This webinar will provide an overview of the issue, with lessons learned from past emergency contexts, current data on the prevalence of violence against children, presentation of guides and strategies to promote the protection of children and country presentations on strategies being currently implemented. 

Develop an understanding of some of the approaches involved in caring for vulnerable children, with this free online course.

In this webinar, Barbara Fallon of the University of Toronto and Delphine Collin-Vezina of McGill University will share information from the new University of Toronto Policy Bench report, Child Welfare and Pandemics Literature Scan (Sistovaris et al., 2020), including current knowledge of child welfare and pandemics, the impact on children in the Canadian child welfare system, potential policy solutions that could mitigate the detrimental effects of pandemics, and the measures taken to control the spread of disease.

The Alliance of Child Protection in Humanitarian Action with UNHCR will be hosting a webinar to explore the key considerations for adapting child protection responses in refugee settings to the current pandemic, including broader protection considerations. 

This webinar will bring together key global agencies including WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, LEGO Foundation, ARNEC and other partners, to provide a briefing on resources and actions being mobilized by each agency in response to COVID-19 and more.

Sharing Ideas that Strengthen Families and Engage Communities to Promote Child Well-Being will bring together policy, research, and practice professionals from child- and family-serving systems in the United States and other countries, as well as youth, caregivers, and community partners, to share and advance more effective family supports and systems of care for children and families in the 21st century.

COVID-19 is quickly changing the context in which children live. Prevention and control measures such as school closures (as announced or implemented in 100 countries) disrupt children’s routine and support structures.

The U.S. National Family Support Network is holding a Certification Training on the nationally-adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support on 13 March 2020 in New York, NY, USA.

In this webinar, colleagues from WHO will introduce the guideline on improving early childhood development, discuss the relevance of the recommendations for national policy making, and engage in dialogue on how to facilitate the dissemination and uptake of the guideline in countries.

RELAF will be holding its 2020 international seminar in Mexico on 11 and 12 March 2020.