Research

Peer-reviewed research

Experiences of parental regret among Australian foster parents (2025)  by Damien W. Riggs, Shoshana Rosenberg and Stacy Blythe, Adoption & Fostering

Validating a Measure of Vicarious Trauma as Experience by Foster Carers (2025) by Damien W. Wiggs, Ben A. Lohmeyer, Shoshana Rosenberg, Yvonne Clark, Clemence Due, Child & Family Social Work

Foster carer experiences of vicarious trauma: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis (2025) by Sam Arthurson, Ben Lohmeyer, Damien W. Riggs, Children and Youth Services Review

‘The whole system is designed to create more trauma than it solves’: Australian foster and kinship carers navigating child protection systems (2025) by Damien W. Riggs, Ben Lohmeyer, Shoshana Rosenberg, Yvonne Clark, Clemence Due, Children and Youth Services Review

Allegations of abuse in care: The experience of South Australian foster carers (2025) by Damien W. Riggs and Shoshana Rosenberg,  Adoption & Fostering

‘But isn’t that normal?’: Australian foster parent’s experiences of parental abuse by children in their care (2025) by Damien W. Riggs, Ben Lohmeyer, Shoshana Rosenberg, Yvonne Clark, Clemence Due, The British Journal of Social Work

Exploring Stability Within Kinship Care From the Perspective of Kinship Carer Advocates, (2024) by Esther Rowlson and Fatin Shabbar Child and Family Social Work

Esther Rowlson interviewed our Carer Advocates and Project Officer in 2022 as part of her Honours thesis research. A chapter from her Honours thesis was recently published in the above-named peer-reviewed journal, which includes our perspectives on kinship care.

Grief and Loss: Supporting Foster Carer Families Through Placement Terminations (2024) by Margaret Kertesz, Australian Social Work

“There’s no disenfranchisement when you’re sitting in that room”: Evaluating a South Australian loss and grief support group for foster and kinship carers (2022) by Damien W. Riggs, Tandanya Allain, Liz Browne, Fiona Endacott, Amanda Quince, Children and Youth Services Review Journal

Dr Damian Riggs from Flinders University wrote the article regarding our Grief & Transition support group, with input from CF&KC-SA Carer Advocate Tandanya Allain, CEO Fiona Endacott, previous Senior Advocate Liz Browne and previous social work student Amanda Quince.

 

CF&KC-SA Adelaide University Intern research

The True Cost of Foster and Kinship Caring in South Australia (July 2021) by Emma Feagan

Keeping Aboriginal Children Connected to Culture (December 2021) by Anita Chaplin

Foster & Kinship Carers rights to review government decisions: jurisdictional tangles and unacceptable realities (December 2021) by Ruby Preece