The Swedish Presidency has initiated a declaration to support the protection of Ukrainian children. The declaration will mobilise support among EU Member States for continued engagement in protecting the children who have been affected by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

DRI asked more than 500 families living in Ukraine what they are now experiencing during the war and what they need. In interviews with DRI staff, parents lay out all the difficult challenges and barriers they face. These interviews provide a blueprint of the change that must occur – by governments, donors, policymakers, caregivers, and communities during the war and recovery process.

La Guía para facilitadores de “Educando en Familia” es una guía realizada por “Cambiando La Forma en que Cuidamos Guatemala” y está basada en la metodología de Educando en Familia de la Secretaría de Bienestar Social de la Presidencia de la Republica de Guatemala, la guía proporciona herramientas, dinámicas y técnicas para trabajar el programa con grupos de padres, madres y cuidadores; la guía está dirigida a las personas que facilitan el programa o que están certificados para replicarlo por SBS.

This ECDAN webinar discussed the current state of parenting support in crisis, efforts to deliver parenting interventions, and recommendations for delivery.

Шістнадцять неурядових організацій, які мають досвід захисту дітей, інклюзії з обмеженими можливостями та прав людини, закликають Уряд України та його міжнародних партнерів виконати ці ключові рекомендації щодо розвитку інклюзивної системи захисту дітей та піклування.

This is the monthly update of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Learning Platform published in June 2023. 

In March 2022, Changing the Way We Care in partnership with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection (MoLSP) launched a Working Group focused on strengthening the social service workforce in Moldova.

În martie 2022, Changing the Way We Care, în parteneriat cu Ministerul Muncii și Protecției Sociale (MMPS), a lansat un grup de lucru axat pe consolidarea forței demuncă în domeniul serviciilor sociale din Moldova.

In the project “Applying Safe Behaviours”, SOS Children’s Villages is working to enable children, young people and professionals to prevent and appropriately respond to peer violence amongst children and young people in alternative care and vulnerable families.

The practice of child marriage has continued to decline globally. Today, one in five young women aged 20 to 24 years were married as children versus nearly one in four 10 years ago.

Though research has been conducted on children with disabilities and on children in residential care settings, the intersections of these two topics has yet to be explored in depth. Notably, there is a lack of information surrounding disability measurement within residential care settings, highlighting a gap in the literature. It is estimated that a child with a disability is 17 times more likely to be placed in an institutionalized care setting than a child without a disability, and girls are more likely to be placed in an institution than boys. This report details research conducted in Kenya.

In the BBC interview below, parent activist Taliah Drayak presents key findings from the report: Children’s Social Care: The Way Forward. She describes her family’s own nightmare when social workers removed her two-year-old from her custody. 

Changing the Way We Care prioritizes scaling family care as part of care reform. To support global efforts, CTWWC developed a conceptual framework to scaling within the countries where it works. The country-level conceptual framework presents scaling as a seven-step process. Scaling approaches vary across contexts and countries with there being no one-sized fits all approach.

This guidance aims to provide case workers and others at residential care facilities with the considerations they need to look at for the successful reunification and placement of children with disabilities into family care, including understanding disability and how it impacts children’s care, disability-inclusive case management, and preparing children with disabilities for reunification/placement.

This brief summarizes the original design of Changing the Way We Care’s family strengthening approach,  the  lessons  learned  during  implementation,  and  the adaptations  that  CTWWC  is  making  to  maximize  the  impact  of  its  family strengthening work.

This CTWWC brief describes the family strengthening approach and the people who work with families and children. It shares reflections from facilitators of parenting sessions and the caregivers, themselves.

Positive parenting programs are an important part of this package and are provided together with training in household finance, access to household economic strengthening opportunities, and referrals to other critical services such as child protection and disability support and helping families under stress feel supported and part of their local community. This brief describes the program and interventions.

Learnings #1: Positive Parenting and Care Reform in Kenya
 

This Changing the Way We Care Insights Learning Brief describes how systems strengthening alone can lead to scaling of interventions, including interventions that already exist.

This facilitator’s manual provides the detailed content for each session and should only be delivered by trained facilitators. For more information contact CTWWC through info@ctwwc.org or by SMS on 21437 

This guide is part of the Families Together parenting curriculum for families who have a child reintegrating into the home.

Families Together is a positive parenting program for use with families at risk of separation and families undergoing reintegration of children from residential care.

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This document makes the case for the importance of investing in family strengthening in countries across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It has a particular focus on support for families so that any unnecessary separation of children from their families and placement in alternative care can be prevented.

