Disability Rights International (DRI) and the United States International Council on Disabilities (USCID) are organizing a COMMUNITY FORUM on US Foreign Policy and Funding Cuts: Understanding the Impact on the Global Disability Community

The Alliance invites you to contribute your valuable experiences, approaches, and innovations at the 2025 Annual Meeting by submitting an abstract.

The consultancy will be initially for 3 months between January and March 2025, to be delivered on approximately 5 days a month, with the possibility of extending to another 3 months, depending on funding availability.

Join CELCIS on 30 January when they will look at the findings of the research and discuss these questions with Dr Alex McTier, CELCIS Evidence and Evaluation Specialist and Jane Scott, CELCIS Head of Early Help and Protection, co-authors of the study, Katherine Anderson, Policy Implementation Lead at CELCIS and Mark Inglis Head of Children's Health, Care and Justice Services, South Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership.  

• Title: Senior Manager of Programs
• Position: Staff, full-time exempt
• Location: Telework position, preference for candidates based in the Minneapolis, MN metro or
• Washington, DC metro.

The revised version of the Primary Prevention Framework is now completed. The Alliance is organising a global and two regional launches where they will present the revised Framework including specific areas where adaptations have been introduced, and to showcase additional resources developed, such as the M&E addendum and other new annexes accompanying the Framework.

What challenges do children face when recruited by armed groups or criminal organisations? How can we protect and reintegrate them?

SOS Children's Villages' Global Report on Children’s Care and Protection 2024 sheds light on the dynamics of child-family separation. This document can be used to call on governments and decision-makers to act to strengthen families and improve care and support systems.

Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director, writes that the outlook for children in 2025 does not look good as children face conflicts, climate-related disasters, economic instability and a growing digital divide – all of which are threatening their lives, development and well-being.

Child Maltreatment 2023 (the report) is the latest edition of the annual Child Maltreatment report series. The report is used by researchers, practitioners, and advocates throughout the world as a source for national child welfare data. Jurisdictions provide the data for this report via the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS). NCANDS was established as a voluntary, national data collection and analysis program to make available state child abuse and neglect information. Since 1991, child welfare agencies in the 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia have collected and submitted data for NCANDS.