Family-Based Care

• Children, Orphanages, and Families: A Summary of Research to Help Guide Faith-Based Action – Faith to Action Initiative
• Families, Not Orphanages – Better Care Network
• Why Children Need Families – CAFO
• Family Matters: Growing up in Family-Based Care Makes a World of Difference – Bakermans-Kranenburg & van IJzendoorn
• Global Facts About Orphanages – Better Care Network
• Keeping Children out of Harmful Institutions: Why We Should be Investing in Family-Based Care – Save the Children
• What Does Transitioning to Family Care Mean? – CAFO
• Journeys of Faith Study Series – Faith to Action Initiative
• The Orphan Myth: Keeping Families Together – PBS Documentary
• Think Global, Do Justice Podcast

Volunteering & Short-Term Missions

• Short-Term Missions: Guidance to Support Orphans and Vulnerable Children – Faith to Action Initiative
• Protecting Children in Short Term Missions – ACCI
• The Business of Voluntourism – The Guardian
• Orphanage Volunteering: Why to Say No – Better Care Network
• Ethical Volunteering – Kinnected
• Short-term Missions and Volunteering: Safeguarding Orphans and Vulnerable Children – Homecoming Project
• Learning Service: The Essential Guide to Volunteering Abroad – Claire Bennett, Joseph Collins, Zahara Heckscher, & Daniela Papi-Thornton
• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…And Yourself – Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
• Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions – Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert

International Guidelines on Children

• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Convention on the Rights of the Child – The Children’s version
• UN Guidelines on Alternative Care of Children
• Recent UN Resolution

TBRI® & Trauma

• Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI): A Systemic Approach to Complex Developmental Trauma 
• The Healing Power of “Giving Voice”
• The Connected Child – Karyn Purvis & David Cross
• The Connected Parent – Karyn Purvis & Lisa Qualls
• The Whole Brain Child – Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
• The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
• Parenting from the Inside Out – Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell
• How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime – Dr. Nadine Burke Harris TED Talk