Child abuse and neglect: new evidence they can cause mental health problems
The research team that authored this article wanted to know if childhood maltreatment directly causes poor mental and physical health.
Championing the Role of Child Welfare Professionals
Child welfare professionals have a deep and often quiet impact on children’s lives—working to connect families with resources, determining appropriate placements, and responding around the clock to address emergencies.
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Strengthening Families through Para Professionals in the Social Service Workforce
This is a PowerPoint presentation by Nathan Linsk from the April 2014 Symposium “Supporting Families, Building a Better Tomorrow for Children: The Role of the Social Service Workforce” hosted by the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance.
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Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute
The Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute is an online institute about dismantling racism, neo-colonialism, and patriarchy in humanitarian and development efforts to protect children and support families.
A Web of Insecurity: Gendered risks and vulnerabilities for children on the move during the COVID-19 pandemic
This issue brief surveys the existing literature based on the limited available data to highlight areas of urgent concern for children on the move as they navigate life during the pandemic, examined through the lens of gender.
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Preprint: ‘Tear down your institutions’. Empirical and evolutionary perspectives on institutional care in SOS Children’s Villages
This study utilizes narrative and quantitative synthesis to review the scientific evidence on the associations between growing up in SOS villages and child development in various domains. Results showed developmental delays of SOS children compared with their peers in families. Compared to children in typical institutions SOS children do better on mental health but worse on physical growth. The preliminary evidence suggests that SOS Children’s Villages should move away from institutional arrangements to family care.
The principles of Nurturing Care promote human capital and mitigate adversities from preconception through adolescence
This paper proposes a comprehensive, multisectoral, multilevel life-course conceptualisation of human capital development by building on the Nurturing Care Framework (NCF), originally developed for the foundational period of growth and development through the age 3 years.
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Celebração De 19 De Novembro, Dia Mundial De Prevenção De Abuso A Criança
A Plataforma 3R é liderada pela Rede CAME, Rede da Criança e ROSC, integrando oito parceiros (ADRA, ChildFund, Diakonia, FDC, Right to Play, Save the Children, SOS-Aldeia da Criança e Terre des Hommes), é uma inciativa conjunta que desenvolve advocacia em prol dos direitos da criança, reforçando
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Posicionamento Das Organizações Da Sociedade Civil: Exigimos Segurança Para Todas As Mulheres E Justiça Para As Vítimas De Matalane
Nós, as Organizações da Sociedade Civil (OSCs) que lutamos por direitos humanos, vimos juntar-nos aos protestos contra o abuso de poder, corrupção e crimes sexuais contra mulheres que foram expostos na Escola Prática da Polícia em Matalane.
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