“Barriers to” and “Recommendations for” Providing Care and Support for Children Living as AIDS Orphans in Township Communities in the Eastern Cape South Africa; A Cluster Analysis

Sharron Frood & Edward Purssell - International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences

This study used empirical data from health and social care professionals and cluster analysis to identify “barriers to” and “recommendations for” providing care and support to children living as AIDS orphans in township communities in Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa.

Family Reunification

Kathleen Stevenson - Nursing Management of Pediatric Disaster

Reunification of families after a large disaster can be a major concern if strategies to mitigate the issues have not been incorporated into local, regional, state, tribal, and federal planning for such an event.

Key Messages and Guidance to Prevent and Respond to COVID-19

Changing the Way We Care

This document features key messages including critical information about keeping children safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The messages are designed for use by country child protection actors, such as public child protection officers, directors of residential care facilities and government and civil society actors that work with vulnerable children and families.

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The longitudinal associations among perceived discrimination, social initiative, and depressive symptoms in Chinese rural left-behind adolescents

Jingxin Zhao, Qian Wang, Xiangjuan Xue - Journal of Adolescence

The current study used a longitudinal design to explore how perceived discrimination is associated with psychosocial functioning (i.e., depressive symptoms and social initiative) over time in Chinese rural left-behind adolescents.

Effects of the ‘Circle of Security’ Group Parenting Program (COS-P) With Foster Carers: An Observational Study

Govind Krishnamoorthy, Paula Hessing, Christel Middeldorp, William Bor - Children and Youth Services Review

This article presents a multi-site evaluation of a group delivery of the eight-week Circle of Security-Parent DVD program (COS-P) program to foster carers of 6-12 year-old children in an urban community as facilitated by community-based providers from a specialist child and youth mental health services.