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{"title":"Young people’s experiences of support, belonging, and freedom before and after leaving residential care institutions in Kenya","authors":"Sarah Elizabeth Neville ,&nbsp;K. Megan Collier ,&nbsp;Elizabeth K. Klein ,&nbsp;Joanna Wakia ,&nbsp;John Hembling ,&nbsp;Beth Bradford ,&nbsp;Martin Kiandiko ,&nbsp;Alividzah Kituku ,&nbsp;Maureen Obuya ,&nbsp;Nelson Nyabola ,&nbsp;Jane Dzame Karisa ,&nbsp;Ronald Kwicha Baya ,&nbsp;Indrani Saran ,&nbsp;Margaret Lombe ,&nbsp;Thomas M. Crea","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108719","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108719","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In Kenya, estimates suggest almost 60,000 children live in residential care institutions, also called orphanages and Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs). The Government of Kenya has undertaken reform efforts and aims to reunify children in residential care with families where possible. This study aimed to explore how young people in Kenya who have lived in residential care describe and conceptualize their experiences of life in residential care and life after leaving residential care. The study used qualitative data from focus group discussions with children ages 11 to 17 who had been reunified with family after living in residential care (n = 41) and with young adults who exited residential care during young adulthood (n = 29). The themes that emerged from the analysis fell under five themes: material resources, information and guidance, belonging, emotional support, and freedom. Young people tended to have better access to material resources in residential care than afterwards, but had both positive and negative experiences with emotional support and guidance in both settings. After leaving residential care, young people valued being able to be close to their families and having more personal agency and freedom, though some believed that increased freedom came at the cost of reduced safety. These results indicate the importance of family strengthening and individualized case management for children reunifying with families after leaving residential care.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108719"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Youth with FASD: Understanding the challenges and identifying supports to foster healthy development","authors":"Maya Peled ,&nbsp;Annie Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108736","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108736","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), resulting from prenatal exposure to alcohol, is linked to a range of cognitive, motor, social, and emotional challenges in multiple domains. Research has commonly focused on risk and adversity among individuals with the condition, while less emphasis has been placed on identifying supports and practices associated with enhanced health and well-being. There has also been a lack of population-level studies of youth with FASD. An aim of the current study was to address these gaps by focusing on the experiences of youth (ages 12–19) with FASD, using data from a population-level youth health survey (n = 38,488 overall). Findings indicated that youth with FASD (n = 218) were more likely than those without the condition to experience school challenges; victimization (e.g., abuse, bullying); involvement in the child welfare system and youth justice; and poorer health and well-being. However, supports and protective factors were also identified among youth with FASD that increased their odds of positive health and well-being (including self-confidence, life satisfaction, and hopefulness). These included having adults who helped them with various tasks (e.g., learning life-skills and making/getting to appointments); a caring and safe school environment; caring adults in the community (outside of the family and school); feeling they had a voice in their activities; and spending time in nature. Findings suggest that while youth with FASD experience challenges, offering them integrated supports in multiple domains, and ensuring they have input into decisions that affect them, can contribute to their healthy development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108736"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145791067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Between promise and practice: a scoping review of the democratic outcomes of youth participation in local governance","authors":"Flávio Ramos ,&nbsp;António F. Tavares ,&nbsp;Nuno F. da Cruz","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108738","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108738","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Youth participation in governance is widely endorsed by international institutions and scholars alike, yet its democratic outcomes remain poorly understood. This article presents a scoping review of 48 empirical studies on youth participation in local governance across 24 countries, using a structured framework to analyse individual, community, and government-level outcomes. The analysis identifies a range of rationales behind youth participation, including normative (e.g., upholding rights), instrumental (e.g., policy improvement), and substantive (e.g., competence development, civic participation, and empowerment) rationales, which often overlap within individual studies. Most studies report both positive and negative outcomes, underscoring how the design of participatory processes shapes both experiences and impacts. Rather than treating participation as an inherently democratic good, the article advocates for a closer examination of institutional design logics, gatekeeping dynamics, and the conditional nature of positive outcomes. In doing so, it contributes to the literature on democratic innovation and public governance and opens new directions for theory-building and comparative research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108738"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145791068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The power of digital and traditional cultural capital: unpacking the association between family material deprivation and academic performance in eight countries","authors":"Chaoxin Jiang ,&nbsp;Guowei Wan ,&nbsp;Shimei Shi ,&nbsp;Yimin Zhi ,&nbsp;Zhiyou Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108747","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108747","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the mechanisms through which family material deprivation influences children’s academic performance, with particular emphasis on the mediating roles of traditional and digital cultural capital. Grounded in Bourdieu’s theories of capital conversion and cultural reproduction, the study conceptualizes cultural capital in both traditional and digital dimensions to offer an integrated framework for understanding educational inequality in the digital age. Drawing on cross-national survey data from eight countries, we employ multiple mediation analysis to test three hypotheses: (1) family material deprivation is negatively associated with academic performance; (2) traditional cultural capital mediates this association; and (3) digital cultural capital mediates this association. Importantly, the mediating effect of digital cultural capital surpasses that of its traditional counterpart, underscoring the increasing salience of digital resources in contemporary learning environments. These results advance a more nuanced understanding of educational inequality and highlight the need for child-centered policies and interventions that enhance access to cultural capital in both material and digital domains.