Examining Developmental Adversity and Connectedness in Child Welfare-Involved Children

Erin P. Hambrick, Thomas W. Brawner and Bruce D. Perry - Children Australia

In this article, the authors explore whether current relational health (connectedness) promotes positive outcomes for child welfare-involved youth while controlling for developmental risk (history of adverse, and lack of relationally positive, experiences).

Further analysis of the British Chinese Adoption Study (BCAS): Adult life events and experiences after international adoption

Margaret Grant & Alan Rushton - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper seeks to contribute to debates about how people's adult lives unfold after experiencing childhood adversity. It presents analysis from the British Chinese Adoption Study: a mixed methods follow-up study of women, now aged in their 40s and early 50s, who spent their infant lives in Hong Kong orphanages and were then adopted by families in the UK in the 1960s.

MEASURING SEPARATION IN EMERGENCIES: Concise Pilot Report Democratic Republic of Congo July-August 2014 - Population-Based Estimation Method

Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian and Craig Spencer (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University), Anna Skeels (Save the Children)

This document provides a brief summary of the field testing of the population-based estimation method (or ‘estimation method’) in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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MEASURING SEPARATION IN EMERGENCIES: Concise Pilot Report Democratic Republic of Congo

Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian and Craig Spencer (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University), Anna Skeels (Save the Children)

This pilot summary document provides a brief summary of the field testing of the community-based surveillance method in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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Orphanage Voluntourism In Nepal: What You Should Know

UNICEF Nepal

This short flyer from UNICEF Nepal answers the questions: What is orphanage voluntourism? Are the children in orphanages actually orphans? How can orphanage volunteering be harmful? Why is there greater risk following the 2015 earthquake? What are the risks to children of residing in orphanages? What is the solution for children that are genuine orphans? And how can you help children in Nepal?

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