Systematic literature review of foster and adoptive caregiver factors for increasing placement stability and permanency

Lori A. Vanderwill, Amy M. Salazar, Garrett Jenkins, Jessica De Larwelle, Amanda K. McMahon, Angelique Day, and Kevin Haggerty - Journal of Public Child Welfare

This study is a systematic review of the scholarly literature to better understand caregiver-related factors (e.g., characteristics, proficiencies) that contribute to permanency and placement stability, in order to provide a stronger foundation for developing and improving caregiver recruitment and training procedures.

Protected! Podcast Ep 2: Featuring Elissa Alhassrouny on Remote Adolescents Programming

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Elissa Alhassrouny, a child protection specialist with Plan International Lebanon, discusses how their team moved to remote child protection programming and the steps involved in that process.

Webinar Recording: Tackling COVID-19's Hidden Crisis: Violence Against Children

End Violence Partnership and the Office of the Special Representative to the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children (SRSG VAC)

This webinar brought together partners from over 130 countries around the world. At the event, participants were given a chance to hear about and discuss local, national and global perspectives of and responses to the COVID-19 crisis.

Peer Relations and Delinquency Among Girls in Foster Care Following a Skill-Building Preventive Intervention

Alana Hu, Mark J. Van Ryzin, Maria L. Schweer-Collins, Leslie D. Leve - Child Maltreatment

The authors of this study analyzed data from a randomized clinical trial of the middle school version of the Keep Safe intervention - an intervention that targets delinquent peer affiliation - in a sample of girls in foster care. The researchers found that the middle school Keep Safe intervention shows promise as a preventative intervention for reducing affiliation with delinquent peers, which importantly is associated with adolescent delinquent behavior.