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Adolescent males comprise a significant number of youth in out-of-home care, yet our understanding of their past adverse experiences and current functioning remains relatively limited. The current study relied on data from the Assessment and Action Record—second Canadian version for a representative sample of 508 12- to 17-year-olds in out-of-home care across the province of Ontario (Canada). Findings indicated high rates of maltreatment (especially emotional abuse) as the primary reason for child welfare entry, with an elevated occurrence of multiple exposure to different types…
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Concerns about the quality of residential care for children and youth are longstanding. These concerns prompted a Florida-based initiative aimed at transforming residential care through the integration of research-informed practice standards, on-going assessment, and continuous quality improvement. The initiative resulted in the development of the Group Care Quality Standards and the Group Care Quality Standards Assessment (GCQSA) as mechanisms for guiding transformation efforts. In this article, we elaborate on the conceptual and implementation frameworks guiding the development…
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Perspectivas sobre la transformación de la atención y protección desde un orfanato de Colombia: Fundamor, una organización que ofrece servicios a niños y niñas afectados por el VIH, cerró su internado y, con el apoyo de Lumos, reubicó a los niños y niñas internos en nuevas modalidades de atención familiar.
A pesar de los progresos recientes, Colombia aún enfrenta conflictos y pobreza. Los servicios y el apoyo que se ofrecen en muchas comunidades no satisfacen las necesidades de sus habitantes, y más de 11 000 niños y niñas viven en acogimiento…
Fundamor, a renowned NGO that specialised in providing services for HIV-positive children, decided to try to close its institution and move children to family-based care. The institution had been established at a time when state support for HIV-positive people was in its infancy. Insufficient access to adequate health care, coupled with poverty, led parents of HIV-positive children to bring them to the Fundamor institution. Over time, the leadership of Fundamor noticed that whilst children received good health care, nutrition and education, they were not developing as they would in a family…
This brief from the Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition in the United States provides an overview of the 30 Days to Family® program, an intense, short-term intervention developed by the Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition to: 1) increase the number of children placed with relatives/kin at the time they enter the foster care system; and 2) ensure natural and community supports are in place to promote stability for the child. The program model features two major elements: family finding and family support interventions.
A rigorous, independent study was commissioned to test the…
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In Argentina there are more than 9000 children without parental care due to prior abuse or neglect, assisted in foster child care facilities. The quality of care provided there impacts on the well-being of children and on multiple aspects of their adult life. Prevention in health in this setting has its own characteristics. Lack of policies that guarantee good practices, not only concerns to the exercise of the right to health established by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but also conditions the exercise of other rights. Care requires knowledge, skills and attitudes…
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Disability Rights International (DRI) llevó a cabo dos investigaciones en Baja California, México –la primera en noviembre de 2018 y la segunda en febrero de 2019. La Comisión Estatal de los Derechos Humanos de Baja California (CEDH) acompañó a DRI en visitas a cuatro instituciones privadas en las que se encuentran niñas, niños, adolescentes y personas –incluidas personas migrantes– con discapacidad. En estas instituciones DRI documentó casos de tortura y abusos tales como el uso de sujeciones prolongadas y cuartos de aislamiento. DRI encontró particularmente preocupante la…
Introduction
Disability Rights International (DRI) carried out two investigation trips to Baja California, Mexico, in November 2018 and February 2019. DRI was accompanied by the Human Rights Commission of the Mexican State of Baja California (CEDH) and visited four residential, private institutions for children and adults – including migrants - with disabilities. In these institutions DRI found grave instances of torture and abuse, including use of prolonged restraints and isolation rooms. Particularly worrying was the high death rate of children with disabilities at an institution near…
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Rationale: Children held in immigration detention may be at risk for mental health disorders due to the impacts of pre-migration factors, including exposure to violence, their displacement from their home countries, their journey between countries, and the conditions of their detention. Limited research has demonstrated high rates of clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and anxiety disorders among detained immigrant children.
Objective: In this cross-sectional study…
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Background
A significant proportion of children placed in out of-home care experience placement disruptions in the United States. Placement instability has deleterious effects on children’s well-being.
Objectives
(a) To measure the time-to-initial placement change in different types of settings, including non-relative foster homes, kinship care, residential treatment centers (RTC),…