Kinship Care in Lauderdale Lakes: An Option to Detention
Florida Public Health Review, 2016 This paper focuses on the City of Lauderdale Lakes identifying its large African American and significant Caribbean population as faced with Disproportionate Minority Contact and high juvenile detention rates. Statistics indicate the City has a high rate
Lessep Duncan
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Kinship Care and Child Protection in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Trauma Violence Abuse, 2023 Hallett N, Garstang J, Taylor J.
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Are Child Domestic Workers Worse Off than Their Peers? Comparing Children in Domestic Work, Child Marriage, and Kinship Care with Biological Children of Household Heads: Evidence from Zimbabwe. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Musizvingoza R, Blagbrough J, Pocock NS.
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On the Origin of the Family [PDF]
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family.
Francesconi, Marco +2 more
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Public Health ResearchBackground Children and young people with experience of being in care (e.g. foster care, kinship care, residential care or at home with a supervision requirement order) are at higher risk of adverse mental health and well-being outcomes compared to the ...
Rhiannon Evans +10 more
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The Professionalisation of Foster Care in Norway
Social InclusionIn Norway, as elsewhere, child welfare services have long prioritised placing children in foster homes over residential care when children cannot live with their parents, to ensure upbringing in family settings.
Renee Thørnblad, Jeanette Skoglund
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The scale, scope and impact of alternative care for OVC in developing countries [PDF]
, 2010 This item is archived in the repository for materials published for the USAID supported Orphans and Vulnerable Children Comprehensive Action Research Project (OVC-CARE) at the Boston University Center for Global Health and Development.Over 145 million ...
Beard, Jennifer +5 more
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“Wasn’t in Our Game Plan”: Reflections of Older Grandparents Navigating Child Welfare Systems
SocietiesKinship caregivers encounter complex issues when interfacing with the child welfare system. Most kinship care families are not connected to child welfare.
Tina L. Peterson
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Researching the Linkages Between Social Protection and Children's Care in Rwanda: The VUP and its Effects on Child Well-Being, Care, and Family Reunification [PDF]
, 2014 This research investigates the links between the Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP), child well-being, children's care and family reunification. It is part of a wider study on the linkages between social protection and children's care in Rwanda, Ghana ...
Helen Shelmerdine, Keetie Roelen
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Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionWestern Australia has one of the highest rates of Aboriginal children entering out-of-home care in Australia. Kinship care is the preferred culturally safe out-of-home care option for Aboriginal children, yet all jurisdictions, including ...
Sasha Moodie +12 more
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