ngwenya Ncamsile - International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation

The study sought the socio-economic supports available for the high school adolescent girl learners from child-headed families (CHFs).

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