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A la luz de la pandemia de COVID19 y su impacto desproporcionado en las personas con discapacidad, la Alianza Internacional de Discapacidad (IDA) ha compilado la siguiente lista de las principales barreras que enfrentan las personas con discapacidad en esta situación de emergencia junto con algunas soluciones prácticas y recomendaciones.

In the light of the COVID19 pandemic and its disproportionate impact on persons with disabilities, the International Disability Alliance (IDA) has compiled the following list of the main barriers that persons with disabilities face in this emergency situation along with some practical solutions and recommendations.

In this segment for National Public Radio (NPR), a parent of a child in foster care and several child welfare professionals describe how they are navigating in-person visits, emergency removals and foster placements in the time of the COVD-19 pandemic.

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change offers suggestions for how children in foster care can remain connected with their families during the COVID-19 pandemic when social distancing is required and in-person meetings are not safe to conduct.

The considerations presented in this document have been developed by the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Use as a series of messages that can be used in communications to support mental and psychosocial well-being in different target groups, including carers of children, during the outbreak.

This study aimed to examine characteristic and outcome of mothers and babies focusing on the teen-mothers and their existing risk-behaviors, also to evaluate factors associated with subsequent foster care placements of their infants.

This article from the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Administration for Children and Families provides information and resources on the COVID-19 crisis for child welfare workers, children involved in the child welfare system, foster care providers, and more.

This tipsheet serves as guidance to help field teams think through different ways to mitigate the spread and impact of COVID-19 through ongoing cash and voucher assistance (CVA), inform the adaption of CVA programming in the context of COVID-19, and promote sensitivity to changing market dynamics and prices.

As part of a larger project on decision‐making at intake, this systematic review addressed the question of the factors associated with worker decisions to investigate alleged maltreatment referrals.

The current study seeks to explore clinicians' and parents' perspectives regarding the role of psychotherapy services (e.g. individual or conjoint counselling/therapy) for child welfare cases.