This accompanying document to the Inter-agency Technical Note on the Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Alternative Care provides helpful tips to promote the engagement and participation of all stakeholders, which is central to maintaining continuity of services for children.
This one-page document from World Vision outlines how cash and voucher programming (CVP) can be used to support vulnerable families in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This document features mental health and psychosocial support messages developed by Hong Kong Red Cross for families, friends, colleagues of those in quarantine or self-isolation.
The considerations presented in this document have been developed by the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Use as a series of messages that can be used in communications to support mental and psychosocial well-being in different target groups, including carers of children, during the outbreak.
On this webpage, UNICEF answers some common questions that parents may have about the novel coronavirus, including how to talk about the coronavirus with children.
This webpage of the World Health Organization (WHO) website provides information about the coronavirus pandemic, including basic protective measures, and a number of simple infographics available for download.
The aim of this Technical Note is to support 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 the COVID-19 pandemic.
Based on existing published and grey literature, the authors of this paper document nine main (direct and indirect) pathways linking pandemics and violence against women and children (VAW/C). The paper is aimed to be used by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to help inform further evidence generation and policy action while situating VAW/C within the broader need for intersectional gender- and feminist-informed pandemic response.
The series of messages in this guidance aim at addressing the specific issues of persons deprived of their liberty during the COVID-19 pandemic, including children, with the responsible services and ministries.
This webinar brought together key global agencies including WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, LEGO Foundation, ARNEC and other partners to discuss early childhood development during the COVID-19 crisis.
This brief comment from the Lancet stresses the need for sensitive and effective communication about COVID-19 for children.
On this webpage, Save the Children shares drama-based relaxation exercises that are part of their global Healing and Education through the Arts (HEART) program for children living in stressful situations.
In this blog post, Anna Riatti - coordinator of the UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Response in Italy - describes how UNICEF is supporting refugee and migrant children in Italy in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
This guidance is to support the management of children and young people living in children's homes, residential special schools and colleges, and other residential facilities during the COVID-19 crisis.
Este informe presenta detalles de talleres para favorecer el desarrollo y adquisición de conocimientos, habilidades y destrezas para lograr una adecuada intervención psicosocial en las poblaciones afectadas por el terremoto/maremoto.
Este informe se detalla la propuesta metodológica para otorgar espacios seguros para que los servidores públicos que han atendido a los damnificados por una tragedia en Guatemala puedan descargarse emocionalmente y poner en práctica técnicas de autocuido.
In this study, the authors examined (a) whether institutional rearing is associated with continued social communication (SC) deficits into adolescence; (b) whether early placement into foster care mitigates risk for SC problems; and (c) associations between SC and psychopathology from middle childhood (age 8) to adolescence (age 16).
This study describes the community-based needs of parents with psychiatric disabilities who experienced legal challenges to their parenting rights.
This second of a two-part paper discusses stage two of a two-stage, transatlantic study aimed at identifying and exploring threshold concepts in residential child care.
The goal of this study is to analyze the profile of 353 adolescents in TRC in Spain.
The aim of this study is to explore the experiences of former unaccompanied refugee children and unaccompanied refugee children, their carers and social workers with regard to the foster placement.
These additional considerations are intended to provide guidance for a range of child care programs that remain open, and should be used in conjunction with CDC’s guidance for administrators of child care programs and K-12 schools.
"In this time of profound uncertainty, child welfare systems face unprecedented challenges to ensuring safety, well-being, and permanency for young people," says this joint statement.
This comment from the Lancet explores the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on children in temporary accommodation in the UK.
This paper offers some insight into the benefits, impacts and challenges of the ‘creative mentor’ role. It links to a social pedagogy framework, supporting practice, and draws on creative mentors’ work with children and young people living in care. It aims to inform professionals and teams around a child about the transforming nature of working with creativity – beyond the obvious external experiences.
