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Preventing Family Separation and Promoting Reintegration is a comprehensive baseline survey by Changing the Way We Care Haiti aimed at informing the design of a robust care reform program focused on averting family separation and fostering sustainable reintegration. The initiative prioritized the perspectives of both children and families to gain a nuanced understanding of the challenges surrounding child-family separation. The survey objectives were multifaceted, encompassing the exploration of caregivers and children's perceptions regarding the phenomenon, identification of pre-…
This webinar explored the role of the Catholic Church in responding to children who are migrating alone or who are at risk of or have been separated from their families in the context of migration.
- How does Catholic social teaching inform faith communities’ responses to unaccompanied and separated children in the context of migration?
- How do Catholic principles and practices…
In this webinar, a new paper on strategies to prevent family separation is presented. Examples from Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Namibia are presented.
The Regional Learning Platform on care reform for Eastern and Southern Africa provides an opportunity for government, UNICEF and others involved in care reform in the region to share learning through webinars, document exchange, a HelpDesk, and pairing and mentoring. The platform and its…
The Unaccompanied and Separated Children Training of Trainers (UASC TOT) course is designed to prepare participants to facilitate training on unaccompanied and separated children (UASC). This training reinforces participants’ understanding of the specific needs of UASC, highlight good practice in working with unaccompanied and separated children under a protection framework, and provide participants the opportunity to apply learning so they can roll out training on UASC within their own organisation and to other stakeholders.
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This mixed-methods systematic review asks what is known about children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents when in out-of-home care. To address this question 37 studies were coded to identify children’s experiences and thoughts regarding contact with their parents. Data synthesis was performed in three stages. The frequency of the identified factors across all included research was determined and qualitative and quantitative syntheses were performed.
The results reveal that children hold thoughts and views on several aspects of contact with their birth…
This introductory learning module has been developed by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. The learning module is designed to strengthen participants' overall understanding of prevention related elements from the UASC Handbook and Toolkit and the ACE Toolkit within the three levels of prevention described in the CPHA Primary Prevention Framework.
The decision to use this learning package should be based on an analysis of current capacities and the identification of specific learning needs…
This webinar was organized by India Alternative Care Network (IACN) in association with Miracle Foundation India, on April 28, 2023, with the objective to understand gatekeeping, it's components, tools, mechanisms, stakeholders and their role in gatekeeping and learning some promising practices at the primary and secondary levels of gatekeeping.
Children with disabilities are disproportionately represented in residential care facilities (RCF) across the globe, and they are too often the last to find home in family care. As awareness grows in communities around the world, more and more people are working to ensure children with disabilities are no longer left behind in care reform, especially in services and programs that aim to reunify children with families, place children in family-based alternative care and prevent separation. While reintegrating children with disabilities often takes longer and can be more resource intensive,…
This is the third webinar in Family for Every Child's kinship care learning series.
This webinar explores approaches to supporting kinship care during crises (including political and economic crises in Lebanon); the support needs of Ukrainian refugees in kinship care in the UK and examples of how cross-border placements into kinship care can be effectively supported.
Примусове переміщення, депортація та усиновлення дітей з України, що призвело до остаточного розлучення дітей із їхніми сім’ями, громадами та культурою, є явним порушенням їхніх прав людини та міжнародного
гуманітарного права та становить суттєву загрозу їхній безпеці та добробуту, а також їхньому відчуттю ідентичності та приналежності.
Ми засуджуємо таку практику та закликаємо всі сторони конфлікту поважати міжнародні закони та стандарти, що існують для захисту дітей у конфліктах та інших надзвичайних ситуаціях.
Ми закликаємо російську владу, зокрема Уповноваженого Президента Росії…