A team of professional researchers and young care leavers mapped the region to meet care experienced people engaged in improving alternative care in Latin America and the Caribbean and learn from their activism. They interviewed more than 60 care-experienced activists from 19 countries. On October 27 at 15.30 (EST) they will present the results of these efforts and dialogue with young activists to hear their recommendations to strengthen the participation of children, adolescents and youth in the issues that affect them.
This webinar will explore the importance of making the investment case for the social service workforce and how the new guidance on ratios and costing can be used to build that case.
This webinar will examine how a well-developed and qualified social service workforce working in and linked to health facilities can help countries to tackle social and other determinants of health. Using findings from their latest technical paper, the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance will explore the different roles, functions and practice models for deploying the social service workforce in health facilities and the related influence on health outcomes and costs. Country-level speakers will discuss promising practice models for effective deployment of social service workers in health facilities and the challenges and opportunities that come with them.
Learn how to use the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) to improve the quality and accountability of children’s protection in humanitarian settings in this new free mini course.
The purpose of this event series is to bring care-experienced people and supporters from all over the world together to connect, expand and create new ideas for change.
Join Family for Every Child's second in their series of three webinars focusing on mental health. Four Family for Every Child member organisations will share their experiences and perspectives, building on discussions from their last webinar.
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.
Research in Practice and CoramBAAF are working together to host an open access online event about the recommendations of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care for kinship care and how to support practitioners unlock the potential of family networks. The event will cover current issues relating to kinship care, the recommendations relating to kinship care that are in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, practical ways to involve family networks, recent research and ways practitioners can improve practice and experience of kinship carers right now.
The Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children will present for the first time ever her General Assembly Report to Children.
Family for Every Child invites you to participate, share your views and listen to children and young people on this topic. Join this event and be part of a global call to action to protect children from family violence.