TY - JOUR
T1 - Young People’s Voice: The First Visiting Advocacy Project in Italian Residential Care for Children
AU - Calcaterra, Valentina
AU - Raineri, Maria Luisa
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This article presents the research of the project Giving Young People a Voice: Advocacy in Children’s Homes, set up as a result of the interest of a nonprofit organization working with looked-after children, with an aim to improve advocacy as a listening process and to promote the participation of children that reside in children’s homes. The research focused on the implementation of a visiting advocacy project and the activities carried out by an independent advocate working in children’s homes. The children’s evaluation of the project was collected by two focus groups; interviews were conducted with social care workers and the manager of the organization. This research deals with the implementation of the first visiting advocacy project in the context of the Italian child protection system.
AB - This article presents the research of the project Giving Young People a Voice: Advocacy in Children’s Homes, set up as a result of the interest of a nonprofit organization working with looked-after children, with an aim to improve advocacy as a listening process and to promote the participation of children that reside in children’s homes. The research focused on the implementation of a visiting advocacy project and the activities carried out by an independent advocate working in children’s homes. The children’s evaluation of the project was collected by two focus groups; interviews were conducted with social care workers and the manager of the organization. This research deals with the implementation of the first visiting advocacy project in the context of the Italian child protection system.
KW - advocacy for children
KW - child protection
KW - children's home
KW - looked after children
KW - visiting advocacy
KW - advocacy for children
KW - child protection
KW - children's home
KW - looked after children
KW - visiting advocacy
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/104874
U2 - 10.15388/STEPP.2017.15.10808
DO - 10.15388/STEPP.2017.15.10808
M3 - Article
SN - 2345-0266
VL - 2017
SP - 44
EP - 55
JO - STEPP: SOCIALINE TEORIJA, EMPIRIJA, POLITIKA IR PRAKTIKA
JF - STEPP: SOCIALINE TEORIJA, EMPIRIJA, POLITIKA IR PRAKTIKA
ER -