Americas

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Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University,

This webpage from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University lists some simple, free activities to help support a child’s healthy development during the COVID-19 crisis.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control,

These additional considerations are intended to provide guidance for a range of child care programs that remain open, and should be used in conjunction with CDC’s guidance for administrators of child care programs and K-12 schools.

Save the Children US,

This resource from Save the Children US features tools and tips for parents, caregivers, teachers and all those who care about children in crisis.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network,

This resource from the U.S. National Child Traumatic Stress Network will help you think about how an infectious disease outbreak might affect your family—both physically and emotionally—and what you can do to help your family cope.

Reilly Frye - Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology,

This Comment will propose a theoretical international criminal law response to the family separation that occurred in summer 2018.

Amy Bombay, Robyn J. McQuaid, Janelle Young, Vandna Sinha, Vanessa Currie, Hymie Anisman, and Kim Matheson - First Peoples Child & Family Review,

Through an online study, the authors of this paper explored the links between familial (parents/grandparents) Indian Residential School (IRS) attendance and subsequent involvement in the child welfare system (CWS) in a non-representative sample of Indigenous adults in Canada born during the Sixties Scoop era.

RELAF,

This call to public authorities presents recommendations from RELAF for preventing family separation and implementing adequate care and protection measures to protect children’s rights put at risk by the pandemic and its implications.

Be Strong Families,

This webpage from Be Strong Families features resources for families during the COVID-19 crisis.

The Center for the Study of Social Policy,

In this statement on the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Center for the Study of Social Policy calls for more support for those who are likely to be hurt most by the current crisis, particularly low-income families.

Sistovaris, M., Fallon, B., Miller, S., Birken, C., Denburg, A., Jenkins, J., Levine, J., Mishna, F., Sokolowski, M. and Stewart, S. - Policy Bench, Fraser Mustard Institute of Human Development, University of Toronto,

This literature scan identifies and synthesizes existing literature examining the effects of pandemics and the identification of policy solutions to mitigate their effects on a well defined group of Canada’s population—children in the care of Canada’s child welfare system.