This page on the website for the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Gender-based Violence (GBV) Guidelines contains COVID-19-specific resources and pulls from the knowledge-base of ebola, zika and cholera outbreaks.

Este recurso de Changing the Way We Care ofrece una guía en la adaptación y/o el desarrollo de servicios y programas para continuar atendiendo de mejor forma a los NNA y las familias durante este periodo de tiempo de cambio constante, particularmente en el monitoreo virtual de niños, niñas, adolescentes, sus familias y para el personal de hogares de protección durante la pandemia de COVID-19.

Este documento de Changing the Way We Care utiliza un marco ecológico para mostrar como la pandemia del COVID-19 crisis podría afectar a los NNA, las familias y las comunidades y como ayudar a los programas a reorganizar, adaptar y priorizar las actividades de prevención y respuesta.

This brief from Changing the Way We Care uses an ecological framework to help illustrate how the COVID-19 crisis might impact the children, families and communities and how to help programs adapt, reorganize and prioritize prevention and response activities.

This call to public authorities presents recommendations from RELAF for preventing family separation and implementing adequate care and protection measures to protect children’s rights put at risk by the pandemic and its implications.

This resource provides specific guidance to parents on how to talk to children about, and help them understand, the COVID-19 crisis.

This note from the GBV AoR Helpdesk aims to provide practical support to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) practitioners to adapt GBV case management service delivery models quickly and ethically during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The authors of this paper conducted a review of the psychological impact of quarantine, including the impact on children, using three electronic databases.

This briefing from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines actions for meeting the needs of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This concept note from the Better Care Network (BCN), the Child Protection in Crisis Learning Network (CPC Learning Network) and the Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (CP MERG) calls for the participation of other leading organizations in an inter-agency coalition, the Children’s Care Research Initiative, in an effort to strengthen the evidence base around the best ways to improve care for children and to reinforce global capacity to utilize this evidence.

This article from the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Administration for Children and Families provides information and resources on the COVID-19 crisis for child welfare workers, children involved in the child welfare system, foster care providers, and more.

A la luz de la pandemia de COVID19 y su impacto desproporcionado en las personas con discapacidad, la Alianza Internacional de Discapacidad (IDA) ha compilado la siguiente lista de las principales barreras que enfrentan las personas con discapacidad en esta situación de emergencia junto con algunas soluciones prácticas y recomendaciones.

This webpage from Be Strong Families features resources for families during the COVID-19 crisis.

This statement from the Center for the Study of Social Policy emphasizes the need to respond to the needs of children, youth, and families who are likely to suffer most during the COVID-19 crisis, including children, youth, and families in institutional settings and families involved in the child welfare system.

In this statement on the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Center for the Study of Social Policy calls for more support for those who are likely to be hurt most by the current crisis, particularly low-income families.

For this study, one hundred and twenty‐six 11–21 year olds (53 who had experience of the care system and 73 who did not) were recruited from the community and NHS. All participants had self‐harmed in the past 6 months. Participants completed an Audio Computer‐Assisted Self‐interview (ACASI) regarding their views about the support they had received, how helpful it was, and what further help they felt they needed.

This page from the UNICEF website features the latest updates, explainers for parents and teachers, and resources for media related to COVID-19.

In this comment, the authors have suggested ways that the Chinese government could establish and improve the intervention system based on sound scientific advice, to effectively deal with the mental health problems caused by public health emergencies.

These guidelines reflect the insights of practitioners from different geographic regions, disciplines and sectors, and reflect an emerging consensus on good practice among practitioners. The core idea behind them is that, in the early phase of an emergency, social supports are essential to protect and support mental health and psychosocial well-being. In addition, the guidelines recommend selected psychological and psychiatric interventions for specific problems.

This literature scan identifies and synthesizes existing literature examining the effects of pandemics and the identification of policy solutions to mitigate their effects on a well defined group of Canada’s population—children in the care of Canada’s child welfare system.

