This issue brief addresses the following questions: What are family resource centers? What are the defining characteristics of a family resource center? What do we know about the effectiveness of family resource centers in reducing child welfare involvement? What is the return on investment? What is missing from the research literature?
This TACTYC funded research highlights the role that Maintained Nursery Schools (MNS) play in supporting families within areas of extreme social deprivation in the UK.
This rapid assessment was conducted with 12,100 respondents across 13 countries, aimed at understanding the needs and gaps in assuring assistance for affected children and communities during the COVID-19 crisis.
Ce rapport souligne que, bien que les enfants ne représentent pas un groupe à haut risque en terme de mortalité directe due à la COVID-19, la pandémie a des impacts secondaires de grande envergure qui augmentent les risques pour les droits et le bien-être des enfants africains.
This policy paper by Save the Children outlines some of the main threats the COVID-19 pandemic poses to children in Africa and suggests some of the political and programmatic responses to protect children’s rights.
This open letter calls on national governments and multilateral institutions to work immediately to strengthen ‘child protection in COVID-19’ response frameworks and to provide sufficient donor support to implement these responses effectively.
In this comment from the Lancet, the authors explores how to communication to children about the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly when someone in the family is hospitalised for or dies from COVID-19.
This child-led research initiative was conducted under the umbrella of World Vision’s DEAR project (Development Education and Awareness Raising) and the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. The study explores explore SDG 16.2, the goal that focuses on the issue of ‘abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and all forms of violence against and torture of children’.
Child Trends conducted this 10th national survey of U.S. child welfare agency expenditures to promote an understanding of the challenges and opportunities agencies face in serving vulnerable children. This report is part of an array of resources compiled from the survey’s findings.
This paper explores how college graduates with foster care histories fare after graduating from a 4-year college that offered a campus-based program.
The goal of this research project is to inform policy and practice in Uganda by providing an estimate of the number of children on the streets in Kampala, Jinja, Iganga and Mbale; insight into the characteristics of these children; and exploration of children’s perspectives of their engagement on the streets.
This briefing note from Spoon Foundation provides considerations for program implementers, policy makers, and funders of programs in nutrition, child protection, and early child development.
This document from the Spoon Foundation provides guidelines for residential institution administrators to keep children nourished and their immune systems strong during the pandemic through diverse, nutrient-dense foods.
This call to action, endorsed by several organizations, calls on European governments and European Union institutions to reinforce actions to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable children and families during the COVID-19 crisis. It outlines the main challenges for vulnerable children and families, and what the EU and European governments can do to address these challenges.
This briefing sets out how organisations can use the Keeping Children Safe International Child Safeguarding Standards to ensure they do all they can to protect children from harm caused by their staff, programmes, operations and partners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Children's Trust Fund Alliance has compiled what they are hearing from parents in the U.S. and some of the creative and flexible responses that their members have been implementing into this document.
This two-module course is aligned to the Guidelines to Strengthen the Social Service Workforce for Child Protection and aims to equip the learner with key strategies to strengthen social service workforce.
This think piece from Innocenti, UNICEF's Office of Research, unpacks what COVID-19 means for data collection efforts on violence against children (VAC).
This report from Change the Record aims to provide an Australian national overview of the Critical Condition of First Nations communities during Covid-19. The report includes evidence on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on children in detention centers as well as children in out-of-home care and their families.
This qualitative study used a case study design to explore the manifestations of the core psycho-social deficits associated with children domiciled in child headed households.
This webpage from the Children's Trust Fund Alliance features research and theory of change, training, and resources on prevention child neglect.
In this webinar hosted by the Center for the Study of Social Policy, experts discussed how family support professionals and organizations have adapted to serve families during the COVID-19 outbreak, and what we are learning that we will carry forward from this time.
If the United States adopted a child allowance, says this brief from the Center for the Study of Social Policy, it would ensure that families with children always have a minimum income on which they can rely, whatever the circumstances.
This brief from the Center for the Study of Social Policy in the U.S. calls for "a much more robust and permanent solution to ensure that everyone has access to paid leave who needs it, during this immediate crisis, and into the future."
