%0 Journal Article
%T Implementing a Dynamic Street-ChildrenĄ¯s Program: Successes and Challenges
%A N Silungwe
%A C Bandawe
%J Malawi Medical Journal
%D 2011
%I 
%X The article has discusses the successes and challenges of implementing a dynamic street childrenĄ¯s program in Mzuzu Malawi ¨C using a developmental life-course framework blending psychodynamic approaches, risk-factor approaches, and strain and control theories of crime and delinquency. The framework has helped the programme implementation team consider not only the phase and stage of the childĄ¯s development in their provision of care, but also the influence that early childhood dynamics of parentchild, parent-parent and child-parent-environment; life-events; peers and neighbourhoods have at each of the developmental stages of child and adolescent  development, and how they can influence the childĄ¯s behaviour in both positive and negative ways. The article also discusses successes and suggests ways of addressing the identified challenges.
%U http://www.ajol.info/index.php/mmj/article/view/73638