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This guide includes Technical Considerations on post-rape care for persons under the age of 18 in primary health centers that also provide HIV care.

This guide provides a basic framework, examples, resources, and contact information for health providers and managers to better understand and facilitate linkages with critical social and community services for comprehensive care of children and adolescents who have experienced sexual violence and exploitation beyond the clinical exam.

This report is a review of findings of social worker caseload, casework and workload management from frontline staff in child, youth and family service programs in New Zealand.

If or when immigrants come into contact with the child welfare system, depending on their country of origin, generational and legal status, reason for emigration, and immigration and resettlement experiences, it becomes especially challenging to untangle the range of factors that contribute to their capacity to protect and nurture their children.

THRIVES represents a select group of complementary strategies that reflect the best available evidence to help countries sharpen their focus on priorities with the greatest potential to reduce violence against children. This group of strategies contains evidence-based interventions that are classified as effective or promising, and it also includes prudent practice.

A study of a social work intervention through the school setting to girls was conducted to see what impacts it could have on increasing educational opportunities for girls.

To gain insight into how practitioners can best meet the needs of grandfamilies, 40 custodial grandmothers and their adolescent grandchildren were interviewed. Results of a qualitative analysis indicated that grandmothers and grandchildren did not make clear distinctions between various types of services and service providers. Grandchildren emphasized the need for mental health professionals to facilitate mentoring and to provide opportunities for grandchildren to socialize with other grandchildren who have been through similar circumstances.

This online resource was developed to identify and facilitate access to useful resources that will help field teams and organizations around the world improve service provision for young people living with HIV (YPLHIV). Each resource is accompanied by a brief synopsis and recommendations for use, so that field teams can assess quickly and easily whether the resource is valuable or relevant to their programs. The compendium includes resources for PLHIV related to: HIV care; HIV treatment; positive, health, dignity, and prevention (PHDP); sexual and reproductive health; and disclosure.

This report describes patterns of torture and human rights abuses among Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the long-term mental health implications for both groups. The report is based on CVT’s direct experiences with clients and is the product of a series of in-person interviews with men, women and children who either survived torture in their home countries or have close family members who are torture survivors.

The way that the social work profession is practiced within the Canadian Armed Forces is specific, unique and guided by directive that are different from those of civilian organizations. Social work practice must take into consideration the places where it is being practiced, and social work in the military context present unique challenges.

This study is a follow up to recommendations of UNICEF and ISS made following a 2009 study on adoption practices and procedures in Vietnam. Information included in this report gives voice to the biological families, which are too often the silent actor in adoption matters, but also sheds light on some concrete reasons that could compel families to relinquish their child such as lack of access to information and services, remote working place, economic distress, etc.

The Grand Challenges for Social Work are designed to focus a world of thought and action on the most compelling and critical social issues of our day. Information and communication technology (ICT) has the potential to dramatically shift and enhance social work practice in the coming decade. Integrating technology in to social work and creating practice innovations through ICT will make transformative social change possible.

The purpose(s) of this article are to: (1) propose a functional framework for understanding and impacting the basic social policy development processes; (2) review and discuss concepts and perspectives of service eligibility as a seminal element of social policy and services delivery with consideration of the factors and forces, which influence service eligibility definitions and applications within social policy development processes; (3) illustrate the range of national socio-economic indicators of social priorities and policy development; and (4) propose implications for social work prof

There appears to be growing awareness of and demand for a child protection system that works in harmony with the cultural and social contexts in which they operate. Increasingly, there is an understanding of the role that culture has in determining how and why a system functions as it does and ultimately the effect it has on the protection outcomes for children. In many countries with few resources, it is imperative to draw upon positive cultural assets, including protective family and community practices, such as kinship care and traditional mediation processes.

This paper explores how medical social work is designed and implemented in Pakistan, and the field of medical social work is defined as it relates to Pakistani culture.

A summary of 10 academic pieces regarding burnout in the social and humanitarian work fields, the documents provides data regarding issues, such as potential gender differences in facing and coping with burnout and best practices that could be implemented to prevent and solve burnout. Some of the other documents discuss burnout in relation with other issues faced by social and humanitarian workers, such as stress and post-traumatic stress disorder.

This presentation was given by Beth Bradford at the ISPCAN European Conference in September 2015.

This document highlights some of the key learnings from two districts in Rwanda that can be used by organizations, governments and other social and child welfare actors that are implementing deinstitutionalization programs. Professional case workers and community psychosocial workers were found to play key roles in the reintegration process and in prevention activities.

This new working paper focuses on the role of gatekeeping in strengthening family-based care and reforming alternative care systems. Gatekeeping refers to systematic procedures aimed at ensuring that alternative care for children is used only when necessary, and that the type of care provided is suitable to the individual child.

The aim of this study from Friends International is to identify the perceptions of potential short-term international tourists concerning children's residential care in Cambodia.