Child Marriage in the Sahel

UNICEF Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring

This brochure from UNICEF provides an overview of child marriage in the Sahel, a region spanning the northern portion of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Shifting the Field: Philanthropy’s role in strengthening child- and youth-led community rooted groups

Marcela Rueda Gomez - Elevate Children Funders Group

This report maps current practice in philanthropic support for child- and youth-led work at the community level and offers strategic advice to donors on how to strengthen their funding modalities to achieve greater impact.

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COVID-19 Future Trends: Impacts on Children and the Search for Opportunities

Sol Pradelli - Elevate Children Funders Group

In attempts to delineate the future impacts on today's children, this paper analyses the COVID-19 crisis as a dynamic phenomenon that shapes children's lives well into adulthood, with age and gender considered key influencing factors. It examines the impacts from previous crises and the available data to build prudent assumptions about the present situation and outlines four scenarios which provide opportunities to identify potential levers for positive change.

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The role of risk in child welfare decision-making: A prospective cohort examination of families transferred to ongoing child protection services after an investigation

Bryn King, Tara Black, Barbara Fallon, Yu Lung - Children and Youth Services Review

This study uses longitudinal administrative data to assess the decision to transfer a family to ongoing child welfare services within twelve months of an initial investigation.

A collective impact approach to supporting youth transitioning out of government care

Annie Smith, Maya Peled, Stephanie Martin - Child Abuse & Neglect

In Vancouver, Western Canada, 60 agencies and 20 youth from government care are working in partnership using a collective impact approach to address the systemic issues and barriers to healthy development that youth from care experience. This mixed-method evaluation included quantitative and qualitative data, collected through outcomes, diaries, surveys, and focus groups, to measure process and outcomes.

Experiences of Becoming Emotionally Dysregulated. A Qualitative Study of Staff in Youth Residential Care

Heine Steinkopf, Dag Nordanger, Brynjulf Stige & Anne Marita Milde - Child & Youth Services

Trauma informed care (TIC) emphasizes the importance of professionals maintaining an emotionally regulated state. For this article, the authors interviewed eight staff members in a residential care unit for children and adolescents where TIC had been implemented, about situations wherein they experienced difficulty regulating their own emotions.

The quality and developmental pathways in sibling relationships: A qualitative study of Norwegian children admitted to child welfare service care

Wenche Hovland, Sarah Hean - Child & Family Social Work

This paper explores young people's perceptions of changes in the quality of sibling relationships and the pathways relationships follow during the transition from the biological family into care.

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Reconstructing Children’s Rights Conversation #3: Confronting Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in Funding

CPC Learning Network

This session’s speakers discussed the funding ecosystem’s challenges and barriers and highlighted examples of how innovative funding mechanisms are reinventing donor giving by shifting resources and power closer to the children, young people, families, and communities they are meant to support.

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Reconstructing Children’s Rights Conversation #2: Confronting Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in Child Welfare and Child Rights Programming

CPC Learning Network

The goal of the Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute is to raise awareness and recognition of how racism, patriarchy, and power permeate the international child rights and child protection field. Building on Conversation #1, this session expands our political imagination by delving deeper into the international children’s rights and child protection space.

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