The Orphan Myth: Keeping Families Together
This special documentary episode of PBS’s “To the Contrary” explores the trend away from orphanages and towards family reunification.
This special documentary episode of PBS’s “To the Contrary” explores the trend away from orphanages and towards family reunification.
This document highlights examples of good practices in parenting and family strengthening interventions based on evaluations of programs and initiatives throughout Africa.
This toolkit is designed to increase knowledge of the rights and duties provided in the ACRWC and ACERWC, educate government officials on the obligations of State Parties and inform civil society actors on the contents of the Charter as well as the mechanisms for engaging with the ACERWC.
This Implementation Handbook offers explanation and analysis of the articles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The aim of the handbook is to be a tool for implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and to provide additional insight and interpretation.
This study explores the association of caregiver and child characteristics with educational outcomes for orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) in India.
This study was conducted to understand the lived experiences of street children and adolescents.
This study tests the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Family Needs Scale using sample of 303 informal kinship families recruited through local child welfare and social services in New York, USA.
This study used cross-sectional data from 1848 South African children aged 9–13 to address three questions: whether CBOs are reaching those who are most vulnerable, whether attending these organizations is associated with greater psychosocial wellbeing, and how they might work.
The objective of this study was to develop and test an instrument to measure self-representation of youths in residential care in Portugal.
The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences and outcomes of children in the foster care system in the United States who were removed from their homes at least partially in relation to their parent's or caretaker's disability.