Racism as trauma: Experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian child protection practitioners

Fiona Oates - Child Abuse & Neglect

A strategy gaining traction to address the disproportionate representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the statutory child protection system is to recruit more Indigenous practitioners into statutory child protection work. This paper reports on results from a recent doctoral study which explored the experiences of Indigenous child protection practitioners based in Queensland, Australia.

Cross-Over Youth and Youth Criminal Justice Act Evidence Law: Discourse Analysis and Reasons for Law Reform

Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich - Manitoba Law Journal

Adolescents who are involved with child welfare systems, either in foster care or under child welfare supervision, across Canada, disproportionately “cross-over” to youth criminal justice proceedings. This article critically considers disadvantages “cross-over” youths face under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA).

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Migratory trauma in unaccompanied minors in Africa. Analysis of vulnerability and adaptation factors

Dorottya Szikra, Rahmeth Radjack, Kossigan Kokou-Kpolou, Thierry Baubet, Marie Rose Moro - L'information psychiatrique

This study explores conceptions of the notion of unaccompanied minors (UM) in Senegal and analyzes the resources and coping mechanisms of these minors when confronted with migratory traumas.

The impact of parental labour migration on left‐behind children's educational and psychosocial outcomes: Evidence from Romania

Alina Botezat & Friedhelm Pfeiffer - Population, Space and Place

This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on the education, physical, and mental health of left‐behind children aged 11 to 15 years in Romania, a country where increasingly more children have parents working abroad.

The factors associated with being left-behind children in China: Multilevel analysis with nationally representative data

Lian Tong, Qiong Yan, Ichiro Kawachi - PLoS One

Using nationally representative monitoring data for migrant workers aged 15 to 59 years in China, this study sought to estimate the prevalence of left-behind children (LBC) in each province, and to examine risk factors being left behind at both the individual and provincial level.

Increasing child protection workforce retention through promoting a relational-reflective framework for resilience

Erica Russ, Bob Lonne, Deborah Lynch - Child Abuse & Neglect

This Australian longitudinal, qualitative study explored child protection worker perceptions and experiences of resilience to inform understandings of worker resilience, and implications for worker functioning and workforce retention.

Rendering the First-Year Experience: Experiences of Successful Foster Alumni College Students

Kearney, Kerri Shultz; Will, Lisa; Satterfield, James W. - Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences foster alumni college students (i.e., students who, as adolescents, were in foster care or other out-of-home conditions) considered pertinent during their first year in college.

Developing trauma informed practice in Northern Ireland: The child welfare system

Bunting, L., Montgomery, L., Mooney, S., MacDonald, M., Coulter, S., Hayes, D., Forbes, T. - y Queen’s University, School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work

This paper provides an overview of the principles of Trauma informed care, describing how service user experiences of adversity and/or trauma relate to the child welfare system in Northern Ireland and outlining international and national policy and practice developments in creating more Trauma informed child welfare systems.

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Out-of-home placement decisions: How individual characteristics of professionals are reflected in deciding about child protection cases

Whitney D. de Haan, et al - Developmental Child Welfare

The current study examines the relation between several individual characteristics of professionals in the Netherlands and their decisions about out-of-home placement in a multivariate model.

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