Child and Youth Care Resources

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

FOUNDATIONS

Foundational Texts for Child and Youth Care Practice and Theory

REPORTS

Workforce | Poverty, pay and the case for change in social care: Levels of poverty among the UK residential care workforce and the impact of raising the wage floor

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

Mentoring | The Impact of Mentoring and Befriending Practice and Interventions for At-Risk and Care-Experienced Children and Young People

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

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

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

CYC Practice Hints

MISCELLANEOUS

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

Karen VanderVen's Points Pack

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