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Into the conceptual “sin bin”: the contested positioning of
children who display harmful sexual behaviours
Lynne O.
Cairns, Simon Hackett and Janelle Rabe
Children as victims and offenders: rethinking the binary
Polina Smiragina-Ingelström and Natalia Maystorovich Chulio
Understanding the
Transformation of YIM Professionals in Youth Care
Suzanne
de Ruig, Jip Boersema, Floor van Rooij, Marion van Hattum and
Chris Kuiper
Parent–Child Systemic
Therapy for Court-Involved Children with Behavioral
Disturbances: A Clinician’s Perspective
Richard Don
Tustin
The Importance of Social Support for Well-Being Among Late
Adolescents With Experience of Out-of- Home Care in Sweden
Matilda Karlsson, Therése Skoog, Martin Bergström, Tina M.
Olsson
Religion and Spiritual
Development in Youth Care: A Literature Review
Jos de
Kock
A scoping review
of child maltreatment prevention in Canada: considerations for
equity and access
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Daniel Ayimah
and Faiza Abdul
Where are the
services for fathers who experience repeat appearances in local
authority care proceedings? A review of the literature
Vanessa Baxter, Georgia Philip and Lindsay Youansamouth
“We can do this the
easy way, or the hard way”: Involuntary Youth Transport and the
lack of Oversight
Ellie Anderson
A Home-Centred
Approach to Support Children and Young People in Out-of-Home
Care
Kristin Natalier, Sharyn Goudie, Michelle Jones and
Kate Seymour
Examining Policies and Practices to Support Young People
Transitioning From Out-of- Home Care (OOHC) in Asia: What Do We
Know From Existing Grey Literature?
Rangga Radityaputra,
Philip Mendes and Susan Baidawi
Policy vs. Practice:
Supporting Biological Family Connections for Youth in Substitute
Care
Ande Nesmith
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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