This qualitative study explored how volunteers delivering social welfare to orphans and vulnerable children through a community initiative supported by donors made sense of volunteering during a period of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe.
Employing focus groups and participant-observation, this exploratory study examined areas of personal development, knowledge, and skills of young women who were formally in residential care in the Philippines to determine success factors for young women with traumatic histories.
This paper examines the two basic models of the state authorities’ intervention into family life aimed at protecting children.
This paper discusses the style and efficacy of child preservation services for the purpose of reducing child abuse and neglect.
This Supervision Guideline document from Save the Children contains guidelines and underlying principles for Pusan Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (PDAK) child and family support centre social workers in working with children and families.
Jose Luis Rodriguez III reviews the book Whose Child Am I: Unaccompanied Undocumented Children in US Immigration Custody by Susan J. Terrio.
The Zambia National Consultation Accelerating Children’s Care Reform Report is a summary report of a stakeholders’ meeting held between key stakeholders in children’s care in May, 2016.
This article discusses the challenges in research and practice that have grown out of the evolution of volunteer tourism.
This paper analyses how social support enhances family resilience in kinship foster families by involving the families in an educational group programme.
Key findings on the state of the United Kingdom’s foster care system by The Fostering Network note that although most foster carers say they want to continue caring for children, only 55% say that they would recommend it to others.
