In this first episode of a new special series on child development and COVID-19, Center Director Dr. Jack Shonkoff and host Sally Pfitzer discuss how to support healthy child development during a pandemic, including the importance of caring for caregivers.

"UN human rights experts have appealed to States to boost child protection measures to help safeguard the welfare of millions of children worldwide who may be more exposed to violence, sale, trafficking, sexual abuse and exploitation during the COVID-19 pandemic," says this press release from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights.

This leaflet outlines six important principles for foster carers and adopters to hold in mind as they work together to help children to move to adoption.

This brief report describes social media-based advertising strategies employed to recruit an anonymous sample of young adults who had recently aged out of foster care to participate in an online survey.

This webpage from UNICEF features a list of resources for practitioners working with children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Este documento está elaborado con el fin de proporcionar criterios de evaluación en el ejercicio de la atención que brinden las entidades en general, en especial las que se ocupan de la protección especial los derechos de todo los niños, niñas y adolescentes.

This study offers ideas that would guarantee the safety of children within the informal foster care net in Nigeria. The authors investigated informal foster care practice in two local government areas of Anambra State, Nigeria using Key Informant Interviews (KIIs).

This series of country briefs aim to provide an analysis of children’s living and care arrangements according to the latest available data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys (MICS) at the time of publication.

Este video explica estrés tóxico y cosas que podemos hacer para defendernos a nosotros y a nuestros hijos de los efectos de incluso el estrés más intenso.

The IDEAS Impact Framework helps people understand the specifics of how a program works, for whom it works (and does not work), and in what contexts it works. The training helps people in a variety of roles gain critical skills and knowledge.