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Joanna Wakia, Alexandra Safronova, Kelley Bunkers, Sully Santos and Beth Bradford ,

Cambiar la Forma en que Cuidamos (CTWWC, por sus siglas en inglés) es una iniciativa global que promueve un cuidado familiar seguro y afectuoso para los niños.

Timisha Dadhich & Ruchi Sinha,

This paper analyzes child rights in conflict, with a particular focus on the ongoing war in Ukraine, where children face heightened vulnerabilities to trafficking and exploitation. It identifies the key impacts of contemporary conflicts on children and the role of social workers in these contexts.

Beth Bradford, Parascovia Munteanu, Kelley Bunkers,
Beth Bradford, Parascovia Munteanu, Kelley Bunkers ,

The Moldova Transformation Guidance aims to support the transformation process of residential care facilities (RCF) to models that promote family support and community-based services, or to safely close them and redirect their resources. National and local authorities can use this guidance to design, plan, budget, communicate, and coordinate transformation at both individual and system levels.

Misiunea Socială Diaconia a Mitropoliei Basarabiei,

The publication summarizes lessons and good practices from the Community Engagement for Better Care pilot project implemented in four communities by Diaconia of the Bessarabian Orthodox Church in Moldova in 2024-2025. The project explored how faith communities - especially the Orthodox Church - can support children and families in need.

Pr. Ioan Cosoi, Misiunea Socială Diaconia a Mitropoliei Basarabiei,

This booklet of sermons, developed by Diaconia of the Bessarabian Orthodox Church in Moldova promotes solidarity-based communities where children and families thrive in safe and nurturing environments. It provides sermons for priests to emphasize child protection, family values, and community engagement.

Hurriyet Daily News,

The article reports that families of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia after the 2022 invasion are urgently calling for their return, saying that contact with many of the children has been cut off and that Russian authorities are ignorin

Leona Stašováh, Lucie Smutková, Jacqueline Garavito Lopez, et al.,

This article presents a comparative analysis of the Czech Republic and Colombia’s implementation of the United Nations Guidelines for Alternative Family Care. Based on secondary data, it identifies a shared adherence to the UN framework; a strong Czech system for alternative caregivers’ selection, training and support; a deep ethical commitment of Colombian foster families to ensure children’s well-being, despite limited resources; and the relevance of supporting parents at risk of having their children removed from their care and integrating the effects of unplanned migration into alternative care strategies.

Joanna Wakia, Alexandra Safronova, Kelley Bunkers, Sully Santos and Beth Bradford ,

Changing the Way We Care’s “Care System Strengthening Learning Synthesis: Evaluation Summary” distills lessons from care reform efforts in four countries, examining how change happened across laws, workforce, financing, monitoring, and services. It finds that evidence-based advocacy, strong government ownership, collaboration, and capacity-building were central to driving and sustaining reform across diverse contexts.

End Corporal Punishment,

This article reports that the Czech Republic has passed a law, signed in July 2025 and coming into effect on 1 January 2026, explicitly prohibiting all corporal punishment of children in every setting — home, school, day care, alternative care and