Article: The Orphan Industrial Complex: The Charitable Commodification of Children and Its Consequences for Child Protection

Kristen Cheney & Stephen Ucembe - Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention

This chapter explicates the concept of the orphan industrial complex to argue that persistent narratives of “orphan rescue” not only commodify orphans and orphanhood itself but—counter to their stated goal—can actually spur the “production” of “orphans,” resulting in child exploitation and trafficking.

“If you can't be with this client for some years, don't do it”: Exploring the emotional and relational effects of turnover on youth in the child welfare system

Ashley Curry - Children and Youth Services Review

This study explores the lived experience of child welfare worker turnover from the child's perspective, adding an important and underrepresented voice in the literature.

Child Welfare Caseworkers and Children with Developmental Disabilities: An Exploratory Study

Trupti Rao, Elizabeth Reiman, Ashley Ausikaitis - Social Work

In this exploratory study, through use of an online anonymous survey, local county child welfare caseworkers were asked to self-rate their knowledge of, exposure to, and comfort levels with children with developmental disabilities.

To preserve or not to preserve: That is the question. Decision-making about family preservation among families in multi-problem situations

Anne-Fleur W. K. Vischer, Erik J. Knorth, Hans,Grietens, Wendy J. Post - Children and Youth Services Review

In order to gain insight into the role that decision-making plays in family preservation practice, the authors of this article studied decision-making within a family preservation (FP)-intervention program provided by the Expertise Center.