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out-of-home care (OOHC) trauma-informed practice

Practitioners’ views on training and systemic barriers to deal with child sexual exploitation in residential care

CSE, FVSV, out-of-home care (OOHC)
2025

Research indicates major gaps about multiple important domains of professional practice and systemic responses to Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE).

Multiraciality and intersectionality: an Asian-centered exploration of out-of-home care

culturally responsive practice, multicultural, out-of-home care (OOHC)
2025

This study examines the nuanced pathways and disparities in foster care entries and outcomes for Asian American children.

Reinvolvement after returning home: A systematic review of the factors associated with post-reunification child protection involvement

out-of-home care (OOHC), system improvement
2025

This review finds that child, family and system-level factors, like disability, poverty, trauma, and caseworker practices, contribute to child protection reinvolvement after OOHC reunification. It calls for improved assessments and interventions.

Young mothers with experience of out-of-home care and intergenerational risk of child removal

child protection, out-of-home care (OOHC)
2025

The current study aims to examine the prevalence of births and risk of child removal in young females with experience of OOHC.

Improving outcomes for young people transitioning from out-of-home care in Victoria

out-of-home care (OOHC), young people
2025

The report finds OOHC transition planning often fails to meet young people’s needs. It calls for youth-led, culturally safe planning and stronger post-care support.

Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally responsive practice, multicultural, out-of-home care (OOHC)
2025

This study explores Aboriginal community-led approaches to child reunification in New South Wales. The research found that successful reunification requires culturally grounded, holistic support tailored to statutory orders.

“Your culture is in you”: Cultural identity and connection for children from culturally diverse backgrounds in care: A scoping review of child perspectives

culturally responsive practice, multicultural, out-of-home care (OOHC)
2025

This scoping review examines how children from culturally diverse backgrounds in out-of-home care experience cultural identity and connection.

Breaking the Silence: Centering Multicultural Youth Voices in Family Violence Practice

CEDV, FVSV, multicultural, trauma-informed practice, young people
2025

CMY is currently helping practitioners to break the silence through our new Centering Multicultural Youth Voices in Family Violence Training. This limited-time training is youth informed and designed specifically for FV practitioners.

Walking with families: Supporting families living with care experienced children’s challenging, violent and aggressive behaviour

adolescent violence, out-of-home care (OOHC)
2025

In 2024 Al Coates was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study how other contexts, countries and cultures support families of care experienced children who are living with challenging, aggressive or violent behaviour. These are his findings.

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