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Abstract
Background
Funding for prevention interventions is often quite limited. Cost-related assessments are important to best allocate prevention funds.
Objectives
To determine the (1) overall cost for implementing the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model, (2) cost of implementation per child, and (3) cost per case of maltreatment averted.
Design
Cost-effective analysis of a randomized controlled trial.
Participants and setting
102 pediatric providers at 18 pediatric primary care practices. 924 families with children < 6 years receiving care by those…
This report provides a brief analysis of social sector spending in Zambia. It reviews spending on social protection, water and sanitation, health, food insecurity, and education.
This brief from Head Start provides an overview of state funding for Head Start, a collection of comprehensive birth to five programs in the U.S. specifically designed to strengthen families, promote school readiness, and improve child health. Among other outcomes, the Head Start programs strengthen families and promote more positive parent-child relationships, more stable and healthy homes, and less child welfare involvement. The brief provides examples of how state investments in Head Start have helped to improve outcomes for at-risk children and families.
This document from Casey Family Programs reviews data on Family Resource Centers and other family support services in the US. In reviewing the family resource center and other family support data, it is clear that many of these kinds of services have much to offer child welfare and broader community efforts that are interested in strengthening families so they do not need child welfare services or use them for a shorter period of time. While more studies are needed, it appears that some family resource centers have been able to reduce family poverty, parent isolation, deficits in…
Introduction
Children placed in institutional care are deprived of their fundamental right to living in a family environment. The Romanian state would greatly improve their situation, if it took care of preventing the separation of children from their family, instead of focusing on the current model - placing in care about 63,000 children, while hundreds of thousands of them still live in inhumane conditions. These are the ones that specialised public authorities pretend they do not see, because they lack the capacity for legislative framework design to prevent the separation of…
The PEPFAR Uganda Interagency Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Portfolio Review and Cost Analysis was conducted in November 2015. The purpose of the review is to provide evidence to support planning that will maximize the impact of the PEPFAR Uganda OVC portfolio. To this end, the report:
- Identifies and describes the implementation approaches within the PEPFAR Uganda OVC portfolio, indicating the strengths and weaknesses of each model with respect to their capacity to achieve intended outcomes;
- Provides a cost analysis of the various implementation models,…
In 2015, the European Parliament called on the European Commission and the European Union Member States, “in view of the weakening of public services, to introduce a Child Guarantee so that every child in poverty can have access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition, as part of a European integrated plan to combat child poverty”. Following the subsequent request by the Parliament to the Commission to implement a Preparatory Action to explore the potential scope of a Child Guarantee for vulnerable children, the Commission ordered a study to…
Abstract
HIV and AIDS are reported to be one of the leading causes of death in Nigeria, behind other child-related death illnesses – influenza and pneumonia (CDC, 2013). The presence of HIV and AIDS in a family, including related orhpanhood because of the disease has a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of children. It also dramatically impacts the long-term implications and costs to society. However, there remains a notable disparity between the contributions made by different actors – including all levels of the Nigerian government, international donors, private organizations…
This document sheds some light on where funding discussions currently stand with regard to U.S. government programs for global children and youth issues. The information is presented according to relevant funding accounts within various appropriations bills. Some issues, such as trafficking, are addressed in multiple funding accounts through various U.S. government departments, agencies, and offices. Other issues, such as early childhood development and protection from violence are referenced under certain accounts without specific appropriations. U.S. government assistance for vulnerable…
This document aims to provide an overview of the scope of activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in relation to the protection of unaccompanied migrant children and support for this group. It significantly draws on IOM’s operational data and programmatic information, collected through internal knowledge management tools; at the same time, this information is supplemented by a mapping of the activities of IOM Field Offices covering the period 2009–2011. This paper also benefits from a review of existing international standards and policy frameworks as well as recent…