Leaving Alternative Care and Reintegration

It is important to support children who are preparing to leave care.  This includes helping young people as they ‘age out’ of the care system and transition to independent living, as well as children planning to return home and reintegrate with their families.  In either case, leaving care should be a gradual and supervised process that involves careful preparation and follow-up support to children and families.

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Dave S. Pasalich, Benjamin Aquilina, Alison Hassall, Natalie Goulter, Nakiya Xyrakis, Anderson Khoo,

This paper provides the first conceptual model for, and systematic scoping review of, callousness/unemotionality in children and young people with experiences of alternative care across the globe.

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC),

To ensure a significant improvement in service delivery to children and their families, and specifically to the successful reintegration of children from residential care into families and communities, a case management approach, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and tools were required to support state and non-state service providers to standardize the way they promoted family care. This short insight document describes how the case management package was developed and rolled out.

UNICEF ESARO Regional Learning Platform,

During this UNICEF ESARO webinar presenters share findings from research on care leavers in Kenya, and explore the peer-to-peer methods used in this research. The Government of Kenya also explains why this research was conducted and how it will be used.

Olga Ulybina,

This paper advances the global and transnational agency approach to the study of out-of-home childcare, specifically the institutionalization of children.

Minna Kaasinen, Anja Terkamo-Moisio, Pirkko Salokekkila, Arja Haggman-Laitila,

The aim of this qualitative study published in the Children and Youth Services Review journal was to describe care leavers’ experiences of social inclusion in Finland. The results can provide new insight into a vulnerable, marginally researched group with high support needs and a propensity for social exclusion.

Carolin Ehlke, Wolfgang Schröer,

This conceptual article describes how, in terms of organization theories, shifts in the chronological transition to adulthood produce “weak” constellations of participation during the process of leaving care. The authors highlight the different degrees of participation by those leaving care and the ways in which it is expressed.

Eurochild, UNICEF,

In this policy brief published by Eurochild and UNICEF, researchers assess the 20 available European Child Guarantee National Action Plans (NAPs) and issue recommendations to examine their coverage of children in alternative care.

Patrícia da Silva Bezerra, Yuri Leandro do Carmo de Souza, Matheus dos Santos da Silveira, Edmylla Francyelle dos Santos Silva, Simone Souza da Costa Silva,

This study aimed to describe the perception of caregivers and the role of professionals in the process of family reintegration and adoption of children and adolescents with disabilities in a host institution in Belém/PA, Brazil.

Transforming Children's Care Collaborative,

Drawing from the learning from participatory research in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Australia, this webinar introduced different approaches used to engage individuals with lived experience of alternative care in research efforts.

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC),

This CTWWC brief describes the family strengthening approach and the people who work with families and children. It shares reflections from facilitators of parenting sessions and the caregivers, themselves.