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Millions of children sleep on the streets every night, separated from family and reliable shelter. Research over the past decades has established risk factors and health outcomes of street-involved children and youth (SICY), which in turn have led to the development of multiple frameworks to guide policy and programming for working with SICY. However, research is also needed to define and evaluate effective interventions to help children caught in homelessness and separated from families. Through a review of implemented programs to reunite SICY with their families as well as…
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This paper is based on literature review on the legal, political and social context of Malaysia regarding child welfare and social work. Children are an asset and younger generations will become the leaders of the country in future. In the Malaysian context, a variety of factors impact on how children are defined. These include the Islamic perspective, local cultural practices, approaches based on biological growth and relevant legislation. Such varying definitions can cause confusion in the application of law and could result in injustice. When talking regarding the social…
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The adolescent females who take the responsibility of being foster-parents while young need emotional support and care. Owing to multiple factors such as the death of parents, adjustment in parents’ roles, inadequate social support and exposure to sexual and emotional abuse, majority of this group tend to face a bleak future. By employing the systematic review as the research methodology, the researchers explored previous research from doctoral dissertations, internet journals and explored the published research articles. This research paper is aimed at providing…
Retrak has released a literature review on independent living programmes in an effort to understand the needs of young people coming of age on the streets. The research revealed that there is little evidence of good practice regarding independent living programmes for children on the streets. Thus, the review draws on literature relating to care leavers' experiences, which are similar to those of their peers on the streets. The literature review highlights the need for independent living programmes to include support in: building positive relationships with committed and trusted adults who…
The Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group’s (CP MERG) Technical Working Group on Data Collection on Violence against Children conducted a review of quantitative studies on violence against children in order to give an overview of recent data-collection activities that will inform the development of guidelines for further data collection. This report presents the findings from the Working Group’s review. The review focuses on data that have been collected in low and middle-income countries, however, some higher-income countries were reviewed as well. The report includes an…
This report from Family for Every Child and partners summarises research on children’s reintegration that took place in Mexico, Moldova and Nepal from 2011 to 2014. The purpose of this research was to explore the experience and process of reintegration of separated boys and girls in a variety of contexts, speaking to children, their families and other stakeholders at different stages of the reintegration process. In total, 83 children were spoken to across the three contexts. These children included those in institutional care (Moldova), those living in small-scale residential care following…
This systematic review, co-registered within both the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations, summarizes the evidence from empirical studies comparing the effectiveness of interventions that have been established to promote inclusion and reintegration, and to reduce harm, in street-connected children and young people (0 to 24 years old) who work and/or live on the streets worldwide. The review includes 11 studies, evaluating 12 interventions from high income countries, in particular the United States. No studies from middle and low income countries were included due to…
Objectives: Children outside of family care face increased risk of threats to their well-being, have lower educational achievement, and experience adverse developmental outcomes. While it is generally accepted that early response and intervention is critical to reducing the risk of harm for children who have been separated from their families, it is not always clear what the most effective early response strategies are for assessing and addressing their immediate needs. The purpose of this review was to identify evidence-based early response strategies and interventions for…
HIV vulnerability refers to the factors that make it more likely that an individual or group will be infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Reducing HIV vulnerability thus often entails the improvement of structural elements in an individual’s context or environment. Promoting correct knowledge about HIV and STIs is the easiest part, and many organizations focus on education-based interventions. It has been widely recognized, however, that factors like gender (i.e. being a woman or a man, being homosexual or heterosexual), poverty or access to education have an equally important influence on…
This document contains an updated list of literature and bibliographies concerning children and families affected by HIV/AIDS around the world. Resource topics include education, child headed households, care for children and families, community mobilization and capacity building, socio-economic impact and microeconomic response, evaluation and assessment, costing interventions and national response, situational analysis, law and policy, psychosocial issues, scaling-up and older care providers. Most of the resources are focused on sub-Saharan Africa.