Fostering the family, not just the child: Exploring the value of a residential family preservation programme from the perspectives of service users and staff

C.M.Rapsey & Cassandra J. Rolston - Children and Youth Services Review

The aim of this study was to examine factors and processes of change that occurred through participation in a residential family preservation/reunification programme from the perspectives of service users and staff.

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Putting Children at the Forefront: Save the Children's recommendations for a child-centred EU agenda on migration

Save the Children Italia Onlus

Based on experience from work on the ground, this report from Save the Children identifies a number of key issues that urgently need to be addressed by the EU and its Member States to ensure better management of mixed migration flows for children and their families, including separated and unaccompanied children.

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Early adversity and children's regulatory deficits: Does postadoption parenting facilitate recovery in postinstitutionalized children?

Kalsea J. Koss, Jamie M. Lawler and Megan R. Gunnar - Development and Psychopathology

This study examined whether and how postadoption parenting promotes recovery in children experiencing early life adversity in the form of institutional care. Results support the notion that postadoption parenting during toddlerhood and the early preschool years promotes better regulation skills following early adversity.

Using the Deaf Community as an Alternative Treatment Strategy: Developing Deaf Treatment Foster Homes

Stephen H. Hamerdinger & Daniel Murphy - JADARA

This article gives specific information on a program in Missouri, USA that took the emerging therapeutic foster family approach and added a novel component: training deaf families to become therapeutic foster parents, including how it was established, what problems arose, and what solutions were tried.

A Systematic Review of the Mental Health of Orphans and Vulnerable Children within the Context of HIV/AIDS in Africa

Paul Narh Doku, Kofi Mensah Akohene, Mark Kwame Ananga and Timothy Pritchard Debrah - International Journal of Psychiatry

This systematic review provides a synthesis of empirical findings related to mental Health of Orphans and Vulnerable Children within the context of HIV/AIDS in developing countries.

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Helping Parents Navigate the Child Welfare System: Partnering with CASA to Create Self-Advocacy Resource Kits

Amanda Warnock - Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

The goal of this paper is to describe a pilot effort to provide empirically sound self-advocacy resource kits to parents in the child welfare system in one Indiana county in the United States, in partnership with the organization that aims to advocate for the best interests of children at the center of these cases—Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA).

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Peer influences moderated by group home size: Retrospective cohort of youths in Ontario group home care, 2012 to 2016

Gershon K. Osei, Kevin M. Gorey - Children and Youth Services Review

This study tested the hypothesis that group home size moderates peer influence-conduct problem relationships such that large homes with many residents are relatively risky places, while smaller homes with fewer residents are relatively protected places.

Narratives of women’s retrospective experiences of teen pregnancy, motherhood, and school engagement while placed in foster care

Serena K. Ohene & Antonio Garcia - Children and Youth Services Review

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the extent to which the core tenets of attachment, identity, self-efficacy, and critical race theories collectively explain or validate experiences of school engagement and academic outcomes among pregnant and parenting teens in the child welfare system.

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