The Experience of Power Relationships for Young People in Care. Developing an Ethical, Shortitudinal and Cross-National Approach to Researching Everyday Life

Hélène Join-Lambert, Janet Boddy & Rachel Thomson - Forum: Qualitative Social Research

In this article the authors look for a suitable method which takes account of power relations while investigating young people's perspectives on their everyday lives.

Strategic partners: Enhancing the ability of foster care agencies to serve the special needs of young mothers

Lisa D. Lieberman, Alejandra Kaplan, Laura Scholey, Jeremy Kohomban, Linda Lausell-Bryant - Children and Youth Services Review

A qualitative program evaluation was conducted, including focus groups with 36 parenting young women who had participated in Passport to Parenting (P2P) initiative services and interviews with 11 key staff of the three partnering agencies.

Attachment provision in the Saudi orphanages: Exploring the narratives of residential staff

Antigonos Sochos & Najla Al‐Jasas - International Journal of Social Welfare

This qualitative study explored the accounts of 50 residential childcare staff in Saudi Arabia, aiming to identify ways in which staff and residential institutions may function as attachment objects for the children in their care.

Impacts of transformational leadership on turnover intention of child welfare workers

Taekyung Park & Barbara Pierce - Children and Youth Services Review

This study aimed to examine how organizational factors, particularly leadership, affect child welfare worker turnover intentions in order to help child welfare agencies establish a practice model that prevents the turnover of qualified workers.

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Identifying Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and psychiatric comorbidity for children and youth in care: A community approach to diagnosis and treatment

Mitesh Patel, Sabrina Agnihotri, Connor Hawkins, Leo Levin, Deborah Goodman, Alexander Simpson - Children and Youth Services Review

This article describes an integrated three-phase approach to the identification of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and psychiatric comorbidity for children and youth in care, consisting of: (1) completion of a standardized neurobehavioral screening tool by a child protection worker (CPW); (2) assessment by a pediatrician, including facial measurements and; (3) integration of findings in a psychiatric assessment.

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Does open enrollment policy improve academic performance among students involved with child protective service? Findings from Minnesota-linking information for kids

Saahoon Hong, Won Seok Choi, Kristine N. Piescher, Yanchen Zhang, Taeho Greg Rhee - Children and Youth Services Review

In this study, comparative analysis and linear mixed modeling with propensity score matching were used to identify the extent to which students involved with child protection service (CPS) utilized an inter-district open enrollment option and to examine their academic achievement before and after switching schools.

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Housing instability and child welfare: Examining the delivery of innovative services in the context of a randomized controlled trial

Cyleste C. Collins, Rong Bai, Robert Fischer, David Crampton, Nina Lalich, Chun Liu, Tsui Chan - Children and Youth Services Review

This study employed a mixed-methods approach to examine process findings from a randomized control trial from the first county-level Pay for Success initiative, Partnering for Family Success.

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Key variations in organizational culture and leadership influence: A comparison between three children’s mental health and child welfare agencies

Rosemary Vito - Children and Youth Services Review

The purpose of this article is to present qualitative research results from a multiple case study on variations in organizational culture and leadership influence between three children’s mental health and child welfare agencies in Ontario, Canada.

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