Together for Children: A Community's Journey

The Leher Team (Richa Nagaich, Tasha Koshi Kajol Menon, Nicole Rangel Menezes, and Nipa Bhansali)

In 2014, Leher partnered with Sarvo Prayas Sansthan (SPS) to develop and implement a community based preventive child protection initiative in the district of Madhubani in Bihar, India. This report presents the learning from that initiative.

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Gender-Based Violence and Violence Against Children: Prevention and Response Services in Uganda’s Refugee-Hosting Districts

Government of Uganda and World Bank

The Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) analysis includes a comprehensive mapping of services for GBV and VAC prevention and response across the key sectors of health, police, justice, and social services in refugee settlements and host communities.

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Adverse caregiving in early life: The trauma and deprivation distinction in young children

Katherine L. Guyon‐Harris, Kathryn L. Humphreys, Charles H. Zeanah - Infant Mental Health Journal

In this article, the authors highlight a framework distinguishing experiences of trauma from experiences of deprivation and use the examples of posttraumatic stress disorder and reactive attachment disorder to demonstrate how greater specificity in our understanding of early adverse caregiving can lead to more accurate and targeted diagnosis and treatment for young children.

My Journey into ‘Child Protection’ and Aboriginal Family Led Decision Making

Hannah McGlade - Australian Feminist Law Journal

This article documents the author's experiences with the state’s contemporary removal of Aboriginal children in Western Australia (WA) and the practice of Aboriginal Family Led Decision Making (AFLDM), a family led decision making process supported as best practice for Aboriginal families.

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the Drivers of HIV Status Knowledge in Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Mozambique

Allie Davis, Zola Allen, Nena do Nascimento, Jenifer Chapman, Rotafina Donco, Daan Velthausz - Global Health: Science and Practice

The authors of this study applied fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), based on 119 interviews, to identify the combinations of case management attributes that led to (1) increased knowledge of HIV status, and (2) high percentages of beneficiaries with known HIV status participating in a program that serves orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV and their families in Mozambique.

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