This factsheet from Generations United provides grandparents who are raising grandchildren with resources and information on how to stay healthy, informed and connected in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This free collection of articles includes relevant psychological research published across the APA Journals portfolio that are relevant to the topic COVID-19.

This page includes the official IFSW statements relating to the Covid-19 Virus and IFSW member updates and reports.

This situation report from UNICEF presents an overview of humanitarian needs during the COVID-19 pandemic and a summary of UNICEF's global preparedness and response actions.

On this webpage, ISPCAN has gathered resources on how to navigate through the COVID 19 pandemic.

This resource from Changing the Way We Care offers guidance on adapting and/or developing services and programming to continue to best serve children and families throughout the rapidly changing times of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on conducting virtual monitoring of children, families, alternative care placements and residential care facilities.

This document, and the accompanying Dropbox folder feature collected global, regional, and country-level resources for COVID-19.

This webpage from UNICEF features a list of resources for practitioners working with children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report seeks to understand the issues faced by vulnerable populations in emergencies, including children, in order to provide them with support and priority assistance and to engage them in decision-making processes for response, recovery, preparedness, and risk reduction.

This interim guidance is issued to assist field staff to immediately respond to urgent needs of people in humanitarian situations, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), host communities, asylum seekers, refugees and returnees, and migrants.

This brief from UNICEF outlines the urgent action needed to put migrant and displaced children at the forefront of UNICEF’s preparedness, prevention and response to COVID19 – to ensure health, safety, and protection for all.

This webpage presents a selection of tools, articles and other resources being shared across the community of children’s rights practitioners concerning the current coronavirus pandemic.

Parenting for Lifelong Health provides open-access online parenting resources during COVID-19.

To help parents interact constructively with their children during this time of confinement, these six one-page tips for parents cover planning one-on-one time, staying positive, creating a daily routine, avoiding bad behaviour, managing stress, and talking about COVID-19. 

This guide from IFRC, UNICEF and the World Health Organization offers some tips on how to address and avoid compounding, social stigma in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This document from Save the Children provides parents, schools and communities with tools and tips you can trust about coronavirus (COVID-19) and kids.

Este documento de Save the Children presenta a los padres, las escuelas y las comunidades herramientas y consejos sobre el coronavirus (COVID-19) y los niños en los que puede confiar.

Este llamado a las autoridades públicas presenta recomendaciones de RELAF para tomar las medidas de prevención y atención adecuadas para garantizar el derecho a la vida familiar y comunitaria en el marco de la pandemia.

This guidance provides a short overview of the child protection (CP) risks associated with disease outbreak.

In the light of the COVID19 pandemic and its disproportionate impact on persons with disabilities, the International Disability Alliance (IDA) has compiled the following list of the main barriers that persons with disabilities face in this emergency situation along with some practical solutions and recommendations.

In the light of the COVID19 pandemic and with the aim to support a disability-inclusive response to the crisis, International Disability Alliance (IDA) has launched this webpage to share the most recent updates and resources as they become available.

This resource from Save the Children provides some information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on persons with disabilities and highlights the need for inclusive responses.

This statement from Jack P. Shonkoff of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University notes that the Center is "assembling easily accessible and actionable scientific knowledge for supporting the developmental needs of young children and their families in this current context."

This article from the Child Mind Institute, and the accompanying video, offer advice to parents and caregivers on how to discuss COVID-19 with children in a way that will be reassuring and not make kids more worried than they already may be. 

This document summarizes key mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) considerations in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak, such as appropriate MHPSS responses, overarching principles and globally recommended activities.

This one page leaflet from the World Health Organization offers advice to parents and caregivers on how to help children cope with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This resource offers information on supporting and protecting children’s emotional well-being as this public health crisis unfolds.

Dr. Giuseppe (Bepi) Raviola, director of mental health at Partners In Health, has put together this list of key practices - including positive family time - to maintain good mental and emotional health for those asked to stay at home in efforts to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. 

