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Belonging and Reclaiming Identity: Understanding the Lived Experiences of
Youth Adopted From Foster Care in Transracial Families
Ana Berman,
Matthew A. Ruderman, Ana Carina Ordaz, Jill Waterman and Audra Langley
Patterns of psychotropic medication use among young people living in
out-of-home care: A scoping review and meta-analysis of international
literature
Kostas Hatzikiriakidis, Emma Galvin, Luke Patitsas and
Helen Skouteris
The Tale of
Professional Parenting: Caregiver Experiences in Dealing with Delinquent
Children in Zimbabwe's Residential Care Centres
Charles Simbarashe
Gozho, Noel Garikai Muridzo and Taruvinga Muzingili
Unravelling the
dynamics of successful collaboration and the potential for community-based
learning in child and youth care
Raisuyah Bhagwan
A scoping review of
the transition experiences and outcomes of young women leaving residential
out-of-home care
Yujie Zhao, Jacinta Waugh and Philip Mendes
The Lived Experiences of Youth-Workers:
Understanding Service-Delivery Practices Within Queensland Non-Government
Residential Youth Care Organisations
Kassandra Wales, Ines Zuchowski
and Jemma Hamley
Trauma-Informed Understanding of
Depression Among Justice-Involved Youth
Richard Dembo, Alexis Swezey,
Rachel Herrera, Luz Melendez, Camille Geiger, Kerry Bittrich, Jennifer
Wareham and James Schmeidler
Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz and Kyllie Cripps
Placing Children in Residential Care: A Scoping Review of Decision-Making
and Matching Criteria
Chiara Monti
Foster Care on the Market: Swedish Independent Foster Care Agencies in an
International Context
Evelina Fridell Lif, Tommy Lundström, David
Pålsson, Marie Sallnäs and Emelie Shanks
Patterns of Adverse
Childhood Experiences from a Longitudinal South African Community Sample: A
Latent Class Analysis
Christina Thurston, Aja Louise Murray,
Hannabeth Franchino‑Olsen and Franziska Meinck
Managing Risk and Child Participation in Out-Of-Home Care: Practitioner
Perspectives
Eliana Moreno, Rhys Thorpe and Amelia Wheeler
Miscellaneous
POLICY
UK: Care Experience, Ethnicity and Youth Justice Involvement: Key Trends and Policy Implications
PRACTICE GUIDE
First Nations Care Leavers: Supporting Better Transitions
FOUNDATIONS
Foundational Texts for Child and Youth Care Practice and Theory
REPORTS
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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