A urgência em prevenir e responder a todas as formas de violência contra as crianças nunca foi tão grande. Todos os anos, mais de mil milhões de crianças são vítimas de violência, com um impacto económico estimado em 7 bilhões de dólares.1
La necesidad urgente de prevenir y responder a todas las formas de violencia contra la infancia nunca ha sido mayor.
Il n’a jamais été aussi urgent de prévenir et de combattre toutes les formes de violence contre les enfants.
The Child Protection System Strengthening Framework for Action was launched at the first Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children on 8 November 2024. This framework aims to strengthen child protection systems globally by promoting a cohesive approach to preventing and responding to violence against children in all contexts.
This episode of the Helping Children Worldwide podcast provides a deep dive into the complexities and triumphs of reintegrating children into family environments in Sierra Leone and beyond.
Case studies from the Global South provide insights on how to effectively support children who have experienced violence.
This study was conducted by Family Care First (FCF), to enhance the understanding of common practices of kinship and foster care in Cambodia and identify gaps and good practices that are scalable to promote quality options for family based alternative care programs. FCF is a network of global organizations working together to support children to live in safe, nurturing family-based care.
The objective of this study is to document lessons learned from Family Care First (FCF) | Responsive and Effective Child Welfare System Transformation (REACT) members in Cambodia, as well as the literature from others working on transition globally, to create evidence-based recommendations to inform future transitions and closure of residential care institutions in Cambodia at scale.
Researching the factors contributing to the separation of children from their families is particularly challenging due to the overrepresentation of higher-income countries in existing literature and the influence of both the objective capacity and subjective perspectives of those recording the reasons for children’s admission to alternative care. This makes it difficult to consistently understand and document the phenomenon.
To address this challenge, the report integrates key findings from a systematic literature review of global research, and it introduces new data from country studies across various income levels, filling gaps in current research to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the factors contributing to family separation and ways to prevent it.
In this report, SOS Children's Villages and partners from 10 academic institutions from around the world, have researched the phenomenon of child-family separation and what can be done to prevent it. This research tries to fill a global gap of information regarding middle and low-income countries, the contexts of which are not well understood.
This year's report provides a snapshot of the key trends and promising initiatives shaping the social service workforce. It zeroes in on a particularly important issue: the critical role that the workforce plays in ensuring children can always benefit from safe and stable family care—whether that be in their own family or through family-based alternative care, when needed.
Bune Practici de Asistență Parentală Profesionistă pentru Copiii cu Nevoi Complexe: Rezultatele analizei preliminare a literaturii de specialitate pentru pregătirea proiectului pilot privind asistența parentală profesionistă specializată în Republica Moldova rezumă cele mai bune practici internaționale în domeniul asistenței parentale profesioniste specializate, și oferă perspective și recomandări esențiale pentru dezvoltarea și extinderea asistenței parentale profesioniste specializate în Republica Moldova.
This report summarizes international best practices of specialized foster care and provides critical insights and recommendations for developing and scaling specialized foster care in Moldova.
The 2023 assessment of Diocesan Family Life Departments (FLDs) in Kenya, conducted by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) in collaboration with Changing the Way We Care℠ (CTWWC), highlights the Church’s critical role in advancing care reform and supporting families.
In 2023, the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) conducted a Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) survey, in partnership with Changing the Way We Care℠ (CTWWC), to assess the readiness of Catholic church leadership and workers in Charitable Children’s Institutions (CCIs) for ca
This study aimed to gather data on Catholic Church Children’s Charitable Institutions (CCI) operations in Kenya, the children they serve, and the challenges they face, to inform future care reform strategies.
Guatemala, con una población en aumento que proyecta alcanzar los 17.8 millones de habitantes para 2024, enfrenta serios desafíos sociales y económicos, especialmente en áreas vulnerables como el municipio de Zacapa.
The Changing the Way We Care℠ (CTWWC) Life of the Award Report highlights the initiative’s global efforts to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. Since 2018, CTWWC has been driving care reform in countries like Guatemala, Kenya, and Moldova, while supporting smaller projects in Haiti and India.
Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond, Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism, presented her report "Children with albinism and the right to family life" during the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on 21 October, 2024.
This thematic brief helps government policy and decision-makers understand the essential role of the social service workforce and how to strengthen that workforce in line with their national commitments to care reform and regional and global conventions. It includes high level guidance, recommendations and practical examples from diverse contexts for consideration when developing, supporting and strengthening the social service workforce.
"We cannot do this work alone. The church in the United States of America has led the charge globally to provide solutions to children that no one was willing to care for," says Philip Aspegren, the co-executive director of Casa Viva.
The India Alternative Care Network hosted this webinar on kinship care in Africa on October 1, 2024.