This briefing note summarizes key mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) considerations in relation to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

In an effort to provide the community with helpful resources during the coronavirus pandemic, WQED has put together a collection of resources. 

This collection of resources from PBS Learning Media includes animation and visual images to introduce basic concepts of math, science, social studies, art and health to the youngest learners.

This page from the Early Childhood Development Action Network website provides a list of resources on caring for children during the COVID-19 pandemic, aimed at parents, early childhood workers, educators, administrators, child protection practitioners and others.

This framework represents Save the Children’s planning assumptions and priority areas for implementation over four phases of programming: Preparedness, Initial Response, Large-Scare Response, and Recovery.

This guidance note details the four priority areas that case management agencies will need to focus on in the coming days and months during COVID-19 for child protection.

This report examines (1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data on apprehended family unit members; the extent to which (2) CBP and (3) the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) developed and implemented policies and procedures for processing family units; and (4) how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) share information about unaccompanied alien children (UAC).

El presente folleto incluye información para preparar a los niños y niñas para que regresen a sus hogares o ingresen a servicios de atención basados en una familia sustituta.

An event was held in 2017 to explore child-data gaps and why they exist; how such gaps relate to the United Nation’s promise to “leave no one behind”, and what practical steps can be taken to break down barriers to ensure that children are included and benefit from the commitments made in the Sustainable Development Goals. This report summarises the outcomes of the event and proposes next steps.

This article presents a tentative analysis of 30 years of academic research in the field of children’s rights and migration (1989–2019).

This handout includes information for preparing children to return home or to move to alternative family-based care services.

Este informe presenta información sobre el problema de institucionalización de niños en América Latina y el Caribe.

El presente documento de protección está destinado a guiar las acciones de las instituciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales de Ecuador, en su respuesta humanitaria para la protección de los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes ecuatorianos y sus familias, afectadas por el terremoto ocurrido en fecha 16 de Abril del 2016.

In this article, Patricia O'Rourke describes the way in which she applies psychodrama in her therapeutic reunification work with parents and babies in the child protection system in Australia.

The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of orphans and vulnerable children’s parents/guardians about the effectiveness of Future Families’ children programme in Olievenhoutbosch as a way to explore how much they are involved in the process of designing the programme activities and if they perceive the programme as effective in responding to their family needs.

This review aims to provide social workers with a resource to guide their decision‐making by evaluating both the benefits and risks associated with open adoption.

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In this study, the social network assessment instrument (Blakeslee, 2015) was used to better understand the support networks of youth participants in a college-readiness program aimed at increasing graduation rates and post-secondary transitions for youth in foster care.

The purpose of the present study was to examine how maltreatment chronicity and coping style were associated with internalizing, externalizing, and psychiatric hospitalizations, and whether coping style moderated the relation between maltreatment chronicity and mental health in a sample of foster adolescents.

This presentation explores the structures and programs one university system is creating for college students emerging from foster care (SEFC).

This presentation will begin in the form of a story—a story of a real, in the human flesh person who came into the foster care system as a victim of abuse and neglect and left as a college graduate and continued her success as a social worker, child advocate, Statewide Youth Advisory Board Coordinator, and educator.

This study investigates tensions between stated goals and experiences of foster care, from the perspective of (formerly) fostered youth.

The authors of this study conducted a randomized controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of a parent group training tailored to the special needs of foster families.

This presentation will offer practical approaches to navigating systems in order to provide a consistent continuum of care for children involved in the foster care system.

The present study of children’s caregivers involved in child welfare examined the factors associated with their receiving services for substance use.

This book brings together knowledge of how modern countries in Europe and the United States deal with the issue of errors and mistakes in child protection in a cross-national perspective.

This document includes protocols, procedures and guidelines for anyone within Save the Children South Africa to prevent and respond to child protection concerns when they arise.

This article summarizes the situation of unaccompanied child (UAC) refugees in Greece in 2017/2018.

