Expedited Case Management Process for Permanent Placement in Families after COVID-19 Lockdown

Miracle Foundation

This guidance from Miracle Foundation outlines case management process and tools aimed at children in Child Care Institutions (CCIs) in India who have been placed with their families during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of these case management processes and tools is to determine feasibility of permanent placement and expedite family-based care in families in which children were placed quickly and without proper preparation during COVID-19 lockdown.

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La Protezione Dei Bambini Durante La Pandemia di COVID-19: Bambini ed accoglienza etero-familiare

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

L’obiettivo della presente nota tecnica è di aiutare i professionisti di protezione dell’infanzia e i funzionari governativi nelle loro azioni di risposta immediata ai problemi relativi alla protezione dell’infanzia affrontati dai bambini a rischio di separazione o in affido etero-familiare durante la pandemia di COVID-19.

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Attachment development in children adopted from China: the role of pre-adoption care and sensitive adoptive parenting

Chloë Finet, Theodore E. A. Waters, Harriet J. Vermeer, Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Guy Bosmans - Attachment & Human Development

The current study examined the attachment development of 92 internationally adopted Chinese girls, focusing on the influence of type of pre-adoption care (institutional versus foster care) and sensitive adoptive parenting.

Policy Brief: COVID-19 & Risks to Children’s Health and Nutrition

World Vision

Based on experience working with children, families and communities in emergencies, including epidemics, in this policy brief, World Vision outlines a number of recommendations for Governments, UN Agencies, Donors, NGOS, Private Sector and Faith Leaders to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on children’s health and nutrition, particularly for vulnerable children. 

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“Barriers to” and “Recommendations for” Providing Care and Support for Children Living as AIDS Orphans in Township Communities in the Eastern Cape South Africa; A Cluster Analysis

Sharron Frood & Edward Purssell - International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences

This study used empirical data from health and social care professionals and cluster analysis to identify “barriers to” and “recommendations for” providing care and support to children living as AIDS orphans in township communities in Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa.

Family Reunification

Kathleen Stevenson - Nursing Management of Pediatric Disaster

Reunification of families after a large disaster can be a major concern if strategies to mitigate the issues have not been incorporated into local, regional, state, tribal, and federal planning for such an event.

Key Messages and Guidance to Prevent and Respond to COVID-19

Changing the Way We Care

This document features key messages including critical information about keeping children safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The messages are designed for use by country child protection actors, such as public child protection officers, directors of residential care facilities and government and civil society actors that work with vulnerable children and families.

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The longitudinal associations among perceived discrimination, social initiative, and depressive symptoms in Chinese rural left-behind adolescents

Jingxin Zhao, Qian Wang, Xiangjuan Xue - Journal of Adolescence

The current study used a longitudinal design to explore how perceived discrimination is associated with psychosocial functioning (i.e., depressive symptoms and social initiative) over time in Chinese rural left-behind adolescents.

Effects of the ‘Circle of Security’ Group Parenting Program (COS-P) With Foster Carers: An Observational Study

Govind Krishnamoorthy, Paula Hessing, Christel Middeldorp, William Bor - Children and Youth Services Review

This article presents a multi-site evaluation of a group delivery of the eight-week Circle of Security-Parent DVD program (COS-P) program to foster carers of 6-12 year-old children in an urban community as facilitated by community-based providers from a specialist child and youth mental health services.

Systematic literature review of foster and adoptive caregiver factors for increasing placement stability and permanency

Lori A. Vanderwill, Amy M. Salazar, Garrett Jenkins, Jessica De Larwelle, Amanda K. McMahon, Angelique Day, and Kevin Haggerty - Journal of Public Child Welfare

This study is a systematic review of the scholarly literature to better understand caregiver-related factors (e.g., characteristics, proficiencies) that contribute to permanency and placement stability, in order to provide a stronger foundation for developing and improving caregiver recruitment and training procedures.

Protected! Podcast Ep 2: Featuring Elissa Alhassrouny on Remote Adolescents Programming

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Elissa Alhassrouny, a child protection specialist with Plan International Lebanon, discusses how their team moved to remote child protection programming and the steps involved in that process.

Webinar Recording: Tackling COVID-19's Hidden Crisis: Violence Against Children

End Violence Partnership and the Office of the Special Representative to the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children (SRSG VAC)

This webinar brought together partners from over 130 countries around the world. At the event, participants were given a chance to hear about and discuss local, national and global perspectives of and responses to the COVID-19 crisis.