The objective of this Save the Children Spain document is to gather the key findings of the combination of “Parenting with tenderness” and “Parenting on the move” in migratory contexts. It also seeks to improve the quality of its implementation in the context of Mexican migration, based on good practices and lessons learned. 

This Save the Children case study aims to briefly describe the process of developing specialised training package for foster care of Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Serbia, its key components and main lessons learned from the process. 

La investigación es un trabajo en conjunto entre DONCEL, GUÍA EGRESO y 

This paper presents a community based participatory research project, which adopted a photovoice approach with seven unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) living in foster care in the United Kingdom.

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This methodology report is a companion to Te Mātātaki, the first national survey of tamariki and rangatahi in care in New Zealand.

This report presents findings from Te Tohu o te Ora, the first national survey of tamariki and rangatahi in care.

This youth-led study sought to capture the perspectives of Indigenous youth who had been involved in the criminal justice system (or who were at high risk of such involvement), and who had accessed substance use treatment and/or had experienced barriers to accessing substance use services.

This is an ethical framework to guide engagement with tamariki (children) and rangatahi (young people) who are care experienced (that is, who currently or at some stage in their lives have been in foster or residential care).

The case studies outlined in this publication draw upon earlier work, which suggested that young people leaving care may broadly fall into one of three groups: those successfully ‘moving on’ from care; those who are ‘survivors’; and those who are ‘strugglers’.

This paper presents three care experienced perspectives on the benefits and challenges of capturing the voices of young people to inform policy and organisational decision-making in youth services.

This paper presents the findings of a study in the Australian state of Victoria where a group of lived experience consultants (LECs) were employed to consult on the results of a broader survey of the attitudes of professionals, carers and care leavers regarding the educational experiences of children in out-of-home care.

The purpose of the assessment was to present an overview of best practice Family Strengthening interventions, models, and approaches (hereinafter grouped together as 'interventions') in Central and Eastern European middle-income countries.

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) conducted a study on the support by U.S. Catholic organizations for overseas residential care of children in 2018. This report provides insights from the study on U.S. Catholic Church support for children’s residential care facilities outside of the U.S. Its data provides a foundation for building effective engagement and messaging strategies, as well as helps inform advocacy and influence work concerning support for family strengthening and care for vulnerable children by the U.S. Catholic community.

This is the monthly update of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Learning Platform published in April 2023. 

El informe tiene como objetivo promover el uso de estos datos con el propósito de dar más protagonismo a los niños y niñas con discapacidad y de ese modo lograr una conciencia más plena de sus vivencias.

L’objectif du présent rapport est de promouvoir l’utilisation de ces données afin de rendre les enfants handicapés davantage visibles et de mieux comprendre leurs expériences de vie.

تخل  جهود نمضالإعاقة  يللأطفال ذو جالإدما دصرعملية  تلَّطعتلطالما  شاملة. غير أنّ السنوات الأخيرةو ٍةقالتنمية بسبب الافتقار إلى بياناتٍ موثو  الأدواتوشهدت جهوداً مُجدَّدة كانت ترمي إلى سدّ الثغرات في البيانات.  أدَّت إلى زيادةٍ كبيرة في توافر دقلجمع البيانات  تَث ِدحُالجديدة التي است  رُوْلبت زّالإعاقة، الأمر الذي عز يجودة البيانات المتعلقة بالأطفال ذوو ج المعرفة.اتنالتحليلات الجديدة وساهم في زيادة إ

The report’s objective is to promote the use of these data to make children with disabilities more visible, bringing about a fuller understanding of their life experiences.

Millions of children with disabilities around the globe continue to be left behind, despite the near-universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the call for action embedded in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the clear mandate set by the

Children with disabilities and children on the move represent highly diverse populations living in a broad range of circumstances. But as two of the most marginalized groups of children in the world, there is much they have in common, often-times neglected in data collection, policies and programming. This report examines children’s lives when these two identities intersect.

This webinar explores approaches to supporting kinship care during crises (including political and economic crises in Lebanon); the support needs of Ukrainian refugees in kinship care in the UK and examples of how cross-border placements into kinship care can be effectively supported.

The story of Buckner Guatemala’s transition from residential care to family care is told in this recently released Faith to Action case study. The case study details their experience through three stages of transition—learning, preparation and planning, and full transition—with transparency. It addresses common challenges for transitioning organizations, as well as the strategies Buckner took to overcome them.

