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Lisa Merkel‐Holguin, Allan Cooke, Denise Evans, Kelly L. Beck - Family Court Review,

This article provides a historical context and describes numerous provisions of the family group conference that protect participants and the proceedings. It then describes applications of FGC‐like approaches in the United States where practice models and policies—not laws—guide the implementation of such approaches.

Leah P. Cheatham, Karen A. Randolph, Laura Boltz - Children and Youth Services Review,

The current study provides a more nuanced account of foster youth with disabilities’ transitions into adulthood.

Antigonos Sochos & Najla Al‐Jasas - International Journal of Social Welfare,

This qualitative study explored the accounts of 50 residential childcare staff in Saudi Arabia, aiming to identify ways in which staff and residential institutions may function as attachment objects for the children in their care.

Belinda Hannah, Louise Condon - Journal of Health Visiting,

This article identifies the steps that can be taken to support women at risk of recurrently losing children to care.

Sarah J. Beal, Katie Nause, Nathan Lutz, Mary V. Greiner - Journal of Adolescent Health,

This study examined the impact of health care education materials designed for foster youth, called ICare2CHECK. It was hypothesized that ICare2CHECK would increase nonurgent ambulatory health care use and decrease emergency/urgent care use.

Lijun Chen, Di Qi & Dali L. Yang - Child Indicators Research,

This study zeroes in on the issue of left-behind children and draws on data from the China Family Panel Studies surveys to examine the impacts of parental absence on child development in psychological, physical and cognitive domains.

Ian Sinclair, Nikki Luke, John Fletcher, Aoife O'Higgins, Steve Strand, David Berridge, Judy Sebba, Sally Thomas - Child & Family Social Work,

This study aimed to explain the development of the educational gap between children in “out‐of‐home care” (CLA), children deemed in social need (CIN), and other pupils.

Victoria Sydorenko, Alla Kovalchuk - The Asian International Journal of Life Sciences,

The study substantiates the organizational, psychological, pedagogical and socio-legal principles of creating a safe educational environment for children deprived of parental care, providing the proper conditions for their socialization, harmonious physical, mental, moral and volitional, and spiritual development.

Whitney L. Rostad, Katie A. Ports, Shichao Tang, Joanne Klevens - Child Maltreatment,

This study used variations in the adoption and refund status of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a socioeconomic policy intended to reduce poverty, to examine their effect on foster care entry rates in the U.S.

Beate Oerbeck, Kristin Romvig Overgaard, Vidar Hjellvik, Jørgen G. Bramness, Berit Hjelde Hansen, and Lars Lien - Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology,

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of sleep medication and concomitant psychotropic medication in children and adolescents placed under residential care (RC) in Norway.