The 2025 CAFO Research Symposium brings leading experts together to illuminate the science and Scriptural truths behind resilience, including the individual, family, and organizational factors that equip children to navigate and overcome adversity. With a special emphasis on practical applications for children and youth separated from parental care - whether in foster homes, adoptive families, residential care, or other alternative care settings - this dynamic gathering will transform scholarly insights into actionable strategies for nurturing strength and healing.

The Disability Inclusive Child Protection Systems Strengthening Resource (DI-CPSS) is a practical guide for improving disability inclusion in child protection systems within the framework of the UNICEF child protection systems strengthening (CPSS) approach.

The Global Kinship Care Week 2025 (GKCW 2025) will run from 6-12 October.

In The Empowerment Shift, Emmanuel "Nabs" Nabieu—who once grew up in an orphanage himself—offers a clear, practical roadmap for transforming how we care for vulnerable children.

The Good Start Challenge is a €2.6 million global challenge to advance innovative solutions that improve the wellbeing of parents and caregivers of young children in disadvantaged circumstances in Indonesia, the Philippines, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Senegal, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.

In September 2025, we begin a new edition of the Mutual Learning Program (the seventh already!).

The 2024 Global Ministerial Conference marked a historic milestone, generating over 370 pledges from more than 100 member states to end violence against children.

This working paper by Joan Lombardi, senior advisor to the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, and Lauren Simmons provides a brief overview of the risks and potential of early childhood and the changing climate and showcases a dozen innovative approaches where early childhood and climate sectors have successfully converged.

This article reviews the political factors shaping orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) care systems in low-income countries, highlighting weak governance, limited political commitment, and heavy dependence on external actors. It introduces a social science–based framework of eight key factors—spanning policymaking, governance, and context—to guide research and strengthen OVC care systems.

Join RIADIS and SPOON for a webinar discussing the role of nutrition and feeding practices in promoting the rights of children with disabilities.