FEANTSA calls for public authorities at local, regional, national and European level to take these seven measures to protect homeless people and public health.

This resource from the Consortium for Street Children aims to answer the questions of those who work with street-connected children in light of the COVID-19 crisis.

This guide aims to help parents and families of children who are looked after in the care system during the Coronavirus outbreak.

This Comment will propose a theoretical international criminal law response to the family separation that occurred in summer 2018.

This guide summarizes findings from relevant literature on what helps emerging adults (including youth transitioning from foster care) succeed, describes examples of how US communities are innovating to meet those needs, and shares key takeaways from interviews with emerging adults.

This multilevel meta-analysis compared the outcomes of Treatment Foster Care Oregon for Adolescents (TFCO-A) and home-based treatment programs (HBT) with residential youth care for children and youth aged 0 to 23 years.

The aims of this article were to identify the types and characteristics of social support for families in vulnerable situations and to analyze what elements influence families’ attitudes towards these supports.

This chapter describes and proposes a new social inclusion model for supporting unaccompanied minors in becoming autonomous, as they are one of the most vulnerable groups of contemporary migration flows.

This study addresses the ethnic identity of transculturally placed adolescent foster youth with ethnic minority backgrounds in The Netherlands. The authors conducted qualitative interviews to provide insight into the lifeworlds of twenty foster youth. They found that constructing an ethnic identity was complex for these ethnic minority foster youth.

This brief report describes social media-based advertising strategies employed to recruit an anonymous sample of young adults who had recently aged out of foster care to participate in an online survey.

This study examines the psychosocial impact of rural-to-urban migration on youth in China, a fast-urbanizing country with 268 million rural migrant workers and 103 million migrant youth. Using data from 2012 China Family Panel Studies (n = 2084, age 10–15), this study examines psychosocial disparities (depressive symptoms, social relationships, and future aspirations) among youth migrated with parents, youth left behind by migrant parents, and their peers.

This paper attempts to determine socio-economic structure of female labor migrants from Tanahun District of Gandaki Province, Nepal. Similarly, it also attempts to analyze the causes of female migration, process and dynamics of foreign labor migration and its impact on the left behind family specially children and elder citizens at home.

The present research contains two studies: in Study 1 the authors compared prosocial behavior between emerging adults with left-behind experience (EA-LB) and their non-left-behind counterparts; in Study 2, the authors, adopting a sub-sample of Study 1, examined the direct and interactive effects of parental autonomy support, mindfulness, and gender on prosocial behavior in EA-LB.

In this study conducted over a couple of years, the authors design and develop a digital hub deployed to serve children living on the streets in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

Through an online study, the authors of this paper explored the links between familial (parents/grandparents) Indian Residential School (IRS) attendance and subsequent involvement in the child welfare system (CWS) in a non-representative sample of Indigenous adults in Canada born during the Sixties Scoop era.

Analyzing how a public health approach helps to fill these gaps, this paper presents a systematic, conceptual and practical case for incorporating a public health approach in the measurement of and programming for separation of children in humanitarian settings.

Significant anecdotal evidence suggests that other countries across Europe also make a considerable contribution to the supply chain of people, money and resources that continue to sustain and foster the orphanage industry worldwide. This report seeks to map the contribution of the three countries in Europe with the largest volunteer travel markets: The United Kingdom, Germany and France.

This webpage from the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children features resources to protect children, protect yourself, and stay informed of the latest information on COVID-19. 

Esta página de Plataforma de Infancia presenta una selección de los artículos o recursos educativos que han identificado hasta ahora y que pueden facilitar la tarea de hablar con niñas y niños sobre el coronavirus y resolver sus dudas.

The Alliance of Child Protection in Humanitarian Action with UNHCR hosted a webinar to explore the key considerations for adapting child protection responses in refugee settings to the current pandemic, including broader protection considerations. 

This document is a repository of resources focusing on Covid-19, disability, mental health, chronic health conditions and related topics curated by the International Disability and Development Consortium Inclusive Health Task Group (IDDC IHTG) and the CORE Group Disability Inclusive Health Technical Advisory Group.

In this short video, Richard Weissbourd, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, shares ideas about how adults can talk to children about the coronavirus.

Save the Children Italy has launched an extraordinary intervention program for children and adolescents involved in their projects. The program aims to be a valid support for vulnerable minors and their families. 

This guidance provides an overview of the risks associated with COVID-19 outbreak that could cause children to be left without appropriate parental care, and provides scenarios for where children may be identified as separated in Iraq due to issues related to COVID-19.

In this webinar, veteran online instructors help identify steps to move online and strategies for adapting the lessons already in motion to this new format.