Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Children
This book explains the neurological, emotional, and behavioral impacts of violence and trauma experienced by newborns, infants, children, and teenagers.
Unaccompanied immigrant children: Interdisciplinary perspectives on needs and responses: Special Issue of Children & Youth Services Review
This special issue of the Children & Youth Services Review, Volume 92, focuses on unaccompanied immigrant children throughout the world.
Household Economic Strengthening Interventions in Programs to Reintegrate Children in Family Care and Prevent Family-Child Separation: A Brief Report on Responses to an Online Survey
In November 2015, ASPIRES launched an online survey of practitioners to identify potential sources of learning and to assess needs for improving the use of economic strengthening (ES) interventions in reintegration and prevention of separation programming. This brief report summarizes the findings of this survey.
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DOVCU Learning Brief 2: The effect of DOVCU’s integrated package of services on reintegrating children and families
This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from the second of the “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project’s stated objectives: examining the extent to which DOVCU project interventions decrease vulnerabilities for reintegrating children and their families.
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DOVCU Learning Brief 1: The effect of DOVCU’s integrated package of interventions on children and families at risk of separation
This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from the first of the project’s stated objectives: examining the extent to which “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project interventions decrease vulnerabilities for households and children at risk of separation.
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DOVCU Learning Brief 3: Examining the effects of DOVCU through a gender lens
This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from both households at risk of separation and reintegrating households to understand how the “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project in Uganda” (DOVCU) package of integrated social and economic interventions affects children and households differently depending on the sex of the child, caregiver, and/or household head.
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Endline Evaluation Report of Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project in Uganda
The objective of this evaluation is to assess the performance of the “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project in Uganda” (DOVCU) with regards to the creation of sustainable changes in the lives of two beneficiary groups, namely 43,000 vulnerable children living in targeted households and 2,000 children at risk as a result of an integrated package of support.
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ChildFund Deinstitutionalization of Vulnerable Children in Uganda (DOVCU) Final Report
This final report on the “Deinstitutionalization of Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project identifies its successes as well as some shortcomings and key learning that is directly relevant to other projects working to support family care for children.
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An analysis of Ofsted inspection reports for children's social care services in England
This paper presents findings from an independent study of Ofsted inspections into children's social care in England, covering reports under three inspection frameworks during the period 2009 to 2016.
Qualitative exploration of supporting figures in the lives of emerging adults who left care compared with their noncare‐leaving peers
In this study, 32 young adults aged 18 to 25 participated in semi‐structured interviews regarding their current support figures in order to learn whether they were congruent with their needs after emancipation.