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This mixed-methods systematic review asks what is known about children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents when in out-of-home care. To address this question 37 studies were coded to identify children’s experiences and thoughts regarding contact with their parents. Data synthesis was performed in three stages. The frequency of the identified factors across all included research was determined and qualitative and quantitative syntheses were performed.
The results reveal that children hold thoughts and views on several aspects of contact with their birth…
Background
Mentoring, specifically peer mentoring, emerged in the child welfare setting in the early 2000s. Peer parent programs provide child welfare involved families a unique opportunity to connect with parents that have successfully navigated the child welfare system and who share similar lived experiences. No …
ABSTRACT
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…
This Evidence Brief provides an overview of the systematic review. The systematic review focuses on protection interventions for UASC in humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries or in proximate countries of asylum since 1983 and seeks to examine the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children, during the period of separation, in humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries.
There is evidence to suggest that scale of separation in conflict is greater than the scale of separation in natural disasters. Research suggests increase in rates…
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…
This report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees details the experiences of Syrian refugee children and youth. The report presents findings from a research project that sought to understand the refugee crisis from the perspectives of children by conducting a desk review, interviews, and focus groups with children and families to collect both quantitative as well as qualitative data and narrative information on the daily lives of Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon and Jordan. The goal of this report is to put a human face on the crisis, to raise awareness of the child protection…
This Strategic Paper, from the Igarapé Institute, reviews emerging capabilities of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to prevent violence against children in the Global South. The paper features case studies from Benin, Brazil, Kenya, Uganda and other countries and presents key findings from the review of emerging technological trends, typologies, and threats around the world, including findings on the use of technology in family tracing related to children separated from their families during emergencies.
Introduction
Long-term separation between child and family due to armed conflict creates a number of challenges for family reunification programs. Whereas emergency programs appropriately work towards managing effective “lost and found” type of operations, after long separation, the physical act of reunifying is often not sufficient. This is particularly true for children who are placed in residential centers as an interim solution and for children returning to extended family members. Experience shows that after years in care, children have become institutionalized and are commonly ill…
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.
One of the three new programme priorities of the Bernard van Leer Foundation is to help strengthen the care environment of the child. It does this through a stronger focus of its grantmaking on work that (1) supports parents and caregivers who are raising children in environments of stress, (2) helps parents and caregivers in their role of assuring children’s rights and development and (3) addresses the needs of children without parental care.
The importance of the family in a child’s life cannot be overstated as the article on “How poverty separates children and parents” (page 23)…