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In 2013 The Better Care Network and Save the Children UK began an inter-agency initiative to review and share existing knowledge on international volunteerism as related to the alternative care of children in developing countries. This initiative brings together key actors from across the child protection, education, corporate, faith-based and tourism sectors to share their respective experiences and identify global communication and engagement strategies to address the issue.
The first priority of this initiative was to conduct a review of the practice of international volunteering in…
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Research involving families of children with disabilities has focused mainly on parents, particularly mothers, but the extended family, including grandparents, should also be examined. This review synthesized the literature from 1990 to 2013 regarding the subject of grandparents raising grandchildren, particularly grandchildren with disabilities. We also examine sources of support and family quality of life of grandparents raising grandchildren. Implications for those working with families in schools as well as suggestions for future research are presented.…
This report presents the strategic thinking and proposed stages of development of the Better Volunteering Better Care initiative, as a result of its work during its first year. The document outlines the proposed steps forward for the initiative, including idea generation and development and participant mapping to achieve desired change. The report highlights the main goals of the initiative: (1) expert-driven structural change, (2) volunteer-led behaviour change, and (3) locally designed product innovation. The report also describes additional proposed intervention areas of the initiative.…
This guide serves as a supplement to the United States CDC guide “Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments.” It provides guidance on creating a context for increasing safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children and families by promoting positive community norms. The document highlights the power of positive community norms, emphasizes the importance of understanding the difference between actual and perceived norms, and provides seven steps to promoting positive community norms.
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This brief factsheet from the U.S. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the CDC provides an overview of child maltreatment. The factsheet includes information on the definition of child maltreatment, implications for public health, the effects maltreatment has on a child’s health, populations and communities most at risk for child maltreatment, prevention, and additional resources for learning more.
Centers for Disease Control - Department of Health and Human Services
This brief factsheet from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control presents current data on child maltreatment in the United States. The factsheet includes data on the number of child maltreatment cases in the United States, the number of reported deaths resulting from child maltreatment, and demographic information on the children who experience maltreatment and the perpetrators of maltreatment.
Centers for Disease Control - Department of Health and Human Services
This report, commissioned by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development of Uganda and supported by UNICEF, presents findings from an analysis on child poverty in Uganda, undertaken by the Economic Policy Research Centre. The research team adapted an internationally recognised approach to studying child poverty, based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to the Ugandan context.
The report is aimed at: (1) developing a set of comprehensive indicators to measure child poverty and disparities in Uganda using an adapted and modified Bristol deprivation approach; (2…
This report from the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education provides statistical and demographic data on the education of children in foster care in the United States. The report provides general national foster care data and highlights promising programs in the U.S. that provide early interventions to promote positive educational outcomes for children in foster care, ensure more school stability for children in foster care, promote regular school attendance, support children to prevent serious behavioral problems in school, support graduation and transitions to college, and more…
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This study explores the construction of the orphanage child and the helper in the context of voluntourism, orphanage tourism, support and establishment of orphanages. Since residential care is rarely put forward as a “good solution” for children without parental care in Sweden or other Western countries, the purpose of this study is to understand how orphanages for children from the South are legitimised as a solution in narratives about the helpers and the orphans. Through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) I have studied the widespread narrative about the helper and the orphan…
In recent years, Nepal has seen a dramatic increase in the number of children who are separated from their families to live in orphanages. During the 10 year civil war, which ended in 2006, many child traffickers coerced parents into giving up their children by posing as boarding school representatives and promising parents their children would be taken to live in safe and modern boarding school facilities. Even after the conflict, this practice continues as traffickers offer promises not only of safety from violence but also high-rate education. Next Generation Nepal estimates that about 15,…