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This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of the United States of America’ second periodic report under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This webinar will provide an overview of how Family Resource Centers' pandemic response has raised their profile. It seeks to address the following questions:
- How have Family Resource Centers (FRCs) been uniquely positioned to support families through the pandemic?
- How has FRCs’ pandemic response raised their profile?
- Why are state governments and public and private funders choosing to invest more in FRCs moving forward?
This event, hosted by Disability Rights International (DRI) is the third in a webinar series on human rights of people with disabilities in light of the covid-19 pandemic. In the previous webinar, UN human rights authorities called for every country to protect people with disabilities "by adopting and reinforcing deinstitutionalization strategies to close institutions and return people to the community...strengthening support and services for persons with disabilities and older persons." Members of the Inter-American Commission called for life-saving interventions to protect…
Join this webinar for a conversation about how family support professionals and organizations have adapted to serve families during the COVID-19 outbreak, and what we are learning that we will carry forward from this time.
Hear from the Center for the Study of Social Policy, the Children’s Trust Fund Alliance, and other partners during the first hour, and stay on for an additional 30 minutes if you can, to share your own experiences and hear from other participants from around the country.