Revitalizing residential care for children and youth cross-national trends and challenges
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Revitalizing residential care for children and youth [electronic resource] : cross-national trends and challenges / edited by James K. Whittaker, Ph.D., Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor Emeritus School of Social Work, The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States, Lisa Holmes, PhD, Professor, Applied Social Science, School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, Jorge F. Del Valle, Ph.D., Full Professor of Psychology Intervention, Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Spain, Sigrid James, Ph.D, Professor of Theory and Methods of Social Pedagogy University of Kassel, Department of Social Work and Social Welfare, Kassel, Germany.
"This volume addresses the question of how societies with developed welfare and social service systems are assessing current needs and future directions in their residential child and youth care sectors. This includes dealing with the historical concerns raised about the placement of children and youth in residential care settings as well as identifying innovative strategies, which offer new pathways for the integration of this often neglected area of service with families and communities. This review builds on an emergent and growing literature of cross-national child welfare policies and practices including child protection arrangements (Gilbert et al., 2011) and meeting the needs of migrant children (Skivenes et al., 2014). Our contributors share a common child welfare goal of seeking to ensure healthy growth and development for children served in order to achieve desired social outcomes for the community at large. Each of the sixteen countries selected for inclusion will be viewed through a common template including the policy context (historical developments, key trends and policy initiatives), promising programmatic innovations, and information obtained from a matrix developed in an earlier research effort (Erasmus+ Project) by Sigrid James and colleagues from five European countries (James et al., 2021). The Erasmus+ project, along with the matrix and rationale for its use, is described in detail in Chapter 3"--
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International policy exchange series
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Revitalizing residential care for children and youth (Online)
Revitalizing residential care for children and youth [electronic resource] : cross-national trends and challenges / edited by James K. Whittaker, Ph.D., Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor Emeritus School of Social Work, The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States, Lisa Holmes, PhD, Professor, Applied Social Science, School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, Jorge F. Del Valle, Ph.D., Full Professor of Psychology Intervention, Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Spain, Sigrid James, Ph.D, Professor of Theory and Methods of Social Pedagogy University of Kassel, Department of Social Work and Social Welfare, Kassel, Germany.