Attachment in family foster care: Literature review of associated characteristics
This review provides an overview of the associated characteristics with the quality of attachment between foster carers and foster children.
Farsi Translation: Technical Note on the Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Alternative Care
The aim of this Technical Note is to support child protection practitioners and government officials in their immediate response to the child protection concerns faced by children who are at risk of separation or in alternative care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Social Service Workforce Safety and Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Response - Recommended Actions
This document is intended to provide guidance on how to support the social service workforce and empower them to safely serve children, families, and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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‘There are a Lot of Good Things that Come Out of it at the End’: Voices of Resilience in Youth Formerly in Foster Care During Emerging Adulthood
This study uses interviews with 20 youth formerly in foster care who exhibit better-than-average outcomes to explore contextual aspects of resilience during emerging adulthood, elucidating how both relational and organizational support contribute to their resiliency.
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Kenya’s Over-Reliance on Institutionalization as a Child Care and Child Protection Model: A Root-Cause Approach
This paper teases out the range of factors reinforcing Kenya’s over-reliance on live-in institutions as a child care and child protection model.
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Webinar Recording: Protection of Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Alternative Care
The aim of this webinar was to elaborate on the Technical Note in support of child protection practitioners and government officials in their immediate response to the child protection concerns faced by children who are at risk of separation or in alternative care during COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 & Immigration Detention: What Can Governments and Other Stakeholders Do?
The present document aims to provide practical guidance to States and other stakeholders in preventing and responding to COVID-19 in the context of immigration detention, including the detention of unaccompanied and separated children, highlighting instances of promising practices as useful models to draw from.
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A child for every family? Characterizations of “adoptable” foster children in online permanency advocacy publications
Framed by relational dialectics theory, a contrapuntal analysis of 104 photolistings examined the discursive tensions of what it means to be an “adoptable” child.
Mental Health Management Among Older Youth in Foster Care: Service Utilization and Preparedness
The aim of the study was to document mental health service use (counseling and medication) among youth in foster care, examine how prepared they feel to manage their mental health, and investigate predictors of service use and preparedness.