Webinars and Events on COVID-19 Response

ICB - Udayan Care, Sep 17

The next issue of the Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond journal will be published in September. The new issue will address the underlying psychological conditions of caregivers amid pandemic outbreak, their strategies to deal with it and their recommendations that policy makers can take cognisance of.

Join a webinar to discuss these and other issues raised in the latest issue on September 17 from 5.00 - 6.30 pm.

The Kemp Center, ISS-USA, Oct 04

In 2020 the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on health disparities, poverty, and societal inequities. Meanwhile global protests awakened our collective and universal consciousness of systemic and institutional racism. In response, The Kempe Center launched A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Conference to raise the collective consciousness of the impact of poverty, racism, oppression, othering, and inequality on the lives of children and families in child welfare systems.

Georgetown University, Nov 30

This panel will discuss coronavirus-associated caregiver loss and the work being done by the international community, the U.S. government, and faith-based actors to support vulnerable children and turn the tide toward better care. It will be moderated by Gillian Huebner, executive director of the Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues.

International Center for Evidence in Disability, Mar 14

Date: 14 - 17 March 2022

Time: 10:00 - 12:00 (Date and time zone is UK)

Social Work Innovation Research Living Space, Oct 05

This public event, presented by the Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research (CSWIR) at the University of Sussex in the UK and the Social Work Innovation Research Living Space (SWIRLS) at Flinders University in South Australia, will be an ‘in conversation with’ style event, where academics, and practitioners will discuss how practice has adapted to the heightened sense of uncertainty engendered by the pandemic in everyday child protection social work. The unique perspectives of social work practitioners and managers from Australian and UK practice contexts will be brought together in conversation with academic colleagues from SWIRLS and CSWIR.

Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues, Brookings Institution, University of Virginia's Humanitarian Collaborative, Mar 19

A Book Launch Event Examining Innovations and Lessons from the Global South