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Globally, during the COVID 19 pandemic there have been disruptions to initiatives, services, and programmes that promote and protect nurturing care for young children. While necessary to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2, strategies such as complete or partial lockdown, physical distancing measures, and school and childcare closures, have made it increasingly difficult to reach children and caregivers. At the same time, the social and economic ramifications of the pandemic have put families in even greater need of parenting and family support. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many…
This webinar will provide an overview of how Family Resource Centers' pandemic response has raised their profile. It seeks to address the following questions:
- How have Family Resource Centers (FRCs) been uniquely positioned to support families through the pandemic?
- How has FRCs’ pandemic response raised their profile?
- Why are state governments and public and private funders choosing to invest more in FRCs moving forward?
This event, hosted by Disability Rights International (DRI) is the third in a webinar series on human rights of people with disabilities in light of the covid-19 pandemic. In the previous webinar, UN human rights authorities called for every country to protect people with disabilities "by adopting and reinforcing deinstitutionalization strategies to close institutions and return people to the community...strengthening support and services for persons with disabilities and older persons." Members of the Inter-American Commission called for life-saving interventions to protect…
Join this webinar for a conversation about how family support professionals and organizations have adapted to serve families during the COVID-19 outbreak, and what we are learning that we will carry forward from this time.
Hear from the Center for the Study of Social Policy, the Children’s Trust Fund Alliance, and other partners during the first hour, and stay on for an additional 30 minutes if you can, to share your own experiences and hear from other participants from around the country.
As child protection researchers and practitioners worldwide work to understand and manage the unprecedented effects of COVID-19 on systems of care, join this presentation by Barbara Fallon of the University of Toronto and Delphine Collin-Vezina of McGill University.
Dr. Fallon and Dr. Collin-Vezina will share information from the new University of Toronto Policy Bench report, Child…