Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth: Cross-National Trends and Challenges

Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth: Cross-National Trends and Challenges examines how developed welfare and social service systems assess current needs and future directions in their residential child and youth care sectors. It includes individual country analyses and regional exemplars of innovative programs and practices, with implications for policy reform, empirical research, and residential program innovation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 488 pages
Publication date: 08 February 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth: Cross-National Trends and Challenges delves into the critical examination of how societies with well-established welfare and social service systems evaluate their current needs and chart future directions in their residential child and youth care sectors. This comprehensive exploration encompasses addressing historical concerns related to the placement of children and youth in residential care settings, as well as identifying innovative strategies that offer fresh avenues for integrating this often overlooked sector of service within the broader realm of child welfare.

Thirteen countries, carefully selected for inclusion, are subjected to a rigorous analysis through a common matrix. This matrix encompasses various aspects, including the current policy context, prominent trends and initiatives, the characteristics of the children and youth served, the preparation of residential care personnel, promising programmatic innovations, and the existing strengths and challenges within each country. To enhance the understanding of the individual country analyses, regional exemplars of innovative residential programs and practices are provided in areas such as family engagement, assisting youth with the transition from care to community, showcasing promising model programs, and offering reflections on recent policy reform initiatives.

In addition to drawing valuable insights from each country, the concluding chapter of the book identifies specific implications for policy reform, empirical research, and residential program innovation. What sets this book apart is its systematic cross-national appraisal of residential care for children and youth, with a keen focus on identifying innovative policies and practices supported by robust research. By doing so, it makes a unique and valuable contribution to the international child welfare literature.

Weight: 794g
Dimension: 242 x 164 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780197644300