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This youth-led study sought to capture the perspectives of Indigenous youth who had been involved in the criminal justice system (or who were at high risk of such involvement), and who had accessed substance use treatment and/or had experienced barriers to accessing substance use services.
The study was conducted by members of McCreary Centre Society’s Youth Research Academy (YRA) with support from trained researchers.
The study built on a YRA project conducted in two British Columbia (BC) communities in 2016.
This video features a segment of a talk on the effects of care environments on children, hosted by the Christian Alliance for Orphans. The key speakers featured include Dr. Kathryn Whetten & Dr. Charles Nelson, who discuss the Positive Outcomes for Orphans study (POFO) and the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), respectively.
Dr. Nelson speaks about the institutionalization of children and its impact on the brain development of institutionalized children. Many children in institutions, says Dr. Nelson, experience isolation, a lack of response to distress, a…
This report summarizes the findings of a study on parental and alternative childcare in Luang Prabang (LPB) and Xayabury (XYB) provinces in Northern Lao People’s Democratic Republic (P.D.R.) The objectives were to document (a) existing family and community practices aimed at preventing parental separation and promoting parental care and family reintegration; and (b) alternative care arrangements for children separated or removed from, abandoned, or relinquished by their parents in these provinces.
The study found that there are few abandoned children in…
UNICEF; the Ministry of Education and Science; the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs, EveryChild; Save the Children and the Children of Georgia commissioned an independent assessment of the deinstitutionalisation of children in Georgia in March and April 2010. The independent assessment examined, specifically, the deinstitutionalisation of children in special education boarding schools and child care institutions. Through interviews with key informants, children who had been reintegrated into communities, and children in foster care as well as visits to small group homes, child…
Research examining the well-being and situation of young people leaving institutional care in Africa remains a little noticed field of study. There is hardly any research documenting young people‘s transitions from care to adulthood in the sub-Saharan context, especially in Kenya, there are no policies or regulations on after care life for young people who have exited institutional care.
The study wishes to improve the understanding of the experiences of careleavers in Kenya during the transition process, by allowing them to have their own voices heard. In so doing, the…
Research has clearly established that institutional forms of care for children can often have a serious and negative impact on children’s development and on children’s rights. Partly in response to this, recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on the development of community-based approaches, both to prevent separation, and to ensure that children who lose, or become separated from their own families, can have the benefits of normal family life within the community.
This paper offers a ten-point analysis of the typical negative features of institutional care, indicating how these…
The genocide, population displacements, and armed conflict in Rwanda gave rise to unprecedented numbers of children separated from their families. By April 2001, some 3,700 children remained in 28 centers for separated children. The Ministry of Local Administration and Social Affairs (MINALOC) is responsible for monitoring these centers, but its capacity to do so is very limited, and it does not have a set of legal standards to use in assessing the adequacy of the care provided in these centers. Problems are beginning to emerge in these centers, particularly among young people in late…