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The Nuffield-funded Expressions of Self research project aimed to listen to minoritised looked-after children and young people’s narratives on ethnicity, religion and identity, to inform policy and practice about their needs. During this last year we have spoken to 26 care-experienced children and young people from Black, South Asian and other minoritised backgrounds to understand how their perceive and experience their identities whilst in care.
We have heard stories of resilience and hope, as well as stories of recurrent loss and enduring sadness. However what unites all the…
The origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States includes a dependency on slave labor and sales to sustain itself and build its institutions. In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests, the Society of Jesuits, sold 272 enslaved people to save Georgetown University, their largest mission project and the first Catholic institution of higher learning in the United States. The sale included the separation of children from parents, a common feature of the slave trade. In the…
Featuring
Hille Haker
Richard McCormick S.J. Endowed Chair in Catholic Ethics, Loyola University Chicago
Ian Manzi (moderator)
Program Assistant, Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues
Batool Salloum
Advocate for Family Reunification
Brenda Urizar
Program Manager, Catholic Relief Services
Monsignor Robert J. Vitillo
Secretary General, International Catholic Migration Commission
The Christian faith began with a vulnerable child born to a displaced mother facing a range of…
The objective of this webinar was to present the best practices learnt in the implementation of the youth wellbeing project which focused on integrated mental health and wellbeing support for youth and particularly young people with lived experience of care.
This is the 15th webinar in the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative Webinar Series.
Background:
Mental health problems affect 10–20% of children and young people (CYP) worldwide, with a staggering 90…
This UNICEF ESARO webinar explores the role of case management in care reform and examines strategies for effective case management from Kenya, Ghana and Uganda. Speakers address case conferencing, integrated case management, caseloads, and monitoring case management.
In June 2022, hundreds of care reform leaders gathered to discuss the importance of providing adequate public financing to strengthen families and protect children in Moldova and across the globe. Conference speakers advocated for the provision of a minimum packages of services for families and children.
The Investing in Family Care for Moldova’s Future report was released at the conference making the case that these services are a sound investment with high returns, savings to both individuals and government, and increased lifetime earnings, access to adequate services, increased life…
Dainius Puras, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health (2014 to 2020) and CHIP Special Advisor, discusses the importance of identity rights from a non-legal perspective.
The objective of this webinar was to present the best practices learnt in the implementation of the foster care system as an alternative to limited child care institutions for children on the move in The Gambia.
BACKGROUND
In The Gambia, child care institutions are not adequate to respond to the growing needs of children needing protection and assistance services. There is only one Government-owned Shelter for children which is at central level, meaning that, all cases of identified children needing support were ultimately referred to this shelter.
Considering the…
The 2023 Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC23) in London on 21-22 June, was a continuation of the cycle of meetings beginning in London in 2017 as the Ukraine Reform Conference.
Initially set up as a high-level international event for benchmarking progress on the reforms agenda, today the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) represents the central forum for the international community to support Ukraine in its recovery and reconstruction efforts in the face of Russian aggression and the…
This 5th webinar of the Family for Every Child Kinship Care learning series looked at the different ways in which kinship carers themselves support kinship care. Kinship Care Ireland shared how the kinship caregivers they are working with are self-advocating for greater recognition for kinship care.
FOST in Zimbabwe, shared on the different types of mutual support programmes they run with caregivers, providing both financial and emotional support to kinship carers, as well as learning about their use of community dialogues to identify support needs for vulnerable families. And finally,…