Dimensions of maltreatment and academic outcomes for youth in foster care
The current study examined if the methods used to define and describe maltreatment contribute to the association between maltreatment and academic functioning in youth.
Parental sense of competence among non-kin foster carers from Spain
The main purpose of this paper is to explore non-kin foster carers' sense of parental competence and analyze its determinants and predictors in non-kin foster families.
Moderating Role of the Form of Maltreatment Experienced by Children on the Effectiveness of a Parent Training Program
The study examines whether the form of maltreatment experienced by the child moderates the effects of a parent training program (PTP) on the probability that the child’s case will be closed.
Institutional Violence against Children: How to Cope with the Inevitable and the Unconquerable
This paper, produced for the Know Violence global learning initiative, looks at the violence children experience in closed institutions in the Central Asian countries, specifically the former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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Mortality Among Mothers Whose Children Were Taken Into Care by Child Protection Services: A Discordant Sibling Analysis
This study examines whether mothers who had a child taken into care by child protection services have higher mortality rates compared with rates seen in their biological sisters who did not have a child taken into care.
Evidence based interventions to improve fostering relationships
The recommended interventions in this book is the result of a systematic review of literature conducted through a combination of hand and electronic database searches to select, appraise, extract, synthesis and analyse primary articles to find interventions that work.
Children's mental health and its predictors in kinship and non-kinship foster care: A systematic review
The purpose of this systematic review is to compare the associations of kinship care and non-kinship care with children's mental health and to examine the factors associated with children's mental health in kinship care and non-kinship foster care.
Struggles, successes, and setbacks: Youth aging out of child welfare in a subsidized housing program
Struggles, successes, and setbacks: Youth aging out of child welfare in a subsidized housing program
This study used ethnographic data to examine a program providing subsidized apartments to youth aging out.
The impact of a statewide trauma-informed child welfare initiative on children’s permanency and maltreatment outcomes
This article presents findings of a state-wide trauma informed child-welfare initiative with the goal of improving well-being, permanency and maltreatment outcomes for traumatized children.
The Changing Brain: Created to Heal - Hope for Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers
This resource from the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) has been created for those who care for and about orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), with the aim of helping them empower and equip children and youth toward success and well-being.
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