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Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care | Carmen Schroder, Olivia Crivari, Phillippa Carnemolla, Libby Callaway
Instability at Transitions and Within Continuity: Navigating Maltreatment and Relational Impermanence in Out-of-Home Care | Olivia D. Chang, Yujeong Chang, Erna Chiu
“I was so Disconnected”: The Role of Social Bonds in Surviving Childhood Maltreatment | Samantha A. Manuel, Lynne M. Vieraitis
Parenting Support for Mothers Raised in Out-Of-Home Care | Jamie Ussher, Sarah Whitcombe-Dobbs, Michael Tarren-Sweeney
Transitioning out of the child welfare system in Manitoba, Canada: a qualitative exploration of stakeholders’ perspectives | Roberta L. Woodgate, Corinne A. Isaak, Marlyn Bennett, Donna Martin, Pauline Tennent, Clayton Sandy and Justin Lys
Diminishing Delinquency: Social Support as a Moderator between Exposure to Community Violence and Delinquency in Adolescents | Leonardo Dominguez Ortega, Gabriel A. León, Alexandra Sturm, Diana E. Santacrose
Children's narratives of violence: Qualitative findings from a violence study with young children in South Africa | Pamela Maluleke, Hannabeth Franchino-Olsen, Franziska Meinck, Mpho Silima, Nicola Christofides, Christina Thurston, Kabelo Maleke, Khudejha Asghar, Nataly Woollett
Caregivers’ Perspectives and Experiences on the Transition of Youth with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism Out of Residential Care | Wendy M. Mupaku, Berni Kelly, Adrian D. van Breda
The intersection of sexual and criminal exploitation for children going missing in residential care: patterns; problems; and opportunities | Viviana Sastre-Gomez, Gemma McKibbin, Genevieve Bloxsom, Cathy Humphreys, Sophie Dixon
The Heart of Practice: Building Cultures of Relational Care | Mike Farrington, Ali Wigzell
Cross-border placement of children in care: Setting the research agenda | Olga Ulybina
‘I’ve Always Managed on My Own’ — Exploring Resilience Through the Voices of Children in Foster Care | Amanda Angelöw, Joel Hultman, Alma Lamberti Schonfeld, Kerstin Neander, Elia Psouni
Beyond Organizing Structures: Necessary Conditions to Provide Integrated Care for Youth at-Risk in Practice | Laura C. M. Veerman, Laura A. Nooteboom, Robert R. J. M. Vermeiren, Anne van der Maas, Lieke van Domburgh, Eva A. Mulder
“They Call Me the Girl from Residential Care”: Risks and Stressors of Care Leavers in Arab Society in Israel | Samah Mahamid, Haneen Karram-Elias, Yafit Sulimani-Aidan
Miscellaneous
POLICY
UK: Care Experience, Ethnicity and Youth Justice Involvement: Key Trends and Policy Implications
PRACTICE GUIDES
The Heart of Practice: Building Cultures of Relational Care
First Nations Care Leavers: Supporting Better Transitions
FOUNDATIONS
Foundational Texts for Child and Youth Care Practice and Theory
REPORTS
First Nations Canada | First Nations Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect – 2023
Residential Care | The Radical Movement to Divest from Youth Residential Treatment
Education | Evidence Base on Good Practice in Schools to Meet the Needs of Students Living in Out-Of-Home Care
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
Residential Care | Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth: A Consensus Statement of the International Work Group on Therapeutic Residential Care
Juvenile Justice | Punitive Instead of Rehabilitative: The Role of Restitution in the Juvenile Justice System and the Need for Reconstruction
RESEARCH and STUDIES
Therapies | Child-Centred Music Therapy
Administration | Care experienced children and young people: Research insights from administrative data in the UK
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
TOOLKITS
Resilience | Strengthening resilience: Promoting positive school mental health among Indigenous youth
Development | World Health Organisation: Helping Adolescents Thrive
PRACTITIONERS
MISCELLANEOUS
What loss and grief look like for Children and Youth in Care
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