New analysis indicates lost contribution to economies due to mental disorders among young people is nearly $390 billion a year worldwide, stressed a UNICEF’s news release.

This webinar, the fifth in the Transforming Children's Care Webinar Series focused on a new study ('Impact of COVID-19 on Privately Run Residential Care Institutions: Insights and Implications for Advocacy and Awareness Raising'). The study, comprising 21 semi-structured interviews across seven focus countries, explores the effect of COVID-19 on a small number of privately run and funded residential care institutions.

As Indonesia’s COVID-19 death toll rises, too many young children are learning the despair of losing their parents.

These presentations from UNICEF and Alternative Care Thailand were delivered during the July 9, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was on care measurement initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa and Thailand.

การศึกษาสถานการณ์การเลี้ยงดูทดแทนเด็ก (อพยพโยกย้ายถิ่นฐาน) ในพื้นที่อ. สังขละบุรี จ. กาญจนบุรี อาจารย์คณะสังคมศาสตร์ ม.มหิดล ร่วมกับมูลนิธิวันสกาย ทีมวิจัยได้ศึกษาสถานการณ์การเลี้ยงดูทดแทนในสถานรองรับในรูปแบบต่างๆ ไม่ว่าจะเป็นสถานสงเคราะห์เอกชน รร.ประจำ (สงเคราะห์) และวัด รวมทั้งการเลี้ยงดูทดแทนโดยเครือญาติ ผลของการศึกษาและข้อเสนอแนะ นำเสนอสู่กรมกิจการเด็กและเยาวชน และสำนักงานพัฒนาสังคมและความมั่นคงของมนุษย์ จ.กาญจนบุรี เพื่อดำเนินการการเลี้ยงดูทดแทนให้มีประสิทธิภาพและประสิทธิผลต่อไป

This review was conducted in different forms of institutional care: private residential care, (charity) boarding schools, and temple as well as (informal) kinship care. The findings and recommendations were presented to the Thailand Provincial Social Development and Human Security Office and the Department of Children and Youth to further develop an alternative care road map and plan of action.

Richard Daschbach, a now-defrocked 84-year-old US priest has been charged with sexual abuse of 14 girls in the shelter he ran in Timor-Leste. This article tells the story of one of the young women who spoke out about the abuse she experienced.

Families First Project is a program initiated by Save the Children in Indonesia in collaboration with the Indonesian Government to promote a safe family environment for raising and caring for children, either in their own families or in family and community-based care alternatives.

The Goal of the Prakas is to ensure the best interests of the child and protect the basic rights of the child separated from his/her biological parents and receiving kinship or foster care, so that they are safe and thriving in a warm, loving and happy family environment.

This Prakas was drafted in accordance with Cambodia’s policies, standards and regulations to enable the implementation of kinship care and foster care. The Goal of the Prakas is to ensure the best interests of the child and protect the basic rights of the child separated from his/her biological parents and receiving kinship or foster care, so that they are safe and thriving in a warm, loving and happy family environment.