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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?
This podcast episode describes what self-harm is and how social workers can support young people and carers who are self-harming. The podcast discusses why looked-after children are more at risk of mental health problems and how social workers can support young people
The evaluation of everyday multi-professional intervention to safeguard and promote the well-being of vulnerable children is limited and restricts both operational planning and professional intervention. The core aim of this programme is to contribute to the development of a platform that will support better understanding of the routes from intervention to outcomes for vulnerable children in Scotland through utilising administrative datasets and longitudinal research.
The growing emphasis on recognizing, addressing, and preventing human trafficking is an emerging issue challenging many government and human service agencies. Child welfare is especially affected because children and youth placed in out-of-home care due to abuse and neglect, along with runaway and homeless youth, are at high risk of trafficking.
Effectively addressing human trafficking requires agencies to collaborate on providing judicial, therapeutic, and prevention services. …
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In Episode 51, you will hear from Delia Pop, Director of Programs and Global Advocacy for Hope and Homes for Children, talking with Phil about:
- How we can better understand the ins-and-outs of deinstitutionalization
- Issues with institutional orphanages
- How we can pursue excellence in orphan care around the world
- Why she believes that large institutions are not necessary, but residential can be appropriate in limited, specific situations
- Five steps that will help us work cross-culturally with others to…
In this Innocenti Podcast, Tia Palermo discusses The Transfer Project, a government run large-scale social cash transfer program in Sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this program is to improve the condition of children and adolescents in the region. The beneficiaries of these cash transfers are non-conditional. These transfers have had a positive effect on children and adolescents. Impact evaluations demonstrate a direct positive causal impacts on households and children’s well-being. Using rigorous data, The Transfer Project found that cash transfers do not increase…
Virtual Philanthropy is a guided tour for nonprofits looking to understand the steps they should take in order to get in front of, and eventually get funding from, foundations and donors. The tour guides here are various members of the philanthropic sector, from individual donors to gatekeepers of funds.
Each podcast has a different member of philanthropy explaining in detail how they can be found, what they want to hear and see, and finally what moves an organization from consideration to partnership. Throughout the podcast, guests offer vital advice both specifically to their own…
Next month, Australia's Northern Territory Royal Commission will report findings from its investigation into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory and offer recommendations for the youth justice and child protection systems. In this PM Radio story, the family of an indigenous teen placed in residential care who recently took her own life calls on the government to prioritize kinship care placements in its upcoming recommendations.
In this episode of BBC World Service Radio, Shannon Sennefield of Catholic Relief Services describes the importance of the 'Changing the Way We Care' project, a semi-finalist for the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change grant. The MacArthur Foundation narrowed down their $100 million dollar grant proposals to 8 finalists and the BBC explored each of these project. At about fourteen minutes into this episode, host Ed Butler introduces Changing the Way We Care and hears about the proposal to end the institutionalization of children.
Sennefield describes how parents are often put…
In this BBC Radio interview, Jane Garvey speaks to Australian Senator Linda Reynolds, CEO of Australian Christian Churches International Relief Rebecca Nhep, and CEO of Lumos Georgette Mulheir about the motivation behind Australia's potential ban on orphanage tourism.