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A brief 2-page overview of what steps should be taken if and when a social worker or other community worker admits a child to a residential institution.
Results of a survey examining the quality of institutional care in Sri Lanka. Highlights gaps in existing policies and procedures.
Russia is home to one of the fastest-growing AIDS epidemics in the world, but the government has done little to address the problem.
Reports on the status of children living in residential facilities in Nepal. Includes detailed survey instruments in appendicies.
Describes and analyses abuse in institutional care using a case study of a home for girls in the developed world.
This report presents the survey Kevin Browne and colleagues conducted in 33 European countries to identify the number and characteristics of children less than three placed in residential care without their parents for more than three months during the year ending December 31, 2003. The purpose was to assess the rate and cost of residential care as a response to children in adversity.
A brief document advocating for the strengthening and support of community based responses to children and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa.
This paper analyses the financial costs of residential services as compared to community-based services in Moldova. It also addresses the negative effects of institutional care on the well-being of children and society as a whole.
A report discussing the advent and perpetuation of institutional care in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union prior to and since the end of the communist regime. It also provides examples of family-based care as models of care to substitute institutional care and offers recommendations to donors, NGOs and governments for child care reform based on their experience in CEE and FSU.
This one-page document identifies some difficulties that youth face in leaving institutional care. Offers recommendations to assist financial, emotional, and educational preparation for emancipation.