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Next month, Australia's Northern Territory Royal Commission will report findings from its investigation into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory and offer recommendations for the youth justice and child protection systems. In this PM Radio story, the family of an indigenous teen placed in residential care who recently took her own life calls on the government to prioritize kinship care placements in its upcoming recommendations.
World Challenge announced that it will no longer be offering orphanage volunteer placements overseas for students; in this radio interview, Kate van Doore explains why institutional care is harmful to children and how orphanage volunteering perpetuates and contributes to the harm children experience in institutions.
In this radio interview, Leigh Mathews of ReThink Orphanages discusses why orphanage volunteering is harmful to the development of children and provides tips for those seeking international volunteering opportunities.
In this episode of BBC World Service Radio, Shannon Sennefield of Catholic Relief Services describes the importance of the 'Changing the Way We Care' project, a semi-finalist for the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change grant. The MacArthur Foundation narrowed down their $100 million dollar grant proposals to 8 finalists and the BBC explored each of these project. At about fourteen minutes into this episode, host Ed Butler introduces Changing the Way We Care and hears about the proposal to end the institutionalization of children.
Sennefield describes how parents are often put…
In this BBC Radio interview, Jane Garvey speaks to Australian Senator Linda Reynolds, CEO of Australian Christian Churches International Relief Rebecca Nhep, and CEO of Lumos Georgette Mulheir about the motivation behind Australia's potential ban on orphanage tourism.
In an interview with David Bevan of ABC Radio, child protection advocate Karen Flanagan, Save the Children, discusses the harms of orphanage tourism and funding as well as the Australian government's consideration of a ban on orphanage tourism.
To hear the interview, please visit the ABC News website by clicking the link above.
In this Business of Giving podcast episode, Denver Frederick interviews Catholic Relief Services President and CEO Sean Callahan about "Changing the Way We Care," a collaborative project between CRS, Lumos, and Maestral International and semi-finalist for the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change competition.
In this podcast episode of The Wire, Kate van Doore discusses the unintended, but harmful, impact of volunteering in orphanages.
This podcast episode of Reveal explores the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children involved in Texas's foster care system. Children involved in the system tell their stories of their lives in foster care and how their experiences led them to run, and then recruited into the sex trafficking industry.
To listen to the podcast episode "No Place to Run," please click the link below. To read the podcast summary from the Texas Tribune, please click the image to the right.
This talk by Lucy Hurst-Brown from BBC Radio 4's, Four Thought series discusses the institutionalization of people with disabilities, including young people, and its effects. In the segment, Hurst-Brown shares personal experiences from her work with people with learning disabilities and the positive changes many experienced as a result of deinstitutionalization and community reintegration efforts.
However, Hurst-Brown also highlights many of the ways in which people with disabilities are still segregated from communities and from society. There are over 3,000 people with…