‘There are a Lot of Good Things that Come Out of it at the End’: Voices of Resilience in Youth Formerly in Foster Care During Emerging Adulthood

Kim Hokanson, Sarah Elizabeth Neville, Samantha Teixeira, Erin Singer, Stephanie Cosner Berzin - Child Welfare

This study uses interviews with 20 youth formerly in foster care who exhibit better-than-average outcomes to explore contextual aspects of resilience during emerging adulthood, elucidating how both relational and organizational support contribute to their resiliency.

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Webinar Recording: Protection of Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Alternative Care

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Better Care Network, UNICEF

The aim of this webinar was to elaborate on the Technical Note in support of child protection practitioners and government officials in their immediate response to the child protection concerns faced by children who are at risk of separation or in alternative care during COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 & Immigration Detention: What Can Governments and Other Stakeholders Do?

UN Network on Migration Working Group on Alternatives to Immigration Detention

The present document aims to provide practical guidance to States and other stakeholders in preventing and responding to COVID-19 in the context of immigration detention, including the detention of unaccompanied and separated children, highlighting instances of promising practices as useful models to draw from.

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A child for every family? Characterizations of “adoptable” foster children in online permanency advocacy publications

Kristina M. Scharp & Lindsey J. Thomas - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Framed by relational dialectics theory, a contrapuntal analysis of 104 photolistings examined the discursive tensions of what it means to be an “adoptable” child.

Mental Health Management Among Older Youth in Foster Care: Service Utilization and Preparedness

Michelle R. Munson, Colleen C. Katz, Nathanael J. Okpych, Mark E. Courtney - Journal of Adolescent Health

The aim of the study was to document mental health service use (counseling and medication) among youth in foster care, examine how prepared they feel to manage their mental health, and investigate predictors of service use and preparedness.

Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19 - United Nations Coordinated Appeal April-December 2020

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

The COVID-19 Global HRP is a joint effort by members of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), including UN, other international organizations and NGOs with a humanitarian mandate, to analyse and respond to the direct public health and indirect immediate humanitarian consequences of the pandemic, particularly on people in countries already facing other crises.

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Interim Guidance: Scaling-Up COVID-19 Outbreak Readiness and Response Operations in Humanitarian Situations Including Camps and Camp-Like Settings

IFRC, IOM, UNHCR, WHO

This Interim Guidance addresses specific needs and considerations required in humanitarian situations, including camps and camp-like settings and the surrounding host communities, in scaling-up readiness and response operations for the COVID-19 outbreak through effective multi-sectoral partnership.

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Stress Busters

Save the Children

Save the Children is sharing these drama-based relaxation exercises that are part of their global Healing and Education through the Arts (HEART) program for children living in stressful situations. 

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Ethical Considerations for Evidence Generation Involving Children on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gabrielle Berman - Innocenti

This paper identifies key ethical considerations when undertaking evidence generation involving children during the mitigation stage of the pandemic (emergency phase), on subject matter relating to COVID-19 once the pandemic has been contained, and once containment policy measures, including lockdowns, have been lifted (post-emergency phase).

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Анекс към техническата бележка на Междуведомствената работна група относно ЗАКРИЛА НА ДЕЦАТА ПО ВРЕМЕ НА ПАНДЕМИЯТА КОВИД -19: ДЕЦА И АЛТЕРНАТИВНА ГРИЖА

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

Този придружаващ документ към Техническата бележка на Междуведомствената работна група относно Закрила на детето по време на пандемията КОВИД -19: Деца и алтернативна грижа Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Alternative Care предоставя полезни съвети за насърчаване участието на всички заинтересовани страни, което е от ключово значение, за да не бъдат прекъснати услугите за деца.

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ЗАКРИЛА ЗА ДЕЦАТА ПО ВРЕМЕ НА ПАНДЕМИЯТА ОТ КОВИД-19: Деца в алтернативна грижа

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

Целта на тази „Специализирана информация“ е да подпомогне работещите в сферата на закрила на детето и правителствените служители в незабавния им отговор на проблемите, пред които се изправят децата, които са в риск от разделяне със семейството или в алтернативна грижа по време на пандемията от Ковид-19.

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Child Welfare Approach in Iran

Marzieh Takaffoli, Maliheh Arshi, Meroe Vameghi, & Mir Taher Mousavi - Children and Youth Services Review

This study aimed to determine the approach to child welfare in Iran by reviewing Iran’s laws and macro policies, and analysing them to provide an explicit and comprehensive definition for child welfare.

Inequalities in educational outcomes in individuals with childhood experience of out-of-home care: What are driving the differences?

Lars Brännström, Hilma Forsman, Bo Vinnerljung, Ylva B. Almquist - PLoS ONE

In order to be better equipped to design interventions aimed at improving the educational outcomes of children for whom society has assumed responsibility, this study seeks to further our understanding about which factors that contribute to the educational disparities throughout the life course.

Statement by the Consortium for Street Children during the Human Rights Council Virtual Informal Conversation with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Consortium for Street Children

In this statement, the Consortium for Street Children calls on all UN Members States to take three steps for children in street situations during this pandemic.

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