What are the most effective early response strategies and interventions to assess and address the immediate needs of children outside of family care?

Boothby, Neil; Wessells, Michael G.; Williamson, John; Huebner, Gillian; Canter, Kelly; Rolland, Eduardo Garcia; Kutlesic, Vesna; Bader, Farah; Diaw, Léna; Levine, Maya; Malley, A. Dermod; Michels, Kara A.; Patel, Sabah; Rasa, Tanya; Ssewamala, Fred M.; Walker, V.A.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.09.004

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“…This strongly suggests that the improved anthropometric measurements observed in children living in Guppy Pond are not a result of the distribution of healthier children into this home. There is evidence that institutional care settings, particularly those that emphasize mental health support and create familial caretaking environments, can provide high quality care for vulnerable children who have been removed from insecure living situations (Aboud et al, ; Boothby et al, ; Neimetz, ; Sanou et al, ).…”

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Residential context, institutional alloparental care, and child growth in Jamaica

Nelson

2015

American J Hum Biol

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Residential context, institutional alloparental care, and child growth in Jamaica

Nelson

2015

American J Hum Biol

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“…It is well documented that separated children face psychological burdens and experience a multitude of risks and long-term impacts on their wellbeing [8,20,21,25,27]. To quote Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham [27 p37], "[The war] becomes enormously significant the moment it breaks up family life and uproots the first emotional attachments of the child within the family group."…”

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Prioritizing the Prevention of Child-Family Separation: The Value of a Public Health Approach to Measurement and Action

Mansourian¹

2020

Int. J. Child Health Nutr.

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Disaster-affected children are among the most vulnerable populations and face a wide range of threats to their health and wellbeing. One of the most significant risks to children is separation from their family, a problem that occurs in most humanitarian contexts. Because separation can have lasting adverse consequences for children's health and wellbeing, child protection actors frequently develop programs to respond to the needs of separated children. However, methods to measure prevalence, characteristics, and root causes of separation are scarce and rarely deployed in humanitarian settings. Existing measurement and programmatic approaches focus primarily on responding to already separated children and give little attention to the prevention of separation at a population level, the context and prevalence of separation, and the root causes of separation. Analyzing how a public health approach helps to fill these gaps, this paper presents a systematic, conceptual and practical case for incorporating a public health approach in the measurement of and programming for separation of children in humanitarian settings. It argues that a population-level, preventive approach to measurement and programming will complement the more common case-based, responsive approach to separation of children and enables children's well-being amidst adversity.

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“…It is also difficult because of the rapid increase in the number of residential care facilities, many operating without official government licensing or monitoring (Browne, 2009;Pinheiro, 2006). For example, in Uganda, the number of residential care facilities has increased from thirty (Boothby et al, 2012) to approximately 800 in a twenty-year period, but more than 95 per cent of the facilities have not been officially licensed (Riley, 2013). In Ghana, despite a coordinated effort by government and civil society aimed at decreasing reliance on residential care, the overall number of orphanages has increased from ninety-nine to 114 in the past several years and only a small fraction of those facilities are registered.…”

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Altruistic Exploitation: Orphan Tourism and Global Social Work

Rotabi

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Bunkers³

2016

Br J Soc Work

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Despite the abundant scientific evidence demonstrating the benefits of family-based care for children and the damages brought on by institution-based care, the social work profession continues to endorse and engage in practices that promote the latter. This is particularly true through orphan tourism and orphan volunteerismshort-and longer-term forms of providing aid to residential facilities caring for children. Using educational tours to orphanages, fundraising and service projects, and academic internships based in such facilities, the profession contributes to the perpetuation of institution-based care and forms of exploitation. Based on an exhaustive review of the global literature and utilising an innovative theoretical framework of 'altruistic exploitation', the authors explore the ironic juxtaposition of benefits and harms associated with orphan tourism to the various stakeholders. Volunteers are often exploited in fulfilling their altruistic motives while at the same time engaging in potential exploitation of the very children they aim to serve. Authors further examine social work implications in the policy, practice and research arenas, and provide examples and recommendations in preventing family separation, promoting family-based alternative care and empowering communities.

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What are the most effective early response strategies and interventions to assess and address the immediate needs of children outside of family care?

Cited by 21 publications

References 37 publications

Residential context, institutional alloparental care, and child growth in Jamaica

Residential context, institutional alloparental care, and child growth in Jamaica

Prioritizing the Prevention of Child-Family Separation: The Value of a Public Health Approach to Measurement and Action

Altruistic Exploitation: Orphan Tourism and Global Social Work

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