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This issue of the US-based journal Future of Children, entitled ‘Helping Parents, Helping Children: Two-Generation Mechanisms,’ reviews intervention programs for children and families of low socioeconomic status and on the mechanisms of child development that those intervention programs are trying to influence. The journal has chosen to focus on this topic in light of the sobering facts about socioeconomic differences in home environments, and the modest track record of intervention programs that seek to reduce the negative impact of those socioeconomic differences on educational…
Family for Every Child is aimed at enabling more children to grow up safe and protected in families and to access temporary, quality alternative care when needed. This report incorporates the views and collective expertise of the 15 national organizations working directly with vulnerable children worldwide that came together to form Family for Every Child.
This report highlights the needs of children without adequate family care, the impact inadequate care has on children and society, and why family care is important. Some of the negative impacts on children, according to the report,…
The UN General Assembly (UN GA) adopted a resolution during its 68th Session, proposed by Fiji on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, on Preparations for and observance of the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family (A/RES/68/136). Particularly worth noting is the decision by the UN GA to devote one plenary meeting during the 69th session in 2014 to this topic, “in order to discuss the role of family-oriented policies in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda”…
This paper was commissioned by Family for Every Child and is part of an inter-agency series on the links between child protection and major development goals. This report focuses on the links between child protection and economic growth. The report acknowledges that economic growth has the potential to improve many outcomes for children and, moreover, economic growth can be enhanced by improvements in child protection, such as children’s education, nutrition, and health. However, the paper also recognizes that economic growth alone is an insufficient indicator of children’s well-being,…
This 5-minute animated video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and families. It describes the need to focus on building the capabilities of caregivers and strengthening the communities that together form the environment of relationships essential to children’s lifelong learning, health, and behavior. As stated by Jack Shonkoff from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, who narrates the video, “We need to focus on the…
This handbook, Moving Forward: Implementation of the ‘Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children,’ was developed by CELSIS under an initiative of the Working Group on Children without Parental Care of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the project’s Steering Committee which included representatives from ISS, SOS Children’s Villages International, Family for Every Child, ATD Fourth World, Better Care Network, RELAF, and UNICEF.
It is designed as a tool for legislators, policy-makers, and all…
This new report by the World Policy Analysis brings together key findings from the book, Children’s Chances: How Countries Can Move From Surviving and Thriving, providing a global picture of what laws, policies, and programs countries have in place to address areas vital to children’s healthy development, including access to quality education, protection from child labor and early marriage, good health care, working conditions for adults that enable parents to care for their children through policies guaranteeing minimum wage, paid leave and…
Zero to Three, a US based non profit organization working to inform, train and support professionals, policy makers and parents to improve the lives of infants and toddlers, combined the evidence from research on early childhood development with feedback from focus groups held across the country with families, friends, and neighbors who act as care givers in order to develop a range of simple and practical resources to strengthen care practices with children between the ages of 0 and 3.
The current website lists nine critical tools and resources which are described briefly as follows…
The recently released UNICEF Social Protection Strategic Framework and the World Bank Social Protection and Labor strategy call for taking a systems approach to social protection as a way to help countries, communities, families and children enhance resilience, equity and opportunity. This brief outlines the common ground between the World Bank and UNICEF in their commitment in developing and strengthening social protection systems, and calls on other stakeholders to engage collaboratively to build such systems and expand…
The World Family Map Project is a new initiative by Child Trends to monitor the health of family life around the globe and to learn more about how family trends affect the well-being of children. Recognizing the centrality of the family to child and adult well-being and the changing dynamic and structure of families today, the project will issue an annual report, The World Family Map, using internationally comparative data for low-, middle-, and high-income countries to map trends in family structure, family socioeconomics, family processes, and family culture in…