Family Group Conferencing to preserve Families and prevent Child Institutionalization

Karen Smith Rotabi, Richmond, Virginia (USA)

Helping families and their kin develop care plans for orphaned and vulnerable children was the objective of the family group conferencing (FGC) training that took place in Guatemala City from July 10-12, 2012. (more…)

Better Care Network Launches New Resource: Better Care Network Toolkit

Worldwide child care practitioners face increasing challenges in providing appropriate care and protection services to children, youth, and families. On the ground, childcare practitioners are often unable to access much-needed resources. (more…)

Guatemala City: Hunger Protests Amid Allegations of Child Kidnapping and Adoption Fraud

Karen Smith Rotabi, Richmond, Virginia (USA) 

At the end of July, 2009 a hunger strike ended after 15 days of protests over the alleged kidnappings of three daughters who are believed to be living in the USA with their adoptive families. (more…)

Searching Roots

Marie Špiláčková, Ostrava (Czech Republic)

This article deals with the history of social planning in Ostrava. It describes the development of social planning and methods of social work in the region of Ostrava in the 1970ies and 1980ies. (more…)

Between paternalism and indifference

Niels Rosendahl Jensen, Copenhagen (Denmark)

The approach of this article may be resumed in a statement: I have learned to be afraid of people who want to be good to other humans, and especially of people who know how other humans get happy. (more…)

Report on the International Conference “Preventive Social Work in Russia and Europe”

Olga Borodkina, Anna Smirnova and Yulia Victorova, St. Petersburg (Russia)

The Conference has been held in St. Petersburg (more…)

Equal Conditions in Adolescence

Sabine Andresen, Bielefeld (Germany

The poet Elisebeth Barrett Browning published a poem in 1844 called “The Cry of the Children” in which she discussed the question of socially disadvantaged children and justice in Manchester capitalism. (more…)