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This presentation was given at the ISPCAN Conference in Bucharest, Romania in September 2015.
The presentation reviews similarities and differences in national care reform efforts in the Eastern Europe region, highlights the main care-related issues in the region 25 years ago, describes the reforms and improvements made in the region as well as the challenges and responses to reforms, and provides recommendations for the way forward.
On July 28, 2015, the CPC Learning Network hosted a webinar featuring Joanna Wakia, Monitoring and Research Advisor at Retrak, Charles Gwengwe, Executive Director at Chisomo Children’s Club, and Mr. McKnight Kalanda, Director of Child Affairs in the Malawi Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability, and Social Welfare.
Very little evidence exists about the numbers of children living and working on the streets globally, undermining efforts to ensure they receive adequate and appropriate care. In order to inform policy and practice in Malawi, Retrak,…
On June 29, 2015, the CPC Learning Network hosted a webinar featuring Dr. Sarah Meyer, Associate Director of Research at the AfriChild Centre of Excellence for the Study of the African Child, and Gita Swamy Meier-Ewert, Senior Planning and Monitoring Specialist at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This webinar focused on the experience of developing, piloting and refining a child protection index, designed to assess the strength of the child protection system in humanitarian settings.
CP MERG hosted a webinar on 27 May 2015 entitled “Evaluating Protection and Psychosocial Support in the Context of Humanitarian Settings” and now the webinar recording and powerpoint presentations are available on the CP MERG website, http://www.cpmerg.org/webinars/. Click here for the recording of the webinar.
- Powerpoint presentation by Francesca Bonino: Evaluating Protection in Humanitarian Action - 4 Challenge Areas and Emerging Guidance…
Virtual Philanthropy is a guided tour for nonprofits looking to understand the steps they should take in order to get in front of, and eventually get funding from, foundations and donors. The tour guides here are various members of the philanthropic sector, from individual donors to gatekeepers of funds.
Each podcast has a different member of philanthropy explaining in detail how they can be found, what they want to hear and see, and finally what moves an organization from consideration to partnership. Throughout the podcast, guests offer vital advice both specifically to their own…
This Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) provides an overview of the necessary elements to safely transition children from institutions to families and family-like care settings.
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Develop a high-level programme that safely and effectively transforms care of children in institutions
- Contribute to the safe and effective planning of a high-level programme of transforming care for children in institutions
- Explain the harm done by institutions to children's development, safety and wellbeing…
This Guide and Toolkit outlines why a community-led approach is needed and how to start putting it into practice, using a mixture of real-life examples, key tips and reflective questions.
The Guide consists of seven brief, accessible chapters for all those interested in learning more about community-led work. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on the rationale and broad principles that underlie a community-led approach, including the need for humility, sharing of power, and dialogue. Chapters 3 to 7 provide practical advice on how to contextualize and adapt a…
This video showcases the Family-based care program of Save the Children and its partners in Indonesia, highlighting different aspects of the program working with government, schools of social work, residential care providers, children and their families.
This webinar presentation by Professor Marie Connolly of the University of Melbourne was given at a UNICEF Seminar on the 1 April 2014. Professor Connolly began by introducing the history and background of Family Group Conference (FGC) in New Zealand, which was developed initially in the late 1980s as a culturally responsive way of diverting children and their families from the court system. It has since become a key decision-making mechanism for both care and protection and youth justice systems. FGC was later…
This narrated interactive feature produced by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child presents a logic model showing how policies and programs that strengthen specific kinds of caregiver and community capacities can build the foundations of healthy development. These support beneficial biological adaptations in the brain and other organ systems, which lead to positive outcomes in health and development across the lifespan.
The interactive logic model is centered on three concepts:
- Brain development begins before…