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Global Social Service Workforce Alliance Annual Symposium: A Decade of Progress, A Future of Promise
The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance invites you join us for our Annual Symposium—to be held virtually during Social Service Workforce Week on 26 October 2023 from 12:00-14:00 UTC / GMT.
Officially launched in 2013, the Alliance was originally conceived during the Social Welfare Workforce Strengthening Conference, in Cape Town, South Africa in 2010, when teams from 18 countries joined together to share experiences and address key challenges facing the social service workforce at a national, regional …
Early childhood is deeply influential in a child’s life trajectory. Children need nurturing care to enable them to develop to their full potential. Evidence demonstrates the critical role of parents and the importance of play in holistic child development making playful parenting an important component in children’s early years development. When development is delayed, or at risk, interventions, including those that incorporate play and communication between the primary caregiver and the child are critical. But how well are caregivers equipped to better identify risks and support their…
Globally, during the COVID-19 pandemic there have been disruptions to initiatives, services, and programmes that promote and protect nurturing care for young children. While necessary to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2, strategies such as complete or partial lockdown, physical distancing measures, and school and childcare closures, have made it increasingly difficult to reach children and caregivers. At the same time, the social and economic ramifications of the pandemic have put families in even greater need of parenting and family support. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many…
Date: Tuesday 10 October 2023
Time: 10:00 (UTC/GMT +02:00 - Europe / Brussels)
- SWEDEN: 10:00 – 11:30
- TANZANIA: 11:00 – 12:30
- THAILAND: 3:00 – 4:30 PM
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The objective of this webinar is to present the best practices learnt in the implementation of the youth wellbeing project which focused on integrated mental health and wellbeing support for youth and particularly young people with lived experience of care.
This is the 15th webinar in the Transforming Children's…
UNICEF’s Office of Research is a dedicated independent research arm for UNICEF located in Florence, Italy. A large portion of the evaluation work done in the office focuses on Government supported cash transfer programs and their impacts on wellbeing of families, women and children. This webinar reviews some of the new and ongoing work conducted under the Transfer Project, a multi-organizational research and learning initiative, presented by Social Policy and Humanitarian specialists Amber Peterman, Tia Palermo and Jacob de Hoop. The first presentation will…
The conference is part of a long-term effort by the US government and other donors to draw increased attention and mobilize additional assistance for social workers worldwide who work with children who are vulnerable to abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect. The Conference explored a range of workforce development strategies, including strategies for planning, training, and supporting the workforce incorporating lessons learned from Health Systems Strengthening and Human Resources for Health Initiatives as well as other human and institutional capacity building and training efforts. The…
In May, 2016, 77 diverse children’s care stakeholders from government ministries, UN agencies, civil society, donors, academia and the media came together in Lusaka over three days to take part in a national consultation to accelerate the national child care reform process in Zambia. This report documents the discussions at the meeting and key issues identified to accelerate the care reform process in Zambia. Highlighted challenges included the relationship between poverty and increased risk of child separation; conceptualization of child care reform, and building an…
The Government of Zambia - along with many other partners including Better Care Network, the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, GHR Foundation, USAID, UNICEF, Save the Children and other NGOs - convened a National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform in Zambia from 4-6 May, 2016. The consultation aimed to jointly identify national priorities for action in order to accelerate child care reform in Zambia. The main focus areas and questions of the consultation were:
- What evidence do we have about child care reform? And how can we build and share the evidence base?…
Este evento paralelo del Consejo de Derechos Humanos fue patronicinado por las Misiones Permanentes de Kenya, Portugal, Uruguay y Vietnam, African Child Policy Forum, ATD 4th World, Better Care Network, CELCIS, Family for Every Child, For Our Children Foundation, Hope and Homes for Children, International Federation of Social Workers, International Foster Care Organisation, International Social Service, RELAF, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages International y UNICEF. El evento paralelo el evento se llevó a cabo el 22 de septiembre 2015 y asistieron más de 40…