The Journey of Life Before, During and After Foster Care and the Path to Resilience

Sara B. Wood - National Youth-At-Risk Conference 2020 Archive

This presentation will begin in the form of a story—a story of a real, in the human flesh person who came into the foster care system as a victim of abuse and neglect and left as a college graduate and continued her success as a social worker, child advocate, Statewide Youth Advisory Board Coordinator, and educator.

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Taking Care Triple P for Foster Parents With Young Children in Foster Care: Results of a 1-Year Randomized Trial

Ann-Katrin Job, Daniela Ehrenberg, Peter Hilpert, Vanessa Reindl, Arnold Lohaus, Kerstin Konrad, Nina Heinrichs - Journal of Interpersonal Violence

The authors of this study conducted a randomized controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of a parent group training tailored to the special needs of foster families.

Improving Therapy Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: Using Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Engage Caregivers

Brooke Wymer, Therese L. Newton, Sierra Swisher - National Youth At-Risk Conference Archive

This presentation will offer practical approaches to navigating systems in order to provide a consistent continuum of care for children involved in the foster care system.

Technical Note on the Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

The Alliance on Child Protection in Humanitarian Action has produced this Technical Note on the Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic, based on the Guidance Note on Protection of Children during Infectious Disease Outbreaks (Alliance, 2018), in an attempt to support frontline Child Protection workers, policy makers and donors in designing and implementing Child Protection interventions, including cross-sectoral collaboration.

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Lumos’ response to the European Commission’s Evaluation of the support to promoting social inclusion, combatting poverty and any discrimination by the European Social Fund

Lumos

This brief from Lumos reviews the the transition from institutional to family and community-based care under the European Social Fund (ESF) funding period 2014-2018, including promising deinstitutionalisation practices, and outlines key recommendations to the European Union for the completion and implementation of the ESF+ 2021- 2027 funding period.

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