Catholic Relief Services is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Senior Technical Advisor, Household Economic Strengthening to provide technical assistance supporting 4Children program design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.  

Building on his successful and popular courses on systematic reviews in a wide variety of settings, Professor Mike Clarke will lead this 1-day Evidence Aid course to place systematic reviews in the context of disasters and humanitarian aid.

This report explores ways for public agencies to ensure that children receive the care they need by enlisting more volunteers to step forward as foster parents and by encouraging the extraordinary individuals who have already answered the call to continue their commitment to care. The report identifies three major themes for engaging and empowering foster parents: ensuring quality caregiving for children; forging strong relationships; and, finding and keeping more amazing caregivers.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

Nova Scotia will be the only province that does not allow birth mothers and adult adopted children to obtain information about one another. 

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the sixteenth session (15 Aug 2016 – 2 Sep 2016) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

New Canadian child welfare law allows children to have a say in their care.

Chilean government reports that 865 children have died under the care of the National Service over the past 11 years.

The European Commission Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) commissioned SOS Children’s Villages International to undertake case studies of arrangements for ‘alternative child care’ in six non-European countries across three continents to help inform the EU’s future strategy for provision of support for children in countries outside Europe.  This report is a case study of one of the six countries, Ecuador.

The European Commission Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers commissioned SOS Children’s Villages International to undertake case studies of arrangements for ‘alternative child care’ in six non-European countries in three continents to help inform the EU’s future strategy for provision of support for children in countries outside Europe. This report is a case study of one of the six countries, Chile.