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108747"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145883982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From frontline observations to experimental analysis: a reverse translational investigation of staff behavior in residential care settings","authors":"Ashley N. Anderson,&nbsp;John T. Rapp,&nbsp;Ellie Morosohk","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108722","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108722","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Most adolescent residential facilities aim to provide a supportive and therapeutic environment; however, researchers and clinicians across disciplines acknowledge that these efforts can sometimes fall short. In the following experiments, we leveraged a translational approach to investigate the nuances of discrete staff-to-resident interactions we detected through direct observations in one residential facility. Understanding how staff respond to residents’ behaviors may offer valuable insights for enhancing staff support and improving interventions. Experiment 1 tested how simulated pre-shift events affected participants responses to resident behavior. Emotion induction did not alter responding, but exposure to problem behavior impacted later responses. Experiment 2 replicated the first study without emotion induction. As with Experiment 1, results indicated prior exposure to problem behavior impacted subsequent responding. Lastly, Experiment 3 introduced two residents to the same simulation. Experiment 3 suggested that responding to one resident’s problem behavior did not increase fines for the second resident’s problem behavior but it increased rewards for the second resident’s appropriate behavior. We discuss implications and next steps in this process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108722"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond traditional models: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to rural teen mental health","authors":"Erin M. Knight ,&nbsp;Charlotte E. Bausha ,&nbsp;Karen L. Fortuna ,&nbsp;Julie Balaban ,&nbsp;Christopher M. Tirrell ,&nbsp;Courtney Porter ,&nbsp;Amanda N. Perry ,&nbsp;M. Kay Jankowski","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108702","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108702","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>The percentage of teens experiencing mental health difficulties has grown significantly in recent years, particularly in rural areas. This study explored upstream approaches using human-centered design to consider nontraditional methods for addressing mild to moderate teen mental health needs in a rural setting.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The study took place in a rural New England region, and used purposive sampling to interview 39 participants, including teenagers (ages 13–18), parents, and community professionals. Semi-structured interviews, informed by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, explored mental health needs, service availability, and barriers. Data analysis involved thematic coding in Dedoose, using a mixed inductive-deductive approach to identify key trends and insights.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Participants identified internal (e.g. anxiety, depression) and externally derived (e.g. academic pressure, relationship difficulties, substance use) contributors to teen mental health challenges. While groups were aware of formal (e.g. counseling, school-based resources) and informal (e.g. trusted adults, online tools, community programs) support, service availability, financial constraints, and resource navigation challenges were common barriers to accessing support. Opinions on the role of stigma were mixed. Desired improvements included expanding mental health education, increasing access to school and community-based services, addressing social media’s influence, and enhancing support from caregivers and through cross-sector collaboration.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Findings illustrate the need for innovative, community-specific strategies to address teen mental health challenges. Collaborative approaches that integrate mental health services into primary care and education systems can create long-term change. Policymakers, providers, and trusted adults can create a more supportive environment for teens in rural communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108702"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145738167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family support in Europe: theory, policy and practice","authors":"Lucía Jiménez,&nbsp;John Canavan","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108716","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108716","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This special issue, <em>Family Support in Europe: Theory, Policy and Practice</em>, brings together contributions from the European Family Support Network (EurofamNet), a bottom-up and multidisciplinary initiative that connects researchers, practitioners, policymakers, children and family representatives across Europe to strengthen evidence-informed family support. Building on EurofamNet’s collaborative work, the collection examines development on key challenges currently shaping the field, such as mapping policies and provision at national and EU levels, developing shared conceptual frameworks, promoting quality standards and evidence-based programmes and tools, identifying the core competencies of the family support workforce, and improving the dissemination of knowledge to bridge research, policy and practice.