During the 54th session of the UN Statistical Commission, the Global MICS team launched MICS 7 with several new initiatives such as MICS Plus, geocoding, and integration with administrative data sources.

The report focuses on the 5 key strategic priorities: critical and social infrastructure, energy infrastructure, housing, private sectors development and humanitarian demining.

După 60 de ani de activitate în calitate de instituție rezidențială pentru copii cu dizabilități, Școala-Internat Auxiliară Hîncești (SIA Hîncești) din Moldova și-a închis, în cele din urmă, ușile în mai 2022. Închiderea SIA Hîncești și reintegrarea copiilorrămași în grijaacestei instituții

After 60 years of serving as a residential institution for children with disabilities, the Hîncești Auxiliary Boarding school (SIA Hîncești) in Moldova closed its doors to children in May 2022. The closing of Hîncești SIA serves as a harbinger for what is possible for other institutions for children with disabilities in Moldova and around the world.

Ce document fournit des conseils sur la manière d’appliquer les normes internationales en travaillant avec les enfants et leurs familles touchés par cette crise.

Con este documento se pretende ofrecer un marco sobre cómo implementar las normas internacionales al trabajar con niños/as y sus
familias que se han visto afectados por esta crisis.

This International Social Service document provides guidance on how to apply international standards when working with children and their families impacted by the crisis in Ukraine.

The Nurturing Care Practice Guide is designed for managers and service providers who are responsible for or provide health and nutrition services for young children and their caregivers at any level.

Save the Children a développé ce programme d'apprentissage afin d'évaluer l'utilisation des téléphones portables comme mécanismes d'information et de rétroaction pour les enfants placés en Gambie et de déterminer s'il est efficace et sécurisé.

In this case study IZU Cyriaque supports a grandparent-headed household during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This case study details how IZU Elisa supported a child-headed household in Kayonza district, Rwanda.

This case study details,how IZU Emmanuel and Genevieve supported a young person living with disabilities in Kamonyi district, Rwanda.

This case study details how IZU Immaculee and Naphtal help Laura to escape child labour and abuse in Musanze, Rwanda.

This brief presents the results of several assessments of the ‘Friends of the Family’ or ‘Inshuti z’Umuryango’ (IZU) initiative  in Rwanda. IZU is a frontline volunteer cadre introduced in 2016 as part of Rwanda's national child protection system strengthening and care reform efforts. 

This brief outlines the background to, rationale for, and objectives of the ‘Inshuti z’Umuryango’ (IZU) or ‘Friends of the Family’ programme in relation to Rwanda’s wider child protection strategy. 

This webinar examines the Bright Spots programme findings in relation to careleavers 'interdependence'.

This presentation is by the Children’s Trust Fund Alliance and their colleagues regarding a project they have been working on in partnership with parents to identify alternatives to CPS investigations.

Alexander is one of many Ukrainian teenagers who fled to Moldova unaccompanied. Thanks to the partnership between border police, child protection specialists working with UNICEF and local authorities, he was identified and integrated into a foster family from Causeni. Since the onset of the conflict, one of UNICEF's biggest priorities has been to protect children from abuse or trafficking. 

This report examines what happens after unaccompanied children have arrived at their European destinations and is based on interviews with key informants, a literature review, and research in three sites (Lebanon, Greece and Germany). What does it mean to integrate into a new society when you are a child on your own? How do they face the challenges of building an identity without their families, process the violence and dangers of their journeys, and face a new situation that may not be as welcoming or straightforward as they had expected?

This web application was developed to allow for the exploration of various scenarios in the field of education, health, and child protection. The application offers a platform for the analysis of historical trends and patterns using a combination of open data and proprietary data shared by the Government of Moldova.

Deneisha Moss, Programme Lead for Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Children’s Programme at CHIP explains the importance of protection the identity rights of children.

This is the monthly update of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Learning Platform published in March 2023. 

In this short video, practitioners from across the region discuss why supporting kinship care is so important, the support needs of kinship care families, and lessons learnt in supporting kinship care.

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the nature and characteristics of Kafalah in Eastern and Southern Africa and identify effective strategies to support Kafalah.

Save the Children has developed this learning agenda in order to assess the use of cell phones as information and feedback mechanisms for foster children in Gambia and to determine whether it is effective and secure. 

تهدف هذه المذكرة التوجيهية إلى دعم منفذي البرنامج والمنسقين والجهات الفاعلة الإنسانية الأخرى في معالجة الانتحار وإيذاء النفس في الأوضاع الإنسانية. إنه يجمع مجموعة واسعة من الأساليب والأدوات والمواد المرجعية وأمثلة الحالة.