This brief from Lumos reviews the the transition from institutional to family and community-based care under the European Social Fund (ESF) funding period 2014-2018, including promising deinstitutionalisation practices, and outlines key recommendations to the European Union for the completion and implementation of the ESF+ 2021- 2027 funding period.

This report from Lumos sets out the evidence about the harm that institutions can cause and presents the case for prioritising family and community-based alternatives to institutional care.

This report provides an overview of a February 2020 meeting - hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation, Daniel Schwartz, and the Miracle Foundation - held in Bellagio, Italy focused on a cross sectoral ‘outside look in’ examination of the issue of children’s care.

Este documento está elaborado con el fin de proporcionar criterios de evaluación en el ejercicio de la atención que brinden las entidades en general, en especial las que se ocupan de la protección especial los derechos de todo los niños, niñas y adolescentes.

El objetivo de este documento es identificar y transmitir las características del método que ha empleado RELAF para generar la adecuación de los subsistemas de protección integral de derechos de los niños privados de cuidados familiares o en riesgo de perderlos, haciendo énfasis en procesos de desinstitucionalización.

Este Manual desarrolla de manera genérica el marco conceptual y los diferentes procesos que constituyen un programa de un programa de acogimiento familiar para niños, niñas y adolescentes, de forma que resulta aplicable y adaptable a todos los contextos legales-políticos-institucionales que conviven en México.

This paper documents the results of a mapping exercise of the children’s sector in South Africa as of June 2014 to provide an information platform to inform Save the Children's strategic reflection and planning process.

The aim of the study is to highlight the basic social services provided to children and their families as well as the main reasons for abandonment of children and to propose measures to improve social services for children to ensure social security in the regions.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the approaches developed in the legal doctrine to understanding the forms of placement of children deprived of parental care and upbringing, and also to outline a vision of how to overcome orphanhood in Ukraine through the introduction of both legalized family forms of placement of such children, which are prioritized over residential forms of upbringing and the unregulated ones.

This article offers a comprehensive look at the LGBTQ foster youth population in the U.S., its vulnerabilities, and its distinct needs.

This study examined the impact of adrenocortical activity and post-adoption parenting on disinhibited social engagement (DSE) across the first two years post-adoption (age at adoption: 16–36 months) and observed kindergarten social outcomes in previously institutionalized children compared to non-adopted children.

The present study had two goals: 1) To conduct a systematic scoping review of the literature on interventions purporting to develop and/or enhance emotional intelligence (EI)-related competencies in child welfare professionals, whether those interventions be at the caseworker, supervisor, or organizational level; 2) To consider future directions for the teaching and enhancement of EI competencies for child welfare professionals.

This chapter of Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child provides an overview of the foster care system in the United States.

This chapter of Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child provides a template for evaluating and reforming the U.S. foster care system to prioritize the best interests of children.

In this chapter of Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child, the authors describe the history of legislative and judicial efforts to reform the foster care system.

This chapter of Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child first describes how foster care, intended as a temporary but necessary solution for children who cannot safely remain at home, is increasingly described as a problem in and of itself rather than as a solution to a difficult problem.

This volume provides an in-depth examination of the history and goals of the foster care system in the US, how and why it fails to adequately meet children’s needs, and what it would take to actualize meaningful improvements in children’s experiences and outcomes.

This chapter provides a review and analysis of the “best interests of the child” standard in foster care policy and practice.

The authors of this study used a retrospective cohort design with linked administrative data on 296,422 children to examine the relationship between school absenteeism and child protection system (CPS) involvement.

This survey of the statutory provisions and case law of all 50 states [of the USA] and the District of Columbia includes the rights of children to parental support, inheritance, and familial association remaining upon termination of parental rights.

This qualitative study explores the experiences of unaccompanied children with regard to violence in reception facilities in the Netherlands from the perspective of the children.

This document outlines Save the Children South Africa’s strategic ambitions for the period 2015 to 2020.

This study zeroes in on the issue of left-behind children and draws on data from the China Family Panel Studies surveys to examine the impacts of parental absence on child development in psychological, physical and cognitive domains.