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Individuals who have experienced living in alternative care settings have a critical role to play in the reform of child protection and alternative care systems. Engaging fully these children, young people, and adults in research and advocacy to inform policy and develop effective solutions requires more creative and flexible approaches to research methodology, with youth expertise, empowerment, and participation at the center.
Drawing from the learning from participatory research in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Australia, this webinar introduced different…
Lumos and Changing the Way We Care celebrated the launch of a new manual (English) for practitioners on how to engage children and young people throughout care reform. Building on ten years’ experience, this practical manual was designed for practitioners and service managers who want to build their knowledge and skills on meaningful…
This webinar was part of Eurochild’s breakfast webinars to mark World Children’s Day 2020. This webinar looked at the intersection between children’s rights and democracy. In particular, it explored the challenges faced in Bulgaria by the children’s rights movement and how the upcoming EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child can help governments to…
The two-year project ‘Leaving Care – An Integrated Approach to Capacity Building of Professionals and Young People’, has aimed to build the capacity of professionals working with children and young people who are leaving care as well as to strengthen support networks for young care leavers. The project has been coordinated by SOS Children’s Villages International and implemented in cooperation with SOS Children’s Villages’…
The Kenya Society of Care Leavers (KESCA), the Uganda Care Leavers (UCL), The Better Care Network and Changing the Way We Care invited policy makers, practitioners, advocates and careleavers to a unique opportunity to listen and learn from two leaders of careleaver associations.
Special guests Ruth Wacuka of the Kenya Society of Care Leavers and Mai Nambooze of Uganda Care Leavers highlighted two recent documents that illustrate the careleaver experience within and outside of care (…
In this webinar, hosted by Rise Learning Network, Deep Savarni, Founder & Director of Praajak Development Society shares his experience in establishing the Child Protection Committees as a means to realize effective participation of children in monitoring care services in government-run child care institutions in India. Mr. Savarni shares this initiative that is trying to promote the participation of children in how a child care institution is run. Starting with a simple “suggestion box”, the project evolved into institutionalized Child Committees, which are having an…
Changing Futures is a website for young people made by young people with experience of Tusla [child welfare] services in Ireland. The website offers platforms for children ages 10-15 years old and 16-18 years old and takes them through some of the things they can expect as they enter into care. The website shares the stories of young people involved in the care system or "getting help from Tusla services" and the details of their experiences to help other young people become more familiar with the process.
"We think this website could really be used by anybody, like teachers at…
This webinar presentation by Professor Marie Connolly of the University of Melbourne was given at a UNICEF Seminar on the 1 April 2014. Professor Connolly began by introducing the history and background of Family Group Conference (FGC) in New Zealand, which was developed initially in the late 1980s as a culturally responsive way of diverting children and their families from the court system. It has since become a key decision-making mechanism for both care and protection and youth justice systems. FGC was later…
You are warmly invited to the launch of an exciting new manual for practitioners on how to engage children and young people throughout care reform. Building on ten years’ experience, this practical manual was designed for practitioners and service managers who want to build their knowledge and skills on meaningful participation. The manual was co-produced by Lumos, Changing the Way We Care and youth-advocates from around the world. At this interactive launch event you will hear from the youth advocates and those who developed the manual on innovative approaches to involving children and…