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Katisi, Masego; Jefferies, Philip; Dikolobe, Olebogeng; Moeti, Onkarabile; Brisson, Joshua; Ungar, Michael – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019
Background: Contextually relevant interventions are needed to support the well-being of at-risk adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, the large number of children who have been orphaned, such as by HIV/AIDS, are in need of interventions to foster their resilience. Objective: The goal of this study was to investigate the efficacy of the…
Descriptors: Children, Child Welfare, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
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Sinclair, Ian; Fletcher, John; O'Higgins, Aoife; Luke, Nikki; Thomas, Sally – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
Children 'in care' have, on average, lower educational attainment than their peers. This article tests the hypothesis that many of these children can 'catch-up', if in stable placements and secondary schools 'apparently effective' with other children with 'similar' difficulties. In a cohort of 542,998 16-year-old English children in mainstream…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Foster Care, At Risk Students, Disadvantaged Youth
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O'Brien, Michael – Child & Youth Services, 2011
Most of what is known about the effectiveness of child welfare is found in studies of specific programs. Little is known about the effectiveness of the routine services provided in child protection systems. Family and Children's Services of Renfrew County is a Canadian child welfare agency that decided to expand its mission beyond protecting…
Descriptors: Evidence, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Social Work
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2012
The Children's Headline Indicators are a set of measures designed to focus policy attention and to help guide and evaluate policy development on key issues for children's health, development and wellbeing in 19 priority areas. They were endorsed by health, community and disability services ministers and education systems officials in 2006.…
Descriptors: Well Being, Workshops, Social Networks, Children