COVID-19 Global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SRP)

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

This appeal seeks to respond to additional needs which have emerged, or may do so in the short and medium term, in national contexts currently affected by humanitarian situations, as well as those that present more stable environments yet are equally vulnerable to the global pandemic, due to ill-prepared health systems and assistance mechanisms to respond at scale.

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IOM Responds to Covid-19

International Organization for Migration

This webpage from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) website features resources on COVID-19 and migration, including IOM's COVID-19 Global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SRP).

Approaches to Programming to engage all stakeholders during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

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.

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Mental health and psychosocial considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak

World Health Organization (WHO)

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.

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Technical Note on the Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Alternative Care

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

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.

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Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children

Amber Peterman, Alina Potts, Megan O'Donnell, Kelly Thompson, Niyati Shah, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and Nicole van Gelder - Center for Global Development

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.

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Para Reconstruir la Vida de los Niños y Niñas: Guía para apoyar intervenciones psicosociales en Emergencias y Desastres

UNICEF

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.

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Social communication deficits following early‐life deprivation and relation to psychopathology: a randomized clinical trial of foster care

Mark Wade, Charles H. Zeanah, Nathan A. Fox, Charles A. Nelson - The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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).

Perceived community-based needs of low-income parents with psychiatric disabilities who experienced legal challenges to their parenting rights

Robyn M. Powell, Monika Mitra, Joanne Nicholson, Susan L. Parish - Children and Youth Services Review

This study describes the community-based needs of parents with psychiatric disabilities who experienced legal challenges to their parenting rights.

‘It can never be as perfect as home’: An explorative study into the fostering experiences of unaccompanied refugee children, their foster carers and social workers

Jet Rip, Elianne Zijlstra, Wendy Post, Margrite Kalverboer, Erik J. Knorth - Children and Youth Services Review

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.