7 Measures Public Authorities Must Take to Protect Homeless People from Covid-19
FEANTSA calls for public authorities at local, regional, national and European level to take these seven measures to protect homeless people and public health.
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COVID-19 and street connected children’s rights. Issue 1: Public Spaces and Orders to Self-Isolate or Quarantine at Home
This resource from the Consortium for Street Children aims to answer the questions of those who work with street-connected children in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
Advice for parents and families with a child in the care system: Ways you can support your child during the Coronavirus outbreak
This guide aims to help parents and families of children who are looked after in the care system during the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Family Separation Under the Trump Administration: Applying an International Criminal Law Framework
This Comment will propose a theoretical international criminal law response to the family separation that occurred in summer 2018.
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A Guide to Community Strategies for Improving Emerging Adults’ Safety and Well-Being
This guide summarizes findings from relevant literature on what helps emerging adults (including youth transitioning from foster care) succeed, describes examples of how US communities are innovating to meet those needs, and shares key takeaways from interviews with emerging adults.
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The outcome of non-residential youth care compared to residential youth care: A multilevel meta-analysis
This multilevel meta-analysis compared the outcomes of Treatment Foster Care Oregon for Adolescents (TFCO-A) and home-based treatment programs (HBT) with residential youth care for children and youth aged 0 to 23 years.
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“If I’m Here, It’s Because I Do Not Have Anyone”: Social Support for the Biological Family during the Foster Care Process
The aims of this article were to identify the types and characteristics of social support for families in vulnerable situations and to analyze what elements influence families’ attitudes towards these supports.
Social Inclusion Processes for unaccompanied minors in the city of Palermo: Fostering Autonomy through a New Social Inclusion Model
This chapter describes and proposes a new social inclusion model for supporting unaccompanied minors in becoming autonomous, as they are one of the most vulnerable groups of contemporary migration flows.
The ethnic identity complexity of transculturally placed foster youth in the Netherlands
This study addresses the ethnic identity of transculturally placed adolescent foster youth with ethnic minority backgrounds in The Netherlands. The authors conducted qualitative interviews to provide insight into the lifeworlds of twenty foster youth. They found that constructing an ethnic identity was complex for these ethnic minority foster youth.
Leveraging Social Media to Rapidly Recruit a Sample of Young Adults Aging Out of Foster Care: Methods and Recommendations
This brief report describes social media-based advertising strategies employed to recruit an anonymous sample of young adults who had recently aged out of foster care to participate in an online survey.