Youth in Foster Care and the Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standard

Amanda Stafford McRell, Christian E. Holmes, Akanksha Singh, Sue E. Levkoff, Benjamin Schooley, Neşet Hikmet, Kristen D. Seay - Child Maltreatment

For this study, researchers conducted semi-structured retrospective telephone interviews with foster parents across one southeastern U.S. state to identify local retrospective perspectives on Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standard (RPPS) implementation.

Sector‐wide analysis of early childhood development and education in emergencies in Colombia and considerations to strengthen systems globally

Liliana Angelica Ponguta, Carlos Andres Aragón, Lucero Ramirez Varela, Kathryn Moore, Sascha Hein, Adrian Cerezo - New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

The authors of this study applied a sector‐wide analysis protocol that harmonized components of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle by the Inter‐Agency Standing Committee and of a framework to characterize the governance of early childhood development and education (ECDE) systems.

Do implementation contexts for the Positive Parenting Program improve child and parental well-being?

Antonio R Garcia, Minseop Kim, Christina Myers, Xuan Trinh - Journal of Social Work

this study relied on organizational survey data collected from child welfare workers and supervisors during the process of implementing an evidence-based practice—the Positive Parenting Program—and merged those data with data gathered by the Parents' Assessment of Protective Factors survey.

Through Our Eyes: Giving due weight to the views of children and young people in policy making

Meaghan Vosz, Shelley Keevers, Dylan Williams, Ben, Bonnie and Nika - Centre for Children and Young People

This resource is structured into six ‘practices’ that the authors learned from policy actors who are working in development, consultation and evaluation of policy that directly impacts the lives of children and young people in care.

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Social workers understanding of extended families position in child welfare in Lithuania, Chile and Norway

Siv Oltedal, Ingunn Studsrød, Rasa Naujanienė, Carolina Muñoz Guzmán - Journal of Comparative Social Work

The study from Chile, Lithuania and Norway explores how social workers define family and more specific the position of extended families within child welfare and thus indicate contextual differences and similarities.