本指导说明旨在支持项目实施者、协调员和其他人道主义行为者解决人道主义环境中的自杀和自残问题。 它汇集了范围广泛的方法、工具、参考资料和案例示例。 它是一种实用而简洁的资源，适用于所有类型的紧急情况、组织和部门。

该文件包括三个主要部分：(i) 机构间协调和评估； (ii) 所有方案的基本组成部分； (iii) 关键有效的自杀预防和干预计划活动，读者可以根据优先事项和需要从中选择。 色彩丰富的说明旨在有效帮助人道主义行为者将技术内容应用到现实生活中。 它还展示了跨紧急情况的众多多部门自杀预防举措的例子，从国际组织的无线电广播活动到国家当局实施的数据收集方法。

Cette note d'orientation vise à aider les responsables de la mise en œuvre des programmes, les coordinateurs et les autres acteurs humanitaires à lutter contre le suicide et l'automutilation dans les contextes humanitaires.

Esta nota de orientação visa apoiar os implementadores de programas, coordenadores e outros atores humanitários na abordagem do suicídio e da automutilação em contextos humanitários. Ele reúne uma ampla gama de abordagens, ferramentas, materiais de referência e exemplos de casos.

Это руководство направлено на оказание поддержки исполнителям программ, координаторам и другим гуманитарным организациям в борьбе с самоубийствами и членовредительством в гуманитарных условиях. Он объединяет широкий спектр подходов, инструментов, справочных материалов и примеров из практики.

This toolkit developed by Plan International Asia-Pacific Regional Hub serves as a practical compendium of programming guidance for practitioners, and contributes to accelerating efforts to end child, early and forced marriage and unions (CEFMU) by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This End Violence Against Children briefing paper summarises research showing reductions in the approval and use of corporal punishment in some countries which have reformed their laws to prohibit all corporal punishment.

This paper attempts to highlight some of the key issues regarding child labour and education in emergencies.

ការសិកសាស្រវជ្រវនះត្រូវធ្វើឡើងជាផ្នកមួយនគម្រងស្រវជ្រវពហុប្រទស ដលមានច្រើន ដំណាក់កាល ដលត្រូវបានរចនាឡើង ដើមបីពង្រឹងការកំណត់អត្តសញ្ញណ ការផ្ដន្ទទោស និងការទប់ស្កត់ បទល្មើសជួញដូរកុមារក្នុងមណ្ឌលកុមារកំព្រ។ការសិកសាស្រវជ្រវនះគឺជាដំណាក់កាលទីពីរនដំណាក់កាល ទាំងបួន ដលត្រូវធ្វើនៅកម្ពុជា ក្នុងនាមជាប្រទសមួយក្នុងច

This study was conducted as a part of a multi-stage, multi-country project designed to enhance the identification, prosecution, and prevention of orphanage trafficking crimes. It was the second of four stages to be conducted in Cambodia as one of three jurisdictions included in the study. This report contains a summary of findings from this stage two case data and case study analysis.

This paper provides an overview of the largest longitudinal investigation of institutionalized children less than 2 years old ever conducted. The Bucharest Early Intervention Project is an ongoing randomized controlled trial of foster placement as an alternative to institutionalization in abandoned infants and toddlers being conducted in Bucharest, Romania.

In this review, the authors detail the extent to which early deprivation affects mental health during vulnerable developmental periods, the capacity of family-based care to facilitate recovery from early deprivation, and the mechanisms underpinning these effects spanning social–emotional, cognitive, stress, and neurobiological domains.

This study examined longitudinal data from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care following exposure to severe psychosocial deprivation. The findings indicate that early investment in family care as an alternative to institutional care leads to sustained gains in cognitive ability.

Brief overview of the situation regarding the rights of people with disabilities in Ukraine one year after the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

This survey was carried out from December 19, 2022, to January 17, 2023. Its purpose was to determine the situation regarding potential opportunities for the implementation of legally guaranteed rights for children with disabilities and members of their families and the relevant practices and to study the urgent problems in the wartime.

Este documento se basa en la experiencia de Cambiando la Forma en Que Cuidamos (o sus siglas en inglés, CTWWC) Guatemala en procesos de fortalecimiento familiar y comunitario en un área específica de intervención.

This learning brief shares learning from Kenya around the barriers that contribute to family separation for children with disabilities and how disability networks are working to create a supportive environment for family-based care for these children.