Honduras

This conference, hosted by Tearfund Ireland, will explore the topic of Care Reform and why volunteering in orphanages is changing. 

In Vancouver, Western Canada, 60 agencies and 20 youth from government care are working in partnership using a collective impact approach to address the systemic issues and barriers to healthy development that youth from care experience. This mixed-method evaluation included quantitative and qualitative data, collected through outcomes, diaries, surveys, and focus groups, to measure process and outcomes.

Trauma informed care (TIC) emphasizes the importance of professionals maintaining an emotionally regulated state. For this article, the authors interviewed eight staff members in a residential care unit for children and adolescents where TIC had been implemented, about situations wherein they experienced difficulty regulating their own emotions.

"The process of deinstitutionalization in Latvia is moving forward," says this article from Latvian Public Broadcasting. "The number of children in institutions has decreased three times over the past decade, the Ministry of Welfare (LM) told Latvian Radio May 12."

In this webinar, members of the International Parent Advocacy Network discussed parent advocacy and presented the literature review International Review of Parent Advocacy in Child Welfare: Strengthening Children's Care and Protection Through Parent Participation. The webinar included presentations from parent advocates who shared examples of parent advocacy in their contexts.

IFCO will be holding a Q&A event on the 12th of May for anyone who wants to learn more about the new PiCK: Europe (Pride in Care-Leavers Konnected Europe) project and help to complete the Expression of Interest form. 

The third session of the World Bank Group's ECD webinar series will focus on the Scaling Up Measurement in Early Childhood Initiative at the World Bank, which works to support countries to measure early childhood outcomes and the quality of early learning environments together while promoting the generation of globally-comparable reliable data.

In this webinar, the International Parent Advocacy Network will discuss the literature review 'International Review of Parent Advocacy in Child Welfare: Strengthening Children's Care and Protection Through Parent Participation.'

The third session of the World Bank's ECD webinar series will focus on the Scaling Up Measurement in Early Childhood Initiative at the World Bank, which works to support countries to measure early childhood outcomes and the quality of early learning environments together while promoting the generation of globally-comparable reliable data.

The International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC) is organizing a webinar to shed light on the emerging impact of COVID-19 on migrant and displaced boys and girls, using available albeit limited evidence.