In this video, One Sky Foundation share some of their work in Thailand supporting children from disadvantaged families to stay in education.

This animated video from Alternative Care Thailand tells the story of a boy in Thailand who is sent to live in an orphanage because his mother feels she is unable to care for him at home, his experiences with volunteers once he arrives at the orphanage, and how the orphanage transitioned to supporting children to live in families.

This preliminary technical note from UNICEF, ILO, and UN Women offers (interim) recommendations for employers to mitigate the negative consequences stemming from COVID-19.

This guidance note is intended to support child guidance for remote child protection case management, including the key child protection principles of survival and development, non-discrimination and inclusion, child participation, and the best interest of the child.

This document outlines some of the potential risks children face in Interim Care Centres and suggests how to manage them to ensure that children are as safe as possible.

In this first episode of a new special series on child development and COVID-19, Center Director Dr. Jack Shonkoff and host Sally Pfitzer discuss how to support healthy child development during a pandemic, including the importance of caring for caregivers.

In this correspondence in the Lancet, the authors express their concerns regarding children in residential institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic and urge authorities to undertake carefully planned measures with respect to deinstitutionalisation.

This Guideline aims to further provide technical guidance to child protection workers in Cambodia to better respond to the child protection risks during a COVID-19 pandemic through case management, including psychosocial support.

This internal case management guidance aims to provide initial support to child protection staff and partners to adapt their case management programming within the contagious environment of COVID-19.

A coalition of six disability rights organisations has launched a major international monitoring initiative entitled “COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor” to conduct rapid independent monitoring of state measures concerning persons with disabilities. 

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the impact of parental migration on the welfare of left-behind children in the Philippines so that policies can be devised to support them.

This article describes the empirical results of perspectives and experiences of 11 parents’ engagement in child protection assessment practice through in-depth semi-structured interviews in one county in North Estonia.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychosocial problems of orphan children in public primary schools in Ethiopia.

This foundational chapter attempts to provide readers with content to assist in their understanding of the characteristics, role, and experiences of kinship elderly caregivers of children affected and/or infected by HIV and AIDS.

This paper examines the efficacy of extended family system in OVC care and support in the Gutu District of Zimbabwe.

This study assesses whether sex of the caregiver is associated with HIV status of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) as a valuable strategy for enhanced pediatric case findings.

This chapter focuses on the U.S. as the nation with the largest number of adoptions. Although adoptions represent a small portion of family growth, from a demographer’s point of view they are worth investigating.

The research objective is to understand the development of collaboration in relation to the multiple issues that influence the educational attainment of youth in out-of-home care.

The authors of this article contend that the government of Zimbabwe adopted traditional practices of child welfare in its National Orphan Care Policy, yet it did not also bring the apparatus (Ubuntu) which made the traditional practices successful in traditional society.

To ensure that the well-being of the most vulnerable children are not compromised, Joining Forces Bangladesh appeals to the Government of Bangladesh, international communities, business sector, and media and civil society to take the measures outlined in this joint appeal. 

This study addressed three research questions: (1) What are ACE totals in this sample of foster parents and how do they compare with the original CDC-Kaiser study? (2) Does foster parents’ ACE exposure relate to foster child behavior? (3) Is the relation between foster parents’ ACEs and children’s challenging behaviors different based on the specific ACE?

This paper reports findings from an innovative arts-based intervention with Looked After Children and young people and concludes that holding competing value sets in creative tension is central to the success of the programme in helping young people to cope with and contest social harm.

This study aims at identifying characteristics of foster children, foster parents and foster placements associated with low satisfaction and high support needs.

This paper explores the experiences of Victorian foster and kinship carers accessing timely health assessment and ongoing healthcare for a child placed in their care; identifying barriers and enablers.

This qualitative study utilized the experiential voices of current and former youth in foster care, caregivers, and agency staff to broaden the understanding of the needs of youth with foster care histories, as well as provide a contextual lens for exploring potential risk factors leading to homelessness.