This page from the Early Childhood Development Action Network website provides a list of resources on caring for children during the COVID-19 pandemic, aimed at parents, early childhood workers, educators, administrators, child protection practitioners and others.
This framework represents Save the Children’s planning assumptions and priority areas for implementation over four phases of programming: Preparedness, Initial Response, Large-Scare Response, and Recovery.
This guidance note details the four priority areas that case management agencies will need to focus on in the coming days and months during COVID-19 for child protection.
This report examines (1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data on apprehended family unit members; the extent to which (2) CBP and (3) the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) developed and implemented policies and procedures for processing family units; and (4) how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) share information about unaccompanied alien children (UAC).
El presente folleto incluye información para preparar a los niños y niñas para que regresen a sus hogares o ingresen a servicios de atención basados en una familia sustituta.
An event was held in 2017 to explore child-data gaps and why they exist; how such gaps relate to the United Nation’s promise to “leave no one behind”, and what practical steps can be taken to break down barriers to ensure that children are included and benefit from the commitments made in the Sustainable Development Goals. This report summarises the outcomes of the event and proposes next steps.
This article presents a tentative analysis of 30 years of academic research in the field of children’s rights and migration (1989–2019).
This handout includes information for preparing children to return home or to move to alternative family-based care services.
Este informe presenta información sobre el problema de institucionalización de niños en América Latina y el Caribe.
El presente documento de protección está destinado a guiar las acciones de las instituciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales de Ecuador, en su respuesta humanitaria para la protección de los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes ecuatorianos y sus familias, afectadas por el terremoto ocurrido en fecha 16 de Abril del 2016.
In this article, Patricia O'Rourke describes the way in which she applies psychodrama in her therapeutic reunification work with parents and babies in the child protection system in Australia.
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of orphans and vulnerable children’s parents/guardians about the effectiveness of Future Families’ children programme in Olievenhoutbosch as a way to explore how much they are involved in the process of designing the programme activities and if they perceive the programme as effective in responding to their family needs.
This review aims to provide social workers with a resource to guide their decision‐making by evaluating both the benefits and risks associated with open adoption.
In this study, the social network assessment instrument (Blakeslee, 2015) was used to better understand the support networks of youth participants in a college-readiness program aimed at increasing graduation rates and post-secondary transitions for youth in foster care.
The purpose of the present study was to examine how maltreatment chronicity and coping style were associated with internalizing, externalizing, and psychiatric hospitalizations, and whether coping style moderated the relation between maltreatment chronicity and mental health in a sample of foster adolescents.
This presentation explores the structures and programs one university system is creating for college students emerging from foster care (SEFC).
This presentation will begin in the form of a story—a story of a real, in the human flesh person who came into the foster care system as a victim of abuse and neglect and left as a college graduate and continued her success as a social worker, child advocate, Statewide Youth Advisory Board Coordinator, and educator.
This study investigates tensions between stated goals and experiences of foster care, from the perspective of (formerly) fostered youth.
The authors of this study conducted a randomized controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of a parent group training tailored to the special needs of foster families.
This presentation will offer practical approaches to navigating systems in order to provide a consistent continuum of care for children involved in the foster care system.
The present study of children’s caregivers involved in child welfare examined the factors associated with their receiving services for substance use.
This book brings together knowledge of how modern countries in Europe and the United States deal with the issue of errors and mistakes in child protection in a cross-national perspective.
This document includes protocols, procedures and guidelines for anyone within Save the Children South Africa to prevent and respond to child protection concerns when they arise.
This article summarizes the situation of unaccompanied child (UAC) refugees in Greece in 2017/2018.
