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Social SciencesThis study explores what unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) emphasise as important to (re)create a sense of home in foster care over time. Through a longitudinal design consisting of semi-structured, photo-elicitation interviews and by drawing on the ...
Frederikke Jarlby +2 more
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Foster Care and Its Transformation in Slovakia – Proclamation and Reality [PDF]
Sociální Pedagogika, 2015 The author presents the process of transforming residential institutional care and foster family care in the Slovak Republic at three levels. It is a socio-political context that led firstly to the fact that "education" and "health" orphanages passed ...
Albín Škoviera
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Different sizes, similar challenges: Out of home care for youth in Germany and the Netherlands [PDF]
Psychosocial Intervention, 2014 While there is a large difference in the number of young inhabitants in the Netherlands and Germany, their child protection frameworks are quite similar. In both countries, child protection services are mainlyfocused on youth aged 0 to 18 and regulations
Annemiek T. Harder +4 more
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Children, 2021 Parental substance misuse and mental health issues are major factors associated with infant placement into out-of-home care. Such placements may result in disruption and/or cessation of breastfeeding.
Stacy Blythe +4 more
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Home First: Stability and Opportunity in Out-of-Home Care
Psych, 2023 In this report, the concept of “Home First” is introduced for those children who require long-term, non-kin placements. The term “Home First” connotes a placement engendering stability and continuity; this concept is introduced in conjunction with an ...
Steven P. Segal
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Mental health of children and adolescents in foster care residential institutions in Northern Taiwan
Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry, 2020 Objectives: Studies reposted that children and adolescents entering foster care systems are at risk of mental health conditions. In this study, we intended to describe the prevalence of mental illnesses as well as the characteristics of emotional and ...
Shin- Heng Shen +4 more
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LIVING IN FOSTER CARE AND IN A CHILDREN’S HOME: VOICES OF CHILDREN AND THEIR CAREGIVERS
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2009 Foster care is clearly seen as the preferred option in alternate care of the vulnerable child inSouth Africa and internationally (Kiraly, 2001; Long, 2007; McKay, 2002; Morei, 2002).
Nevashnee Perumal, Madhu Kasiram
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AN ANALYSIS OF, AND DIFFERENT APPROACH TO, CHALLENGES IN FOSTER CARE PRACTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2013 Foster care is perceived to be the best and most widely applied form of alternative care for children besides their maternal home, because it most often occurs within the family context and is supposed to offer safety and protection to children.
Annelie Böning, Sandra Ferreira
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Enhancing Foster Care Home NGO Sustainability via Social Franchising
Management, 2020 Research Question: This paper investigates how the social franchising approach may enhance the sustainability and capability of Foster Home NGOs in the Global South.
Catherine T. Kwantes +3 more
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How Do People Become Foster Carers in Portugal? The Process of Building the Motivation
Social Sciences, 2019 Act no. 142/2015 highlights the importance of children out-of-home being placed in a family context. However, foster care continues to be an almost absent component in the Portuguese childcare system.
Elisete Diogo, Francisco Branco
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