</div><div>Across the papers, common trends and contextual differences emerge in how family support is conceptualised, implemented and evaluated. The studies highlight persistent gaps between policy aspirations and practice realities, and together offer valuable insights into the ongoing efforts to enhance quality, responsiveness and inclusiveness in family support across Europe. Taken together, these contributions outline a vision of family support that is collaborative, grounded in evidence, and committed to social justice. They also show that advancing this vision requires both local responsiveness and European cooperation, an ongoing dialogue that EurofamNet continues to foster in its mission to inform family support policy and practice across Europe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108716"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145926382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prevalence and correlates of truancy in the United States post-covid-19: results from a national sample","authors":"Michael G. Vaughn ,&nbsp;Jun-Hong Chen ,&nbsp;Brandy R. Maynard ,&nbsp;Yohita Shraddha Bandaru ,&nbsp;Abigail Schweiger","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108735","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108735","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Truancy has long been considered a common problem, and COVID-19 has likely increased rates. Knowledge about factors associated with truancy can guide the development and implementation of developmentally appropriate scaffolds. This paper examined the prevalence and correlates in truancy for 2022 and 2023 using data from a large national sample of adolescents (age = 12–17 years). We estimated truancy prevalence and examined correlates via weighted regression analyses. The overall prevalence of truancy was 23.4 % and 25.7 % in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Multinomial regression analyses revealed that, in addition to externalizing behaviors (e.g., fighting, carrying a handgun, selling drugs, stealing, dangerous behaviors, and substance use) being significantly associated with increased risk of truancy, school (e.g., liking school, meaningfulness and interest in school, being supported by teachers, grades, and participation in school activities) and parental engagement (e.g., checking homework, providing positive reinforcement, and monitoring and supervision) factors were at lower likelihoods of endorsement compared to non-truant youth. Dramatic increases in truancy prevalence were observed compared to pre-pandemic levels. Attention to the details of truancy prevention implementation plans and strengthening the longitudinal evidence base are badly needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108735"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145840547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of family resilience in the context of built environment risk and adolescent depression","authors":"Yangjin Park ,&nbsp;Danielle R. Harrell ,&nbsp;Bethany Wood ,&nbsp;Keundeok Park","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108696","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108696","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Guided by the built environment and mental health framework and the family resilience theory, this study examined the promotive and protective role of family resilience on the associations between neighborhood, school, and racial discrimination risk factors on adolescent depression.</div></div><div><h3>Background</h3><div>One-third of adolescents are at risk of depression. As adolescents spend more time outside the family environment, their neighborhood and school become their primary spheres of interaction, yet family influence remains significant. However, it is unclear to what extent family resilience buffers risk factors experienced outside the family context, particularly neighborhood and school.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Using the National Survey of Children’s Health, our study sample (<em>n</em> = 81,809) incorporated multi-year data from 2016 to 2020<!--> <!-->adolescents between 11–17 years of age. A hierarchical logistic regression model was run for the main effect and interaction models.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Controlling for family-related risks, neighborhood violence/safety, lack of school engagement, lack of school safety, and racial discrimination increased the odds of adolescent depression, while family resilience decreased the odds of depression. Further, family resilience alleviated the negative impact of lack of school engagement and racial discrimination on depression.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Family resilience alleviated the risks from lack of school engagement and racial discrimination, ultimately reducing adolescent depression. Since environmental conditions in school and neighborhood cannot be improved in a short period, increasing family resilience may be a possible intervention to reduce adolescent depression in the school context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108696"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145738163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effectiveness of the integration of education, care and medicine (IECM) program on knowledge of parenting strategies for parents of infants and toddlers","authors":"Ting Liu ,&nbsp;Li Ang Xie ,&nbsp;Chang Jiang Yang ,&nbsp;Nan Ding ,&nbsp;Zhi Hong Zuo","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108742","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108742","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Integration of Education, Care and Medicine (IECM), an intervention program designed for parents of children aged from birth to three years old. A total of 218 Chinese parents participated, comprising both an intervention group (n = 102) and a control group (n = 116). The measure used was the Knowledge of Parenting Strategies for Infants and Toddlers (KPS-IT) scale to assess parenting knowledge across six domains of young child development. The results demonstrate that the IECM had positive effects on parenting knowledge, with domain-specific variations in improvement magnitude: The motor development domain exhibited the most pronounced gains, followed by the disease prevention domain, while the social-emotional development domain showed the least improvement. Additionally, parental education and child’s age were found to have a significant impact on the intervention outcome. The findings reveal that the IECM program provides particularly significant benefit for parents of children aged 0–1 years old and those with lower levels of educational attainment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 108742"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145883985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}