Services Received vs Services Needed by Families in Child Welfare Systems
This article compares and contrasts the services needed by families in child welfare systems with the services that families receive.
The group care quality standards assessment: A framework for assessment, quality improvement, and effectiveness
The aim of this article is to offer a working blue print to guide the adaptation of quality initiatives aimed at transforming residential care in other child welfare organizations or jurisdictions while taking into consideration the fit of such initiatives within the service environment and the complexities of system-wide change.
Measuring the restrictiveness of Portuguese residential care for children and youth
This article describes the process of revising a measure of out‐of‐home living restrictiveness to be culturally congruent for Portugal, providing preliminary data on validity and reliability, and discusses the feasibility of using this measure in Portugal.
Supporting care‐experienced adults' educational journeys: “Linked lives” over the life course
This paper explores how the principle of linked lives can illuminate our understanding of how relationships positively influence the educational journeys of adults with care experience over time.
Examining individual‐level academic risk and protective factors for foster youth: School engagement, behaviors, self‐esteem, and social skills
The goals of the present study were (a) to explore relationships amongst various child‐level correlates of school engagement and problem behaviors—namely, self‐esteem and social skills—and (b) to respectively investigate the protective potential of self‐esteem and social skills in the association between school engagement and behavior problems that threaten educational trajectories.
Reimagining child welfare outcomes: Learning from Family Group Conferencing
This open access article reports on a qualitative study, which sought to retrospectively understand the contribution family group conferencing (FGC) makes to longer‐term outcomes for children at risk of entering State care and their families.
Normas Mínimas para la Protección de la Infancia en la Acción Humanitaria
These standards set out a common agreement on what needs to be achieved in order for child protection in humanitarian settings to be of adequate quality.
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Beginning the “never-ending” learning process: Training experiences of newly-hired child welfare workers
This study used qualitative telephone interviews with participants sampled from a statewide cohort of newly-hired, frontline child welfare workers. The authors used thematic analysis to consider participants' training experiences and the conditions that facilitated meaning.
Child Protection With Muslim Communities: Considerations For Non-Muslim-Based Orthodoxies/Paradigms in Child Welfare and Social Work
The purpose of this article is to address at a broad level the issue of how overarching concepts of child protection and Islam influence social work practice with Muslim communities.