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Explores the negative impacts of loss of parental care on children. Advocates for reform for children based on assertion that failure to keep children in families, out of residential institutions and off the streets, will be another barrier to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
This document outlines EveryChild’s approach to the growing problem of children without parental care by defining key concepts, analysing the nature and extent of the problem, exploring factors which place children at risk of losing parental care, and examining the impact of a loss of parental care on children’s rights.
Collection of abstracts from conference presentations
Programme of presentations and activities
Summary of conference delegates' declarations and recommendations
This paper examines the efficacy of Independent Living (IL) services in the United States in preparing foster youth to live “independently”, and calls into question the appropriateness of an “independence” goal for youth aging out of foster care.
For this study, surveys were employed to explore the experiences of children in care and their carers about traditional fostering.
Summary of conference declarations and recommendations prepared by over 400 conference participants emphasizing the crucial importance of family based care for children without parental care.
This thesis explores the experiences and meanings that are attributed to kinship care by caregivers, young people of African descent, and social workers.
This thesis explores the experiences and meanings that are attributed to kinship care by caregivers, young people of African descent, and social workers.