Family-level factors to reintegrate street-involved children in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review

Goodman, Michael L.; Gibson, Derrick C.; Baker, Larissa; Seidel, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104664

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“…Emotional support is also a critical component of an enabling environment that provides YPWH with a safe and supportive environment, access to youth-friendly health and social services, and linkage to the larger community and supports available to them (Chowa et al, 2023). A starting point for parents, caregivers, and relatives of YPWH is to create a home environment that is supportive, caring, and attentive to the emotional and mental health of YPWH (Goodman et al, 2020). In turn, a caring home environment may buffer the effect of stigma experiences on health and well-being and motivate YPWH to pursue desirable self-disclosure goals.…”

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The Association of Emotional Support, HIV Stigma, and Home Environment With Disclosure Efficacy and Perceived Disclosure Outcomes in Young People Living With HIV in Zambia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Masa,

Zimba,

Zimba

et al. 2023

J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care

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This study examined the association of various forms of social support, attitudes toward living at home, and HIV stigma experiences with HIV self-disclosure efficacy and perceived negative disclosure outcomes. We analyzed cross-sectional data from 120 young people with HIV (YPWH) aged 18–21 years receiving outpatient care in Eastern Province, Zambia. Perceived negative disclosure outcomes and disclosure self-efficacy were measured using an adapted version of the Adolescent HIV Disclosure Cognitions and Affect Scale. Explanatory variables included parental or caregiver support, emotional support, instrumental support, HIV stigma experiences, and attitudes toward living at home. Findings suggest that YPWH's confidence in their ability to self-disclose their HIV status and their assessment of negative outcomes associated with HIV disclosure are influenced by emotional support, experiences of HIV stigma, and the quality of the home environment.

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The Association of Emotional Support, HIV Stigma, and Home Environment With Disclosure Efficacy and Perceived Disclosure Outcomes in Young People Living With HIV in Zambia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Masa,

Zimba,

Zimba

et al. 2023

J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care

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“…Over the previous 6 years, through iterative action-reflection cycles with community members and leaders, we have developed a "scaffolding" approach to increase community-led development across sectors associated with increased risk of street migration among children (Mair, Wolf, & Seelos, 2016;Goodman et al, 2020).…”

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Flourishing communities: A new model to promote sustainable community leadership and transformation in semi‐rural Kenya

Goodman

Theron

Seidel³

et al. 2022

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Communities often face numerous challenges and opportunities—situations that may be reduced to specific domains by researchers, policy makers and interventionists. This study informs and animates a new “flourishing community” model that seeks to build collective capacity to respond to challenges and opportunities. Our work is a response to children living on the streets, whose families face myriad challenges. The Sustainable Development Goals make explicit the need for new, integrative models that acknowledge the interplay of challenges and opportunities within communities through the flow of everyday life. Flourishing communities are generative, supportive, resilient, compassionate, curious, responsive and self‐determined, and they build resources across economic, social, educational, and health domains. Integrating theoretical models—specifically, community‐led development, multi‐systemic resilience, and the “broaden and build” cycle of attachment—provides a testable framework to understand and explore hypothesised relationships between survey‐collected, cross‐sectional variables with 335 participants. Higher collective efficacy, a common byproduct of group‐based microlending activities, was correlated with higher sociopolitical control. This correlation was mediated by higher positive emotion, meaning in life, spirituality, curiosity, and compassion. Further research is required to understand replicability, cross‐sectoral impact, mechanisms of integrating health and development domains, and implementation challenges of the flourishing community model. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.

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“…Interventions must operate within their available scope of influence; within the communities of Meru County, Kenya, our intervention aims to address modifiable constructs and factors at two levels of the ecological model: (1) the children identified as living on the street and (2) the families of these children ( Goodman et al, 2020 ). Through iterative action-reflection cycles, we developed a “4R + P” model to support children living on streets of three sub-counties in Meru County, Kenya – Rescue, Rehabilitation, Reintegration, Resocialization, and Prevention ( Table 1 ).…”

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“…Finally, the KPJ/Flourishing Community model was developed to support families and communities from which SICY had left to live on streets. While the program shares features with other programs, we are unaware of any program integrating economic, social, health, and educational elements as does the KPJ program with the intention to support the reintegration of SICY ( Goodman et al, 2020 ). Whether family participation in the KPJ, or similar, program is associated with reintegration prospects has not been reported within sub-Saharan Africa or other low- or middle-income contexts.…”

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Enabling structural resilience of street-involved children and youth in Kenya: reintegration outcomes and the Flourishing Community model

Goodman,

Seidel,

Springer

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionMillions of children and youth live on city streets across the globe, vulnerable to substance use, abuse, material and structural neglect. Structural resilience, the re-establishment of access to structural goods within a society such as housing, education, and healthcare following some interruption, provides an orientation for research and interventional efforts with street-involved children and youth (SICY). Further, a structural resilience framework supports organizing interactions between levels and sectors of a socio-ecology.MethodsFollowing the expressed interests of Kenyan SICY, and consistent with emerging policy interests at national and global levels, we assess reintegration trajectories of Kenyan SICY (n = 227) participating in a new program intervention and model. The intervention combines two coordinated, parallel programs – one focused on the rescue, rehabilitation, reintegration and resocialization of SICY, and the other focused on empowering families and communities to provide better care for children and youth who are reintegrating from life on the streets to the broader community. Data were collected and analyzed from multiple stages across SICY involvement with the intervention.ResultsWe found 79% of SICY participants reintegrated with the broader community, and 50% reintegrated with families of origin and returned to school. Twenty-five percent of participants reintegrated to a boarding school, polytechnical school, or began a business. Probability of reintegrating successfully was significantly improved among participants whose families participated in the family- and community-oriented program, who were younger, with less street-exposure, expressed more personal interests, and desired to reintegrate with family.DiscussionTo our knowledge, these are the first quantitative data published of successful reintegration of SICY to the broader, non-institutionalized community in any low- or middle-income country. Future research should (1) identify factors across socio-ecological levels and sectors contributing to health and developmental outcomes of reintegrated children and youth, (2) mechanisms to support SICY for whom the interventional strategy did not work, (3) methods to prevent street-migration by children and youth, and (4) system development to coordinate follow-up and relevant investment by institutions, organizations and community leaders to continue reintegration work.

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Family-level factors to reintegrate street-involved children in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review

Cited by 13 publications

References 86 publications

The Association of Emotional Support, HIV Stigma, and Home Environment With Disclosure Efficacy and Perceived Disclosure Outcomes in Young People Living With HIV in Zambia: A Cross-Sectional Study

The Association of Emotional Support, HIV Stigma, and Home Environment With Disclosure Efficacy and Perceived Disclosure Outcomes in Young People Living With HIV in Zambia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Flourishing communities: A new model to promote sustainable community leadership and transformation in semi‐rural Kenya

Enabling structural resilience of street-involved children and youth in Kenya: reintegration outcomes and the Flourishing Community model

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