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Ukraine Response
This section includes resources, news and other key documents related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting Ukraine and surrounding countries. This section is updated daily.
CRC Day of General Discussion 2021
The overall purpose of the UNCRC Day of General Discussion is to examine broadly the current situation regarding alternative care in its complexity, identify and discuss particular areas of concern with regard to the unnecessary separation of children from their families and appropriate ways to respond to family and child separation in cases where it is unavoidable.
COVID-19 Resource Center
Resources on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to child protection and children's care.
Transforming Children's Care
Visit the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative, aimed at establishing more strategic sector-wide collaboration.
Transition Hub
Visit the resource hub on transforming systems of care, including the transitioning of institutional care services.
Browse the Practitioner Hub
Explore the Practitioner Hub, an online library containing practitioner-related resources organized around the components of the care system.
See a guidance document on how to apply international standards when working with children and their families impacted by the crisis in Ukraine, a UNICEF/CTWWC report broadening our understanding of the nature and characteristics of Kafalah in Eastern and Southern Africa, a toolkit for participatory evaluation of practice drawing on the strength of local solutions and much more.
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is developing a draft law on the introduction of professional foster families, which would mean all orphans and children left without parental care will be placed in foster care immediately.
This interagency document is open to endorsement by organizations, networks and agencies and we hope that you will consider adding your name to it and use it in your work and advocacy on behalf of children’s rights in Ukraine.
Families Together is a parenting curriculum for families who have a child reintegrating into the home. The program is an adapted version of the Skillful Parenting Programme, designed and delivered in Kenya by Investing in Children and their Societies (ICS).
The purpose of this webinar was to launch the tool, provide background information on its development, the analysis that underpins it, and conduct a virtual walk through of the tool.
El propósito de este seminario web fue lanzar la herramienta, proporcionar información de antecedentes sobre su desarrollo, el análisis que la sustenta y realizar un recorrido virtual por la herramienta.