In this video, Dr. Kristen Cheney discusses how her work led her to study the growth of the Orphan Industrial Complex and its adverse effects on children, families, communities, and child protection systems.
This small pilot study to explores what is currently taught to future doctors about children in out-of-home care (OOHC) and found that there is no formal teaching about these children in the University of Melbourne Doctor of Medicine course.
This paper aims to: summarise what we know from Australian research about the issues relating to reunification; assess the quality of the evidence base; and identify future research needs.
This study examines the effects of youth empowerment programs (YEPs) on the psychological empowerment of young people aging out of foster care.
This study provides an analysis of the ‘investigative turn’ in England by comparing two large cohorts of children, one whose fifth birthday was in 2011–12 and the other in 2016–17.
This study sought to assess the combined effects of physical neglect, a major embodiment of the left-behind phenomenon, and the trauma of being left behind on subsequent behavioral problems of children in rural China.
This article examines how Cambodians view the causes and effects of child abuse and analyses its underlying cultural forces.
The present study describes how two youth care organizations in the Netherlands implemented group climate monitoring instruments for children as part of the broader ‘You Matter!’ project, and aims to answer the question how these monitoring instruments can help to improve group climate when routinely embedded in daily care.
This study explores how foster care experiences can impact support network functionality as young people exit the foster care system.
