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Differences in ambulance attendances between children with and without an identified history of out-of-home-care
Ryan Baldwin, Susan Baidawi, Christine Grove, Tina Lam, Rowan P. Ogeil, Ziad Nehme, Agatha Faulkner, Naomi Beard, Dan I. Lubman and Debbie Scott 

The basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot evaluation: Protocol of a quasi-experimental evaluation
David Westlake, Sally Holland, Michael Sanders, Elizabeth Schroeder, Kate E. Pickett, Matthew Johnson, Stavros Petrou, Rod Hick, Louise Roberts, Guillermo Rodriguez-Guzman, Dimitris Vallis, Patrick Fahr, Zoe Bezeczky, Vibhor Mathur and Harriet Lloyd 

Challenges Experienced by Youths Leaving Kinship Foster Care in Johannesburg, South Africa
Catherine Zimudzi and Sandile L. Dhludhlu 

Disabled people as foster carers – closing the recruitment gap and more
Peter Unwin, Alexandra Jones and Becki Meakin

Caregivers on point: a randomized treatment–control prevention trial for foster and kinship caregivers to reduce behavior challenges among children in foster care
Sarah J. Beal, Cynthia Zion, Constance A. Mara, Meera A. Patel, Amie F. Bettencourt, Susan M. Breitenstein, Lisa M. Vaughn, Mary V. Greiner and Robert T. Ammerman 

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Quality of Life and the Mediating Roles of Self-Efficacy and Self-Directedness in Youth Residential Care Leavers
Milou Leiting, Katharina Beck, David Bürgin, Jörg M. Fegert, Nils Jenkel, Cyril Boonmann, Klaus Schmeck, Alexander Grob and Marc Schmid 

Child maltreatment in young adults with residential youth care background: Prevalence and post-placement trends
Mirjam Elisabeth Åsen, Inga Schalinski, Stine Lehmann, Stian Lydersen, Timo Von Oertzen and Hanne Klæboe Greger

 Digital group archives in residential childcare: an investigation into memory responsibility
Siân E. Lucas, Andrew Burns, Ruth Emond and Laura Reid 

Understanding factors that impact the acquisition of Independent Living Skills among young people transitioning from Out-of-Home Care
Michael Starr, Reinie Cordier, Eduwin Pakpahan, Donna Chung and Lauren Parsons

Screen time and mental health: a prospective analysis of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
Jason M. Nagata, Abubakr A.A. Al-Shoaibi, Alicia W. Leong, Gabriel Zamora, Alexander Testa, Kyle T. Ganson and Fiona C. Baker 

Grit, Social Support, and Academic Success of Youth Formerly in Foster Care
Erin Stevenson and Stephanie Saulnier

“A footnote in the file”: are we Doing enough to attend to children’s experiences of intimate partner violence in out-of-home care settings?
Angelique Jenney, Lauren Birks and Nina Frampton

Raising post-secondary education participation of young people transitioning from care: The effects of extended legislative support
Naomi Tootell and Andrew Harvey






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POLICY

Advancing Opportunities for Youth Aging out of Foster Care with Supervised Independent Living Programs (SILPs)

UK: Care Experience, Ethnicity and Youth Justice Involvement: Key Trends and Policy Implications

Improving the lifelong trajectory of Australian infants in out-of-home care: An evidence-based case for a Specialist Infant Court 

PRACTICE GUIDE

First Nations Care Leavers: Supporting Better Transitions

REPORTS

Kinship Care | Growing up in Kinship Care

Social Media | Potential Risks of Content, Features, and Functions: A Closer Look at the Science Behind How Social Media Affects Youth

Mental Health | Still Ringing the Alarm: An Enduring Call to Action for Black Youth Suicide Prevention

Covid-19 | Covid-19 Learning Report: Challenges and Innovations

Trauma | ‘We are on a journey’: implementing trauma informed approaches in Northern Ireland

REVIEWS

Juvenile Justice | Punitive Instead of Rehabilitative: The Role of Restitution in the Juvenile Justice System and the Need for Reconstruction

Outcomes | Improving Outcomes for Children with Child Protection Concerns who have been exposed to Domestic Abuse

RESEARCH and STUDIES

Systems | The Logic Behind a Cohesive Youth Care System

Briefing | Parental Risk Factors and Children Entering Care

Administration | Rates of out-of-home care among children in Canada: an analysis of national administrative child welfare data

Physical Space | Growing Up Together: The Design of Small-Scale Youth Care Facilities

The Law | Empowering Children and Youth through Law and Participation

Foster Care | The Future of Foster Care: New Science on Old Problems

Ethics | Ethical Research Involving Children

Care Experience | Tuning into Child and Youth Care: An Arts-Based Audio-Drama Inquiry with Child and Youth Care Practitioners who have lived in Residential Care

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Resilience | Strengthening resilience: Promoting positive school mental health among Indigenous youth

Development | World Health Organisation: Helping Adolescents Thrive

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What loss and grief look like for Children and Youth in Care

Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth: Consensus Statement of the International Work Group on Therapeutic Residential Care

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