2024 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
2024 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.
Promoting Kafaalah as an Alternative Family Care System within the Muslim Community
This brief provides an overview of Kafaalah, an alternative family care option rooted in Islamic tradition, where a sponsor (Kafiil) cares for a child (Makfuul) without severing the child's ties to their birth family. It explains how Kafaalah differs from adoption by emphasizing that the child retains their birth family name and inheritance rights.
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Children Around the World: The Future of Our Earth (International Psychology)
This book looks at major macro trends affecting children as well as interventions that have been used to address problems that children face. Topics that are addressed include the UN Convention on Children, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that support children, and development issues like pre and post-natal health, family systems, gender roles, and puberty/adolescent issues. Attention is given to major risk factors and challenges such as sex trafficking, child labor, street children, protecting children in congregate care, and violence against children in the home, in institutions, and in the community.
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Foster Care Leads to Lower Irritability Among Adolescents with a History of Early Psychosocial Deprivation
The current study examined irritability in 107 16-year-olds with a history of institutional care from a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care and 49 community comparison children.
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Encounters with Care in a Scottish Residential School in the 1980s
In this article, the author adopts a broadly autoethnographic approach to reflect on how boys (now men in their late 40s and early 50s) brought up in the 1980s in a Scottish residential school recall being cared for.
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Development of a Child-Informed Measure of Subjective Well-Being for Research on Residential Care Institutions and Their Alternatives in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This study describes a participatory, child-informed process of developing a multidimensional measure of child subjective well-being tailored towards the priorities of children who have lived in residential care. The survey was administered to 180 young people in Kenya and Guatemala who were reunified with family after living in residential care or at risk of entering residential care.
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Inclusion of Children in the Context of Migration into National Child Protection Systems
This Technical Note lays out ways in which national child protection systems can be enhanced to include children in the context of migration.
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Residential Youth Workers’ Perceptions of Grief and Loss in Residential Care
This project uses a mixed methods design to explore how residential youth workers in British Columbia conceptualize and account for grief and loss. Specifically, the authors explore service providers’ perceptions of how loss affects children’s behavior.
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Lack of Parental Care Increases Depression of Rural Left-Behind Children in China: A Moderated Mediating Effects*
This study uncovers the internal mechanisms through which parental care deficit impacts depression in left-behind children in China.
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Identifying the Service and Social Policy Needs, Gaps, Barriers and Enablers for Grandparent Carers
The goal of this research was to map and identify service and social policy needs, gaps, barriers, and enablers for Western Australian custodial grandparent carers.
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