Child Development and COVID-19

This section includes resources for promoting nurturing care and positive development for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources include those that offer guidance for parents and caregivers who are caring for children during lockdowns and quarantines who do not have access to schools and other services.

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UNICEF and WFP,

This two-page brief outlines the UNICEF-WFP partnership's two-pronged strategy to respond to the immediate and medium-term needs to prevent and treat child wasting during and after COVID-19.

Inter-Agency Standing Committee,

This book was a project developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (IASC MHPSS RG). This is a story developed for and by children around the world on how to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN),

This webinar brought together key global agencies including WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, LEGO Foundation, ARNEC and other partners to discuss early childhood development during the COVID-19 crisis.

Family Rights Group,

This guide aims to help parents and families of children who are looked after in the care system. The guide also provides information for families whose children have been adopted.

UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, WHO,

This joint note aims to consolidate the current recommendations on Infant and Young Child Feeding in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa.

Lucie Cluver, Jamie M Lachman, Lorraine Sherr, Inge Wessels, Etienne Krug, Sabine Rakotomalala, et al. - The Lancet,

This correspondence from the Lancet describes the collection of open access online resources for parenting during COVID-19

Council for Exceptional Children,

In this webinar, veteran online instructors help identify steps to move online and strategies for adapting the lessons already in motion to this new format. 

Generations United,

This factsheet from Generations United provides grandparents who are raising grandchildren with resources and information on how to stay healthy, informed and connected in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

SOS Children's Villages,

This brief article from SOS Children's Villages offers some tips on how parents can best address the topic of COVID-19 with their children.

Emily Boudreau, Elio Pajares - Harvard Graduate School of Education,

In this short video, Richard Weissbourd, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, shares ideas about how adults can talk to children about the coronavirus.