Examines the most effective ways of dealing with and diminishing parental stress, and what are the factors that contribute to children’s resilience and coping mechanisms in challenging care environments in particular contexts

The study provides a solid foundation for furthering research on child adoption and, more specifically, on the demographic factors that shape the demand for and the availability of adoptable children.

Companion resource to It’s About Ability, designed to empower children and young people to speak out on the convention and become advocates for inclusion.

UNODC published Guidelines to implement family skills training programmes for drug abuse prevention in March 2009. These guidelines contain evidence of effectiveness, principles of family skills training programmes, cultural adaptation guidelines, advice on how to recruit and retain families through the programmes, practical advice on training of staff, as well as information about monitoring and evaluating family skills training programmes.

A directory of resources promoting and guiding the participation of disabled children and young people in program development.

Evaluates a number of fundamental misperceptions that have undermined the global response to children affected by the epidemic, and sets out evidence on how to better respond to their needs.

Experts gathered in Carmona Spain to examine the results of policy relevant systemic reviews on social welfare and cash transfers. Meeting delegates explored the findings of reviews on integration of social welfare services and cash transfers in Ghana, Chile, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Kenya.

Each “case study” chapter in this book provides a rich description of the development, current status, and future of residential care in countries from Brazil to Botswana.

The ARC resource pack provides an essential collection of information and training material, to strengthen people’s capacity: to tackle the root causes of children’s vulnerabilities to build effective child protection systems for use in emergencies and long-term development to ensure that no activities inadvertently compromise children’s rights or safety.

This document accompanies the ARC Resource Pack modules and other materials and offers a glossary of terms used in the resource pack.