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Resources on Ukraine Response | |
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This section includes resources, news and other key documents related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting Ukraine and surrounding countries. This section is updated daily. For more resources, visit the growing collection of documents in the BCN Ukraine Response Repository. | |
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Investing in Family Care for Moldova’s Future: The Case for Meeting Moldova's Human Capital Needs
The Investing in Family Care for Moldova’s Future presents the case for investing in a more child-centered social welfare system in Moldova and provides specific estimates on the resources needed including an estimate of the resources required to fund the spectrum of programs and services Moldova needs to (i) prevent children from being placed in residential care; (ii) place children in safe, nurturing, and supported families; and (iii) transform residential settings into community assets that effectively meet community needs.
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Adoption as a Lifelong Process
This book addresses the psychosocial complexities of adoption from multiple perspectives, including the biological family, adopted child, and adoptive parents. It highlights the must-have sensitivity and tactfulness for recurring discussions of the adoption situation.
Related Topic: Adoption and Kafala
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The Evolution of Alternative Care in:
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Becoming Adult on the Move: Migration Journeys, Encounters and Life Transitions
This edited collection situates the migration of children and young people into Europe within a global framework of analysis and provides a holistic perspective that encompasses cultural media, ethnographic research and policy analysis. Drawing on a unique study of young unaccompanied migrants who subsequently became ‘adult’ within the UK and Italy, it examines their different trajectories and how they were impacted by their ability to secure legal status.
Related Topic: Children and Migration
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This U.S.-based study analyzes data from a statewide kinship caregiver survey which collected demographic data, challenges, and needs.
Related Topic: Kinship Care
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First Nations Care Leavers: Supporting Better Transitions
This resource is aimed at supporting front-line practitioners in Australia to have a working knowledge of the historical and contemporary context of social welfare policies and their impact on First Nations families and to use this knowledge as a starting point to build an awareness of how individual and systemic practices impact First Nations young people and families.
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The View of Minority Youth on Cultural Continuity When Developing Their Identity in Majority Foster Homes
In this article, the focus is on youth with minority backgrounds living in majority foster homes in Norway and their views on cultural continuity. What is important for these young people when developing their identity in foster homes? The study is based on qualitative interviews with nine adolescents from minority
backgrounds who live in majority foster homes, which are homes in which one or both foster parents have ethnic Norwegian backgrounds.
Related Topic: Foster Care
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The Right to Leave: Dissolution of Child, Early, and Forced Marriages and Unions
This paper explores why the right to leave marriage matters, describes the obstacles to girls’ access to divorce and to protections after divorce or separation, and links these to the factors that drive child, early, and forced marriages and unions. The authors reviewed reports and evidence from countries in all regions of the world by drawing on a previous systematic scoping review and related research done by the authors.
Related Topic: Child Abuse and Neglect
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Prioritising Displaced Children in the Global Refugee Agenda
This editorial published in the August 2023 issue of the The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Journal discusses the needs of children who are disproportionately affected by displacement. The author urges countries to consider the unique needs of displaced children—including those displaced internally, disadvantaged, or with disabilities—in all initiatives and policies, to ensure that no one is left behind ahead of the Global Refugee Forum in December 2023.
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Policies, Standards, and Guidelines | | |
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Thematic Brief: Volunteering, Voluntourism, Tourism and Trafficking in Orphanages
This thematic brief contains guidance on key policy measures and concrete steps that may assist with the development and implementation of a whole-of-government strategy to eliminate orphanage tourism and voluntourism and to combat orphanage trafficking. It includes recommendations relevant to volunteer-sending and volunteer-receiving countries. In addition, it contains practical examples of effective measures from a diverse range of countries sending and receiving volunteers.
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Practitioner Handbook for Alternative Family- and Community- Based Care
This handbook is a summarized, user-friendly version of the operating procedures for alternative family- and community-based care options in Kenya. It provides an overview of each type of care, key considerations, and the process followed for placement. The handbook aims to provide an easy and quick reference to critical information and “how to” about alternative family- and community-based care placements.
Related Topic: Community Based Care Mechanisms
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Understanding, Exploring and Supporting Children’s Identity Development
This practice tool considers how practitioners can explore and write about identity with children and young people. It gives a short introduction to some useful concepts about identity for social care practitioners and provides guidance about how practitioners could support children’s identity development. It also includes a set of practical tips and tools to use to explore children’s identities with them.
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Virtual Gallery: You Promised, Now Deliver
Family for Every Child’s Virtual Gallery is dedicated to the voices of children and young people from around the world, exploring the issues that affect them and their care. They collaborated with VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai to support the “You Promised… Now Deliver!” campaign, and developed a gallery that highlights children and young people’s perspectives on care in Aotearoa via a virtual hikoi to parliament.
Related Topic: Child Participation
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Domnica Coilieva
Foster Parent
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Ala Derivolcova
Support Teacher, Ivan Vazov Lyceum
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Macrine Otuge
Project Coordinator/Social Worker
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Paul Mugambi
Disability Specialist
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Maresa Vasquez
Directora Ejecutiva
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Joseph Offiro Wetoyi
Counselor and Mediator
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Other Ways to Engage With the Community | |
The Directory of Organizations page lists organizations, agencies, foundations, and networks working in the field of children’s care.
If you would like to feature a profile of your organization in our Directory of Organizations, please fill out this form with information about your organization and we will review it.
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The Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative Platform brings together a wide community of actors working to strengthen children’s care and care systems to establish more strategic sector-wide collaboration spanning the global to the local level.
Its aim is to support learning exchange, agree on common principles and approaches, leverage and build on one another’s work, and undertake joint advocacy based in evidence to secure greater and more sustainable impact for children, families and their communities.
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Additionally, some of these country pages feature country care snapshots. This consists of dashboards and interactive graphs providing a high-level overview of the status of care reform efforts country by country using key indicators.
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Demonstration Countries for Care Reform in Kenya: Kisumu
The government of Kenya has been working with UNICEF, Changing the Way We Care, Charitable Children's Institutions and local CSOs to pilot care reform at the county level. Learning from these demonstration counties is being used to shape care reform in other counties and at the national level. This video explores care reform in one demonstration county, Kisumu.
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Newsletter participants, currently 5,030 in total, work on issues related to the care and support of vulnerable children across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. The purpose of the newsletter is to enable members to exchange information on matters of mutual concern. If you would like to share a document, raise a specific issue, request a newsletter subscription, or reach out in any other way to the Network, please send the information to us at contact@bettercarenetwork.org or visit our website at www.bettercarenetwork.org.
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