Transition vers le placement familial pour les enfants : Manuel d'Orientation

Beth Bradford, Kerry Olson, Sarah Gesiriech, and Daphne Fowler - Faith to Action Initiative

Le présent Manuel d’orientation fournit des informations et des outils utiles pour les églises, les organisations confessionnelles, les donateurs et autres acteurs qui font passer la garde des enfants du placement en institution au placement en famille.

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Urgent: Recommendations for the Reunification of Separated Children with their Families

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, in response to the current situation of family separation at the U.S. border with Mexico, has issued a series of recommendations (endorsed by Better Care Network and others) calling for urgent action to rapidly reunify separated children with their families and end detention, in accordance with their best interests.

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The enormous cost of toxic stress: Repairing damage to refugee and separated children

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, cientific Advisory Group, Early Childhood of the Bezos Family Foundation

This statement, submitted on behalf of the Scientific Advisory Group, Early Childhood of the Bezos Family Foundation, has been released in light of the policy of family separation of immigrant families at the U.S. border with Mexico and outlines the harmful impacts of the toxic stress of family separation on children's brain development and physical wellbeing.

Shaping Cash Transfer Impacts Through ‘Soft-Conditions’: Evidence from Lesotho

Noemi Pace, Silvio Daidone, Benjamin Davis, Luca Pellerano - Journal of African Economies

This paper focuses on the role of ‘soft conditionality’ implemented through both ‘labelling’ and ‘messaging’ in evaluating the impact of the Child Grants Program in Lesotho, an unconditional cash transfer programme targeting poor households with orphans and vulnerable children.

‘I Stand on My Own Two Feet but Need Someone Who Really Cares’: Social Networks and Social Capital among Unaccompanied Minors for Becoming Established in Swedish Society

Malin Eriksson, Malin E Wimelius, Mehdi Ghazinour - Journal of Refugee Studies

The aim of this qualitative grounded-theory situational study was to explore experiences of social networks among unaccompanied minors (UM) and the significance of those networks for becoming established in Sweden, based on data from in-depth interviews with 11 young persons.

Reasons for placement decisions in a case of suspected child abuse: the role of reasoning, work experience and attitudes in decision-making

Cora Bartelink, Erik J. Knorth, Mónica López López, Carien Koopmans, Ingrid J. Ten Berge, Cilia L.M. Witteman, Tom A. Van Yperen - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study focuses on workers’ rationales in placement decisions in child abuse cases in the Netherlands.

Community perceptions of home environments that lead children & youth to the street in semi-rural Kenya

Sarah Seidel, James Muciimi, James Chang, Stanley Gitari, Philip Keiser, Michael L. Goodman - Child Abuse & Neglect

For this study, forty men and women from five semi-rural villages in Meru County, Kenya participated in a Rapid Rural Appraisal to explore main and underlying reasons why children may be, or may feel, unwelcome in the home and thus migrate to the street.