Transforming Children's Care Webinar #2 - Guidance on Public Expenditure

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform

This webinar is the second in a series for the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. In the webinar, Philip Goldman from Maestral International presented new guidance on Public Expenditure and Children’s Care produced by Changing the Way We Care, which is designed to strengthen the capacity of government agencies in low resource settings to prepare a sound budgetary framework.

Webinar Recording - Child protection and philanthropy: join the conversation

UBS Optimus Foundation

The conversation of this webinar focused on the root causes of why there are millions of children globally growing outside of families, and discussed some of the proven ways of strengthening families and communities to provide a safe and nurturing environment for the world’s most at risk and vulnerable children.

Transformation of Social Services in Ukraine: the Deinstitutionalization and Reform of the Institutional Care System for Children

Liudmyla Kryvachuk - Labor et Educatio

This article focuses on the study of current transformation processes occurring in Ukraine in the provision of social services to various groups of children, in particular orphan children and children deprived of parental care.

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Nutritional Status of Under-five Children living in Orphanages compared with their Counterparts living with their Families in Host Communities in Lagos State

Izuka MO, Olatona FA, Adeniyi OF, Onajole AT - Journal of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care

This study was conducted to determine and compare the nutritional status of children living in orphanages and children living in the host communities in Nigeria.

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Restorative Parenting: Delivering Trauma-Informed Residential Care for Children in Care

S. L. Parry, T. Williams & C. Burbidge - Child & Youth Care Forum

Using a novel multisystemic trauma-informed model of care with an embedded developmental monitoring index, the Restorative Parenting Recovery Programme, pilot data was collected from young people and care staff from four residential homes over a two-year period.

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Foster Care, Permanency, and Risk of Prison Entry

Sarah Font, Lawrence M. Berger, Jessie Slepicka, Maria Cancan - Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

The purpose of this study was to examine associations of foster care exit type (e.g., reunification with birth family, adoption, guardianship/permanent relative placement, or emancipation from care) with risk of entry into state prison in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and to examine racial disparities in those associations.

Empowering Culturally Diverse Populations Affected by Violence: Realizing the Promise of Family Strengthening Interventions

Jordan Farrar and Theresa S. Betancourt - Handbook of Political Violence and Children: Psychosocial Effects, Intervention, and Prevention Policy

This chapter reports on one such intervention, the Family Strengthening Intervention (FSI), initially developed and tested in Rwanda to improve communication and parenting in HIV/AIDS-affected families with school-age children.

Psychological Capital Development in Street Children through Education at Child Protection & Welfare Bureau, Lahore

Nauman A. Abdullah, Amtul Javaid, Sonia Omar - Journal of Elementary Education

The present research study was aimed at exploring the Psychological Capital Development in Street Children through Education at Child Protection and Welfare Bureau, Lahore.