(Re)Displaying Family: Relational Agency of Care-experienced Young People Embarking on Parenthood

Caroline Cresswell - Families in Motion: Ebbing and Flowing through Space and Time

This chapter from 'Families in Motion: Ebbing and Flowing through Space and Time' explores an overlooked theme across the literature: capturing the experience of childhood family disruption and transitional flux between foster family homes and the independent sensemaking into the present of young care-experienced parents.

Variables Related to Victimization and Perpetration of Dating Violence in Adolescents in Residential Care Settings

María Dosil, Joana Jaureguizar, and Elena Bermaras - The Spanish Journal of Psychology

This study had three goals: (1) To analyze the prevalence of dating violence in adolescents under residential care settings according to sex and age; (2) to explore the relationships between victimization and perpetration in adolescents’ dating violence, sexist attitudes and clinical variables; and (3) to identify variables associated to adolescents’ dating violence (victimization and perpetration).

The Reunification of American Indian Children in Long-Term Foster Care

Ashley L. Landers, Jennifer L. Bellamy, Sharon M. Danes, Alan McLuckie, Sandy White Hawk - Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

The literature examining reunification for American Indian children reveals mixed findings regarding racial differences. Studies that isolate the impact of race on reunification while controlling for other covariates are needed, and this study fills that gap.

Trust Conference 2018: Keynote Address - Kate Van Doore

Thomson Reuters Foundation

In this video, Kate van Doore, International Child Rights Lawyer of Griffith University Law School, discusses her experience with opening up an orphanage in Nepal, and another in Uganda, and then discovering that the children in these homes had living parents and families and that the orphanages had been made into money-making enterprises. 

The documented layer of children's rights in care order decision‐making

Susanna Hoikkala & Tarja Pösö - Child & Family Social Work

This article departs from the view that when children are perceived as bearers of rights, this should also be reflected in the institutional documents of decision‐making. That is why the documented layer of decisions about taking a child into care is examined here.

Beyond Orphanage Visits: Resources for Travel and Volunteering Organisations on Responsible Alternatives to Orphanage Tourism and Volunteering

Responsible Tourism Partnership & Martin Punaks

It is now widely accepted that visiting or volunteering in orphanages is harmful to children. The purpose of this resource is to bring together in one place some the best resources about this issue in order to assist travel and volunteering organisations.

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Household Vulnerability Assessment Tool (HVAT)

AVSI & FHI 360

The Household Vulnerability Assessment tool (HVAT) is for assessment of families selected through the vulnerability prioritization process. This adapted tool helps to obtain in-depth baseline information about a family’s level of vulnerability to family-child separation, which will be used for monitoring progression of FARE beneficiary families’ vulnerability to family-child separation.

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