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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

GLBTQ RCC NYC USA: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning and residential child care in New York City, United States of America

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2009
It is impossible to calculate accurately the number of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) young people in residential child care as this would depend upon all GLBTQ young people being confident enough and willing to identify ...
Mike Sutherland
doaj   +1 more source

A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental involvement in residential child care: helping parents to provide a secure base

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2011
In the Netherlands, about five percent children receive some type of youth care. This is governed by the Youth Care Act, whereby children and parents get support for problems which may arise in the process of child development or parenting.
Esther M.W. Geurts   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mental health service use among Filipino American and Korean American young adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the heightened mental health challenges amid rising Anti‐Asian sentiment, Asian Americans have significantly underutilized mental health services, a trend that persisted even before the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although considerable efforts have been made to understand how various factors are related to mental health service use in this ...
Michael Park   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

'We're like one, big, dysfunctional family': struggling to define the role of residential child care workers

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2015
Understanding the complexities of working in residential child care is a difficult, and somewhat daunting, task. Research has highlighted that staff members perform a number of duties in the day-to-day lives of young people (Connelly and Milligan, 2012).
Nadine Fowler
doaj   +1 more source

Professional foster care as an alternative to residential care: it makes economic sense [PDF]

open access: yes
There is growing concern in the child welfare sector with the quality of care being provided through Residential Care out-of-home care services. In Victoria, the recommended policy direction is to move away from standard Residential Care as much as ...
Brett Inder, Kathryn Gor
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