Integration and Reintegration of Children on the Move
This How We Care series examines how three of Family for Every Child's Members are promoting the effective integration and reintegration of children on the move through their programming.
Four Principles to Make Advanced Data Analytics Work for Children and Families
This brief looks at the rapid rise of advanced analytics and explores the controversies, ethical challenges and opportunities that it creates for youth- and family-serving agencies. It also presents four principles for identifying effective and equitable advanced analytics tools.
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Qualitative process evaluation of the Fostering Changes program for foster carers as part of the Confidence in Care randomized controlled trial
The purpose of this study was to conduct a qualitative process evaluation drawing on stakeholder perspectives to describe the logic model of Fostering Changes, identify potential mechanisms of impact of the program and enhance understanding of the trial results.
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Characterizing newborn and older infant entries into care in England between 2006 and 2014
The purpose of this study was to characterize infant entries to care in England.
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Incidence and neighborhood-level determinants of child welfare involvement
This study evaluates the association between children placed in out-of-home care and neighborhood-level factors using eight years of administrative data.
Cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) to support parental contact for children in out-of-home care
The aim of this cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to test the effectiveness of a contact intervention for parents having supervised contact with children in long-term OOHC.
Restraint, seclusion and time-out among children and youth in group homes and residential treatment centers: a latent profile analysis
The purpose of this study was to enhance understanding of restrictive interventions in residential units as a means of improving professional practices involving children and youth in out-of-home care.
Assisting decisions in child protection service institutions with the RIC – The Risk Indication in Child sexual abuse
The RIC (Risk Indication in Child sexual abuse) and its screening version (RIC:SV) are actuarial risk assessment instruments, developed at the Austrian Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders and designed for child protection services to assess the likelihood of sexual recidivism in male contact child sexual abusers who still or again live within a family including children.
Youth’s rights and mental health: The role of supportive relations in care
This study builds upon and enhances existing knowledge by exploring the moderating role of social support from educators in residential care and the association between perceived rights and psychological difficulties.
Child Maltreatment in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Proposed Global Framework on Research, Policy and Practice
The current paper aims to suggest a framework for risk and protective factors that need to be considered in child protection in its various domains of research, policy, and practice during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.