Child Protection Mentoring Guide

Save the Children Australia

This guide aims to build Save the Children staff capacity through the provision of mentoring to Save the Children staff, funded partner organisations, staff and volunteers, including field coordinators, child and youth group leaders, community mentors and facilitators.

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A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse and Neglect: The Foundation for Practice

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Fam i lies Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children's Bureau Office on Child Abuse and Neglect

This manual - the first in a series - provides an overview of the problem of child abuse and neglect and the prevention and intervention processes.

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Guidance for Alternative Care Provision During COVID-19

Better Care Network, Save the Children, The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, UNICEF, and the Inter-agency Task Force

This document provides practical guidance to actors in humanitarian and development contexts on the adaptations and considerations needed to support children who are either currently in alternative care or are going into an alternative care placement during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Characterizing street-connected children and youths’ social and health inequities in Kenya: a qualitative study

L. Embleton, P. Shah, A. Gayapersad, R. Kiptui, D. Ayuku & P. Braitstein - International Journal for Equity in Health

This study sought to identify and understand how street-connected children and youth (SCY)’s social and health inequities in Kenya are produced, maintained, and shaped by structural and social determinants of health using the WHO conceptual framework on social determinants of health (SDH) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) General Comment no. 17.

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Transition to Adulthood: What We Know (and What We Don’t) about Young People with Foster Care Experience from the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD)

Rachel Rosenberg, Sunny Sun, Alyssa Liehr - Child Trends

This brief from Child Trends explores the transition to adulthood for young people with foster care experience in the U.S., including federal policies impacting the transition.

Professional competencies of practitioners in family and parenting support programmes. A German and Dutch case study

Franziska Cohen, Mareike Trauernicht, Ryanne Francot, Martine Broekhuizen, Yvonne Anders - Children and Youth Services Review

The authors of this study conducted a qualitative case study and obtained in-depth knowledge about the necessary professional competencies from the perspective of financiers, providers, practitioners, and participants across three cases of family and parenting support programmes in Germany and the Netherlands.

What is known about child sexual exploitation in residential care in Australia? A systematic scoping review

Kathomi Gatwiri, Nadine Cameron, Lynne Mcpherson, Natalie Parmenter - Children and Youth Services Review

Employing a systematic scoping methodology, this review examined the scope and breadth of literature focusing on children and young people living in residential care in Australia who have experienced sexual exploitation.