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The Task Force on Family Strengthening presented a Learning Event on Social Protection on 23 February 2023:
Social protection is one of the primary tools governments can use to support families and promote better outcomes for children. This learning event was an opportunity for care reform advocates and practitioners to learn more about social protection – as well as economic strengthening interventions - from researchers and practitioners in the field. It provided an opportunity to dive deeper into what role social protection can and should play in…
To guarantee that individuals who have experienced living in alternative care settings can participate in processes and decisions to improve the child care system, Doncel, with support from the Latin American Network of Care Leavers, Better Care Network, and Changing The Way We Care, carried out the first Regional Mapping of Activists with care experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.
These organizations have long been working to promote and reinforce the participation of care leavers in alternative care discussions. The need to reform and improve child protection and care systems…
The Transitioning Residential Care Services Learning Event was an interactive workshop organized and hosted by the Transitioning Residential Care Working Group as part of the Transforming Children’s Care Global Collaborative Platform.
El evento de aprendizaje de servicios de atención residencial en transición, es un taller interactivo organizado y presentado por el grupo de trabajo de atención residencial en transición como parte de la plataforma colaborativa global de Transformación de la Atención Infantil.…
Background
While there are various pathways by which children experience parental incarceration or foster care, involvement in either system is associated with adverse health outcomes. Despite co-occurring risk factors for parental incarceration and foster care, little is known about the prevalence or characteristics of youth navigating both of these experiences.
Objectives
This study details the prevalence of youth at the intersection of parental incarceration and foster care, their demographic characteristics, and heterogeneity in their mental health.…
The Task Force on Foster Care of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform held the fifth webinar in the spotlight series on Foster Care Practice on 15 September 2022.
The webinar explored participation in foster care with particular focus on individual decision making for children and young people. We heard from people with lived experience of foster care in different contexts, including…
The Task Force on Foster Care of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform held the fourth webinar in the spotlight series on Foster Care Practice on 18 August 2022.
Speakers from Mothers Choice, Hong Kong and the International Parent Advocacy Network participated in the webinar and their presentations focused on:
- Examples of family based care, reunification and support in Hong…
This webinar is the eleventh in the Transforming Children's Care Webinar Series and was co-hosted with UNICEF. In 2021, UNICEF launched its latest approach to Child Protection Systems Strengthening (CPSS), together with benchmarks for measuring the CPSS work, and high impact CPSS interventions.
The objective of this webinar was to present this CPSS approach, and reflect on how this approach, and especially the seven intermediate…
This webinar series, by and for members of Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, brings together experts from the community to discuss a range of relevant topics identified by members as priorities for learning and exchange. View webinar recordings below.
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This webinar is the tenth in the Transforming Children's Care Webinar Series and was co-hosted with the Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) initiative and was an opportunity to lift up how the Catholic Church is advancing safe and nurturing family care for children around the world. Moderated by Mary Beth Iduh (Senior Program Manager for Faith Engagement, CTWWC), the webinar will feature inspiring examples of Catholic-…
This sixteenth issue of the South African Child Gauge focuses attention on child and adolescent mental health and how early experiences of adversity ripple out across the life course and generations at great cost to individuals and society. It calls on South African society to put children at the centre of all policies in order to protect children from harm, build their capacity to cope with stress and adversity, and provide them with opportunities to thrive.
This 16th annual review of the situation of the country’s children is published by the Children’s Institute (CI…