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Mental Health Needs of Children in Care: Interview with Mr Niels Rygaard

This interview focuses primarily on the mental health needs of children in care and, with this objective, has been divided into three sections: exploring institutional care, family and community-based care, and the context in South Asia, respectively.

Trauma-Informed Care in the Childcare and Family Placement Process

Trauma-informed care (TIC) is critical in institutional settings to address not only the trauma of experiences that lead children to be enrolled in alternative care, such as childcare institutions (CCIs), but also the inherent trauma that comes from a child being separated from her or his family.

ResearchLORNA MCCONNVILLEJuly 16, 2020trauma-informed care, mental health, India, Alternative care

Regulating Australia’s Participation in the Orphanage Industry

Orphanage trafficking, where children are recruited or transferred into residential care institutions for exploitation and profit, is regarded as an emerging form of child exploitation internationally.