This study from the journal of Emerging Adulthood shares positive stories of care leavers and explores the factors that promote the successful transition to emerging adulthood for care leavers in Ghana.
The present study analyzes the opinions of birth families, foster families and social workers responsible for supervising contact visits regarding the benefits and problems associated with contact visits.
In the present study, the authors examined the effects of two types of initial short-term placements: emergency placements (lasting 1 to 5 days) and provisional placements (lasting 6 to 60 days) on the risks of re-entry into care in the four years following reunification.
This review assesses the literature that describes the risk and protective factors for children in out-of-home care (OOHC) experiencing educational disadvantage.
This study was conducted to identify the quality of life among children deprived of family care in residential institutions in El-Beheira governorate.
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In the current study, the authors examined whether children with Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement who were in foster care had more advanced receptive vocabulary than children with CPS involvement who resided with their birth parents.
This study aimed to understand the experience of adoptive parents who have completed dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) therapy.
This film from Lumos is about the people who know that there is an alternative to institutional care, and who are working hard to make it happen.
Positive Powerful Parents (PPP), an Australian self advocacy group run by and for parents with an intellectual disability, are currently running the Hand In Hand project which seeks to educate government and the community about the needs of families where a parent has an intellectual disability. This report describes the activities of the Hand In Hand Parent Meeting in Melbourne on the 19th of September 2018.
