Lumos

Lumos works to support children in institutions worldwide to regain their right to a family life and to end the institutionalisation of children. 

Country Care Review: Ethiopia

Better Care Network

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the sixteenth session (15 Aug 2016 – 2 Sep 2016) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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Systematic reviews on child welfare services: identifying and disseminating the evidence

Hege Kornør, Hanna Bergman, Nicola Maayan, Karla Soares-Weiser, and Arild Bjørndal - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

To facilitate well-informed decisions, the researchers collected and disseminated evidence from systematic reviews (SR) to local child welfare stakeholders in Norway through plain language summaries. This article describes that process.

The Vital Few foster parents: Replication and extension

John G. Orme, Donna J. Cherry - Children and Youth Services Review

This study replicated and extended previous research which identified the small proportion of highly productive foster parents who provide a disproportionate amount of care in the United States. This study used a nationally representative sample of foster families (N = 876) with a focus on willingness to foster, and actually fostering, children with special needs.

Promoting Education for Vulnerable Children by Supporting Families: A Holistic Intervention in Uganda

Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski & Inbal Alon - Journal of Social Service Research

This article reports on the Western Uganda Bantwana Program, which worked with more than 1,000 HIV/AIDS-affected families with the goals of improving socioeconomic status, psychosocial functioning, and educational participation.

Social images of residential care: How children, youth and residential care institutions are portrayed?

Maria Manuela Calheiros, Margarida Vaz Garrido, Diniz Lopes, Joana Nunes Patrício - Children and Youth Services Review

The current study seeks to examine the social images associated with children and youth in residential care and the respective care institutions in Portugal.