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Around the world, millions of children are growing up in orphanages, or children's homes as they are called in many places. But research has shown that the vast majority of them, actually have families. Still many Americans are giving their money to these institutions, which researchers say are bad for children. In countries like Uganda, those well-intentioned funds have created a whole industry around orphans. For the past year, The World's Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi has looked into Western-sponsored orphanages in Uganda, and seen what can go wrong. This is part one of her…
Olena Merzliakova, a psychologist and Ph.D. in Psychology, shared effective and simple tips for parents. She is one of the experts engaged for the EU-funded hotline established this summer by the UNDP.
Elli Oswald, Executive Director of the Faith to Action Initiative, reconsiders the best ways American churches can serve some of the world’s most vulnerable children and honor them as image bearers of God.
Through the Faith to Action Initiative, she advocates for systemic changes that would make orphanages obsolete around the globe.
What You’ll Learn :
- The Research about Orphanages, Family-Based Care and Child Development
- The Risks Involved with Mission Trips to Orphanages
- How Conflicts — Like the War in Ukraine —Affect…
“Engaging Fathers – Putting Lessons Into Practice” is a three-part series to share strategies implemented from three of the five State or county agencies: Los Angeles County, California; Hartford, Connecticut; and Prowers County, Colorado. Part one focuses on the strategies developed within Hartford, Connecticut.
The following individuals are featured in this episode:
- Angela Parks-Pyles, deputy director, contract services, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
- Alan-Michael Graves…
“Engaging Fathers – Putting Lessons Into Practice” is a three-part series to share strategies implemented from three of the five State or county agencies: Los Angeles county, California; Hartford, Connecticut; and Prowers county, Colorado. Part one focuses on the strategies developed within Hartford, Connecticut.
The following individuals are featured in this episode:
- Christine Lau, MSW. assistant chief of child welfare, Connecticut Department of Children and Families
- Abdul Rahmaan I. Muhammad, LMSW, executive director, My People Clinical Services
When children must be removed from their families to ensure their safety, the first goal is to reunite them with their families as soon as possible. Children reunited into safe, stable, and loving family environments tend to perform better in school and have better social skills than those who remain in foster care.
Making reunification the primary goal of out-of-home care requires child welfare agencies to execute intensive, family-centered services to support a safe and stable family. Services should be tailored to each family's circumstances and address the issues that brought the child…
This report published by UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti, ranks countries across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) based on their national childcare and parental leave policies. These policies include the accessibility, affordability and quality of childcare for children between birth and school age. The report notes that COVID-19-related closures of childcare facilities have pushed families of young children into further difficult circumstances. Many parents have been struggling to balance childcare and the…
The INSPIRING Ways to End Violence Against Children podcast has released six new episodes, all of which explore organisations’ efforts to protect children – and adapt to challenges – during COVID-19.
In the first release of the INSPIRING Ways to End Violence Against Children podcast, the End Violence Partnership took listeners from Honduras to South Africa to meet experts in the field of violence prevention, all of whom shared knowledge of what works in tackling the…
The New Neighborhood is a limited series podcast that explores some of the dramatic changes taking place across the U.S. as people work to reinforce a sense of community, support young children and families, and work to build equity within communities. Each episode features emerging innovations that will create a society where all children and their families can thrive.
Many governments around the world are debating or have initiated the second round of restrictions to combat the coronavirus. In May 2020, early childhood expert Joan Lombardi, director of Early Opportunities, spoke on the podcast and told the Protected! host, Hani Mansourian, what she thought governments should be doing to support child protection professionals during the Covid-19 crisis. Five months on, do child protection professionals have what they need to support and protect children as the coronavirus makes a comeback?