Poster Presentations | 2026 TRC Summit
Uncontained: How anxiety and ideology can shape the workforce and development of the Children's Homes sector
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Presenter: Steve Percival, Dialogue.
Dan Hope, Dialogue.
John Woodhouse, Dialogue
England
The Ladder Approach: Transforming Children’s Residential Care
Measuring Systems Change and Quality Improvement through Statewide Investments in Therapeutic Residential Care
Presenters: Paul Lanier, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Layne Wetherbee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States
Quality Before Care Entry: Conceptualising Risk Assessment and Decision-Making for Vulnerable Children in China
Visualizing Quality: Using Statistical Process Control Charts for Systematic Improvement in Residential Care
Presenter: Elliott G. Smith, Residential Child Care Project at Cornell University
United States
Deciding with care: Quality starts before placement. An ecological reflective tool for matching children and residential units.
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Presenters: Chiara Monti, Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna
Prof Laura Palareti, Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna
Italy
Creating a Holding Environment
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Presenters: Dr. Laura Steckley, University of Strathclyde, Department of Social Work and Social Policy.
Dr. Cecile Remy, University of Strathclyde, Department of Social Work and Social Policy.
Scotland
Care Leavers and the Criminal Justice System: The Role of Support Systems during Transition
How Children Are Cared for to Make Them Care About Something in Residential Child Care (CareAbout)
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Presenters: Dr. Katharina Freres, University of Kassel.
Dr. Vinzenz Thalheim, University of Kassel.
Prof. Mark Schrödter, University of Kassel.
Germany
Love as a Quality Framework
Examining human-animal relationships in foster homes in the United States: what are the benefits and the challenges for children and animals?
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Presenter: Mary Elizabeth Rauktis, University of Pittsburgh school of social work.
United States
Our Way Home: Co-designing Quality in Residential and Out-of-Home Care by Centring Children and Shared Care
Professionals’ Empathy Toward Youth in Residential Youth Care: A Scoping Review
Presenters: Neve Oprins, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Dr. Lysbert Zeinstra, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Netherlands
Professionalizing the Practitioner: Ensuring Stable Therapeutic Environments for Children and Youth
Michele Boguslofski Poster for International Summit 2026Presenter: Michele Boguslofski, Teaching Family Association.
United States
Samantha Dennis, Youth and Family Program Manager for Dunlea Centre
Australia
Relational Learning Behind Bars: Peer Mentorship in Juvenile Correctional Centres in Ghana
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Presenter: Dr. Lilian Ayete-Nyampong, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (retired on April 14, 2026, from this institution)
Ghana
Co-creating insights into professionals’ empathy toward youth in residential youth care
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Presenters: Dr. Lysbert Zeinstra, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Neve Oprins, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Netherlands
Enhancing the emotional security of pupils in the classroom: a case study of a therapeutic residential special school
Quality of Caregiver–Child Interaction and Social-Emotional Competence of Children Living in Residential Care: The Case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Challenging Dominant Narratives: Provider Type and Quality in Scottish Residential Child Care
The street within the institution: legitimacy, power relations and agency among young people with experience of residential care and youth justice institutions in Chile (SENAME)
Loving Children in Children’s Homes – From Policy Aspiration to Everyday Practice
Navigating dysfunction: Commissioner and provider accounts of England's children's residential care market
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Presenter: Dr. Isabelle Kelly, The Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
England
The International Use of the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Assessment
Presenter: Prof. John Lyons, University of Chicago.
Mark Lardner, University of Chicago.
United States
First Impacts of the Implementation of the CARE Model in Spain
Empowering Safe, stable, Loving homes, A whole system framework for measuring Quality in Residential Childcare
From Care to Independence: An Evaluation of Transition Support Services Offered to Care Leavers in Uganda
Raising the bar for staff, for children
Rights-Based Advocacy: A Critical Tool for Improving Children's Experiences in Residential Care - Academic Poster
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Measuring what matters: learning from 20,000 uses of BERRI for children in care in the UK
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Presenters: Dr Miriam Silver
“Monitoring what matters”: Validating measures for adolescents in residential care for research and everyday practice
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Presenters: Pia K Eriksson
“We could write you a book”: Co-producing a Staff Handbook from the Lived Experience of Young People in Inpatient Care
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Presenters: Clarise Pattison
Measuring Systems Change and Quality Improvement through Statewide Investments in Therapeutic Residential Care
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Presenters: Paul Lanier, PhD, MSW
Layne Wetherbee,
Monica Landers, PhD,
Hanaleah Hoberman