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This blog post from Child Trends presents findings from an evaluation of three models of trauma-informed care (TIC) in the US child welfare system. These models "train staff, resource parents, and other adults in children’s lives to recognize and respond effectively to traumatic stress reactions, to integrate screening and assessment into care, and to refer children who have been exposed to trauma to evidence-based and evidence-informed treatments," says Child Trends. The blog post presents information on each of the three models (Trauma Systems Therapy, Trauma Systems Therapy-…
AIDS has devastated the social and economic fabric of African societies and made orphans of a whole generation of children. Although donor agencies initially viewed the plight of orphans as a short term humanitarian disaster, they now acknowledge the long term social consequences of African children growing up without parental love and guidance. The potential for these children to form a large group of dysfunctional adults, which could further destabilise societies already weakened by AIDS, has increased the urgency of finding an effective solution to the orphan crisis.
Lesya Belenok describes her role as a social worker with Hope and Homes for Children in Makariv, a district in the Kyiv region of Ukraine.
Of 648 unpaid carers surveyed in Scotland, 22 percent said they had not taken one day away from caring in five years.
This BBC News film describes the impactful efforts of the Prison Doula Project, a Minnesota-based organization offering parenting programs for incarcerated women and their children.
In this article from Aljazeera, Jean-Pierre shares the story of how he was tricked into fighting as a child soldier in Burundi. He and hundreds of children who fought as child soldiers are now attempting to reintegrate back into their families and communities. UNICEF has set up a program to help them adjust. This program provides the children with clothing and school scholarships. They are also assigned social workers who regularly visit the children to make sure they are integrating back into society without facing abuse or social exclusion.