American Indian & Alaska Native Grandfamilies: Helping Children Thrive Through Connection to Family and Cultural Identity

Generations United

This toolkit is designed to give resources and tips to child welfare agencies, other government agencies and nonprofit organizations, so they can better serve all American Indian and Alaska Native grandfamilies regardless of child welfare involvement.

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Community Conditions that Strengthen Families: Protective Factors Work at the Community Level

The Center for the Study of Social Policy

This report summarizes survey findings from organizational partners and members of the Strengthening Families National Network interested in using the Protective Factors Framework in their community-level approach and their viewpoints on community conditions that support child and family outcomes.

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Care Leavers' Perspectives on the Family in the Transition from Out-of-Home Care to Independent Living

Stephan Sting and Maria Groinig - International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies

The first section of this paper describes the various links between care leavers and their families based on a literature review. In the second section, the biographical relevance of the family is highlighted based on the example of a qualitative interview study about the educational pathways of 20- to 27-year-old care leavers.

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Child Protection, Disability and Obstetric Violence: Three Case Studies from Iceland

James Gordon Rice, Helga Baldvins Bjargardóttir, and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

This contribution is a collective re-analysis of three research projects in Iceland focused on parenting with a disability which draws upon data spanning a twenty-year period. The core purpose of these projects is to understand why parents with primarily intellectual disabilities encounter such difficulties with the child protection system.

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International approaches to child protection: What can Australia learn?

Rhys Price-Robertson, Leah Bromfield and Alister Lamont - Australian Institute of Family Studies, Commonwealth of Australia

This paper offers a broad overview of some of the main approaches to child protection used internationally. Using examples from Canada, Sweden, Belgium and the Gaza Strip, it offers policy-makers the chance to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, as well as how these examples might be used to inspire improvements within the Australian context.

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