Raport 3: Evaluarea situației prestării serviciilor sociale - Destinate copiilor şi familiilor vulnerabile

Changing the Way We Care

Scopul studiului este de a cunoaște situația actuală a serviciilor sociale axate pe
consolidarea capacității familiei de a asigura un mediu sigur, stabil și afectuos pentru
copii, precum și a serviciilor destinate copiilor care au nevoie de sau se află în îngrijire
alternativă și în proces de reintegrare, pentru a putea formula recomandări care să
contribuie la decizii bazate pe evidențe în îmbunătățirea acestora.

Raport 2: Evaluarea situației privind formarea profesională inițială și continuă a personalului din domeniul protecției copilului și familiei în Republica Moldova

Changing the Way We Care

Scopul evaluării sistemului de formare profesională inițială și continuă a personalului din
domeniul protecției copilului și familiei din Republica Moldova este de a contribui la
consolidarea acestuia în baza celor recente dezvoltări programatice, legislative și
metodologice la nivel național și internațional, cât și să contribuie efectiv la sporirea
calității prestării serviciilor pentru copiii și familiile vulnerabile prin creșetrea
competențelor profesioniștilor din sistem.

Standard Operating Procedures for Case Conferencing

Changing the Way We Care

The purpose of this Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is to provide a standard and consistent approach to case conferencing as part of a comprehensive case management approach utilized during decision-making processes for children. The SOPs should be utilized by institutions (e.g. Charitable Children’s Institutions, or CCIs) and organizations as well as other actors engaged in decision-making around children’s care and protection.

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Changing the Way We Care: Year Two Annual Report Summary

Changing the Way We Care

Launched on October 1, 2018, the CTWWC initiative is organized around three main strategic objectives: (1) Governments promote family care; (2) Children stay in or return to safe and nurturing families; and (3) Key stakeholders make meaningful commitments toward family care. The second year of the initiative is summarized in this report of progress.

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Towards Ending Child Marriage Global: Trends and Profiles of Progress

UNICEF

The analysis presented in this report looks at historical trends in child marriage, with a focus on selected countries that have recorded significant declines in child marriage prevalence. It offers an overview of changes in the practice together with a review of other shifts that have occurred in these countries in terms of girls’ access to education and employment opportunities, as well as economic development and poverty reduction.

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The Lived Realities of Left-Behind Children in Mainland China: Life and Values Education in the Home and at School

Xia Ao, Carla Briffett Akta - Department of International Education, The Education University of Hong Kong

Left-behind children (LBC) are a social and educational concern in China. Researchers have identified psychological and behavioural effects on LBC. This study creates a profile of LBC in rural Sichuan and identifies life and values education (LVE) as a beneficial intervention.

Protecting Unaccompanied Children in a Changing World: Strengthening Family-based Care in Refugee Contexts

Lumos

Lumos worked together with partners on the family-based care for unaccompanied children project between 2018 and 2020, in four camps in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. This evaluation report considers the various components of the project and provides recommendations to child protection and refugee response practitioners, with the aim of improving the quality of child protection programming and its impact on unaccompanied children in refugee contexts.

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Too Many Teens: Preventing Unnecessary Out-of-Home Placements

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

The child welfare system was created to care for abused and neglected children. But too often, teenagers are landing in the system because they simply aren’t getting along with their parents. This paper traces Casey’s efforts to learn from communities that are preventing teens from landing in the system by helping families while the teen remains at home. A survey of the states, interviews with experts, secondary research and visits to several communities show common elements of successful programs.The paper presents information on related laws and policies, funding sources and programs for families while including the infrastructure and services needed to support such initiatives.

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Presentations: Meeting on Translating Research Evidence Into Action

Know-How Center Bulgaria, Children and Family Initiative, and Changing the Way We Care

These presentations from Know-How Center Bulgaria, Children and Family Initiative, and Changing the Way We Care, were delivered during the September 30, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was translating research evidence into action. 

Presentations: Meeting on Child and Family Outcome Measurement

Hope and Homes for Children, Miracle Foundation and Railway Children

These presentations from Hope and Homes for Children, Miracle Foundation and Railway Children were delivered during the August 20, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was child and family outcome measurement.

Presentations: Meeting on Care Measurement Initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa and Thailand

Alternative Care Thailand, UNICEF

These presentations from UNICEF and Alternative Care Thailand were delivered during the July 9, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was on care measurement initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa and Thailand.

My Hero is You 2021: How Kids Can Hope with COVID-19

Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings

The book aims to help children stay hopeful and positive during the COVID-19 pandemic. The story is a sequel to ‘My Hero is You: how kids can fight COVID-19!’, published in April 2020. 

Both books have been released by a collaboration of 60 organizations working in the humanitarian sector, including the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the MHPSS  Collaborative for Children & Families in Adversity.

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Family Engagement: Partnering With Families to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes

Child Welfare Information Gateway

Engaging families in the casework process promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families in the child welfare system and is central to successful practice. Effective family engagement occurs when child welfare practitioners actively collaborate and partner with the family network, including maternal and paternal relatives and fictive kin, throughout their involvement with the child welfare system and recognizing them as the experts on their respective situations. This bulletin for professionals provides an overview of the foundational elements of the family engagement approach, followed by strategies and promising practices for implementing it.

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¿Cómo hacer más efectiva la protección a la unidad familiar y la reunificación familiar en situaciones de movilidad humana y movimientos mixtos, y en contexto de pandemia?

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

la Comisión Interamericana presenta la guía ¿Cómo hacer más
efectiva la protección a la unidad familiar y reunificar a la familia en los procedimientos migratorios y de protección en contexto de pandemia? en la que
se analizan los estándares interamericanos aplicables a la luz de las obligaciones
internacionales de los Estados y propone recomendaciones para garantizar la unidad
familiar y la reunificación familiar así como prevenir los riesgos de separación y minimizar los impactos en los casos de separación familiar. Asimismo, la implementación
de las garantías de la reunificación familiar requiere muchas veces de una estrategia idónea de acceso a mecanismos de regularización documental, así como de condiciones seguras de viaje y movilidad a través de las fronteras nacionales. Esto es especialmente benéfico para familias que se han visto separadas de manera forzada o por
razones asociadas a la movilidad humana.

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How Can Family Unit Protection and Family Reunification be Made More Effective in Situations of Human Mobility and Mixed Movements, and in the Context of the Pandemic?

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

he Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued, in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), a practical guide on how to protect family unity and reunification more effectively in human mobility and mixed movement contexts during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This publication is part of a series of guides issued by the IACHR to address the impact of the pandemic on human rights. The guide makes recommendations to States, so they may protect family unity, prevent separation, and take any necessary measures to ensure the reunification of families who may have been separated in contexts associated with human mobility.

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Global Minimum Estimates of Children Affected by COVID-19-Associated Orphanhood and Deaths of Caregivers: A Modelling Study

Lancet

Because most COVID-19 deaths occur among adults, not children, attention has been focused, understandably, on adults. However, a tragic consequence of high numbers of adult deaths is that high numbers of children might lose their parents and caregivers to COVID-19, as occurred during the HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and 1918 influenza epidemics. The goal of this report is to shine a bright light on this urgent and overlooked consequence that is harmful for children.

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