This IOM report reveals that there are more than 700,000 people currently displaced within Haiti, 52% of whom are children. Haiti is experiencing an unprecedented crisis that has affected the entire population, including the many orphanages operating there.
“When we approach the family holistically and we use case management tools in matching challenges and problems of the family with the available tools then this will benefit the child,” Roman Zhukovskyi, World Bank Social Protection Specialist, shares learnings regarding the importance of social protection to enable care reform and the role of case management in ensuring effective social protection.
In this workshop panelists explored UNICEF's Data and Analytics Section's protocols and tools for gathering data on children in residential care.
This briefing book, prepared by the Inter-Parliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking, serves as a practical guide for legislators on how to--through a combination of global partnerships and domestic action--work together to educate, advocate and legislate to end orphanage trafficking.
Каждый ребенок имеет право расти в способствующей развитию семейной среде.
This UNICEF policy brief finds that an estimated 203 children for every 100,000 children live in residential care across Central Asia – almost double the global average of 105 per 100,000. In this brief, UNICEF proposes seven policy recommendations to facilitate the closure of large-scale institutions and transition to family-based alternatives to institutional care in Central Asia.
This UNICEF publication presents the first-ever global and regional estimates of sexual violence against children. It narrates through numbers the tragic reality of sexual violence, amplifying victims’ voices.
This webinar looked at case management for preventing family separation in Kenya, exploring the role that case management can play in prevention and the tools and strategies for effective case management with vulnerable families.
This paper addresses the consequences of child-parent separation at the U.S. southern border and offers suggestions for supporting these families including child-parent psychotherapy.
This study examined the categories that states use to classify and govern migrants. Unaccompanied minors and adult asylum seekers are treated very differently regarding their asylum cases and residence permits. The study focused on Germany, where the courts and youth welfare offices commission age assessments to decide whether young migrants will be considered minors or adults. These assessments are carried out by forensic medical examiners and social workers, respectively, who work with very different understandings of what constitutes age.
The objective of this study was to identify additional mental and neurodevelopmental health needs of Aboriginal children born in Western Australia, who are placed in out-of-home care (OOHC), relative to Aboriginal children born in Western Australia who were not placed.
This study explores Ukrainian responses to internally displaced people during the first and second waves of war-induced displacement and internal migration in Ukraine, which took place after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and after the full-scale invasion of 2022. It also addresses the unique challenges faced by Ukrainian social work professionals in supporting displaced people, service people and their families, disabled veterans, and orphaned children as the war continues and also for resettlement in a post-war context.
This paper explores the involvement of children in discharge of care applications and the tensions children’s guardians and other stakeholders may face when aiming to both uphold children’s rights to participate and their right to protection from harm.
This article explores the opportunities social workers have to involve care-experienced individuals in participatory training and academic opportunities by sharing the stories of two young women with care experience who were attending the University of Rome.
This commentary discusses the limitations of the current Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research and the need to also consider social and methodological aspects of adversity. The importance of considering protective factors is also discussed.
This study explores the role that transitional centers in Armenia play in the transitioning process of leaving institutional care and entering independent adulthood.
This U.S.-based study aimed to get recommendations from stakeholders with lived and/or professional experience in foster care to understand how to increase participation in research and how to capture a broader representation of those impacted.
This article addresses the complex dynamics surrounding unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK.
This study aimed to investigate the direct impact of perceived social support, basic need services, and Psychological Capital on the mental health of children in childcare settings in Ethiopia.
This article explores the journey of foster care in India from 2010 to 2024 as an analysis and commentary on the substantive changes between the foster care 2016 model guidelines and the newly released foster care 2024 guidelines.
This study aims to examine how parental substance use affects outcomes of Australian children in out-of-home care, adjusting for key demographic, social and system factors.
This South Africa-based paper aims to provide practice guidelines for leaving care that would be useful in real-world settings.
The aim of this review is to articulate the key mechanisms through which shared decision-making meetings can work to help keep children safely out of care and at home. Data from the literature was supplemented with consultation to ensure relevance to the UK setting.
This article provides a unique comparison of four non-professional stakeholder groups involved with dependency courts overseeing child protective services cases in the state of Maryland in the United States.
This qualitative study of cluster foster parents in Mpumalanga, South Africa, revealed that they are faced with extreme challenges such as lack of support, knowledge, and limitation of resources in fostering children with special needs.
This paper is based on a qualitative study that collected data from 24 caregivers working at four childcare institutions in Harare, Zimbabwe. Findings from the study revealed that challenges experienced by caregivers include high caseloads and lack of resources, regulations which do not promote proper child development, inadequate training for caregivers, and nonexistence of a representative body for caregivers and the existence of multiple reporting systems for children.
This scoping review identified and synthesized evidence from studies across the globe examining adult justice system contact among individuals who have experienced child protection system involvement (including placement in out-of-home care [OOHC]).
