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Resources on COVID-19 and Children's Care | |
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The Better Care Network will continue to share tools, guidance, information, and other resources regarding children's care and protection during the COVID-19 pandemic as practitioners, policymakers, and other key stakeholders work to respond to the needs of children and families impacted by this crisis. For more resources on COVID-19 and children's care, visit the growing collection of documents in the BCN COVID-19 Resource Center. | |
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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2023 Communication on EU Enlargement Policy
On 17 June 2022, the European Commission issued its opinion and recommended to the Council that Ukraine should be given the perspective to become a member of the EU and that the country be granted candidate status on the understanding that seven steps, mainly in the rule of law area, are taken. On 23 June 2022, the European Council decided to grant Ukraine the status of candidate country. This report is the Commission’s first annual enlargement report on Ukraine.
Related Topic: Children Affected By Armed Conflict and Displacement
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Understanding the Situation | | |
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From January to June 2023, the Family Support Association for Early Recovery of Hearing and Vision Impaired Children "AudiViz" conducted a study to analyse the perception of parents and children/young people with hearing disabilities on the quality of their lives, the services offered by public authorities and whether they meet their needs or contribute to family support, rehabilitation and social and educational integration.
Related Topic: Children With Disabilities
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This article analyzes the integration process of children returned from ISIS controlled territory in three regions of the Russian North Caucasus from where the largest number of ISIS fighters with Russian citizenship originated. Following the concepts of “reintegration of returned migrants” and “cultural citizenship,” it explicates the role of key actors in the processes of adaptation and integration of children and their families, as well as analyzes the nature of the barriers they overcome to restore their lost civil status and identity.
Related Topic: Leaving Alternative Care and Reintegration
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Parental Absence as an Adverse Childhood Experience Among Young Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa
The objectives of this study were to examine (1) the associations between parental absence for six months or more, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), mental health problems, and substance use among young adults in sub-Saharan Africa, (2) whether parental absence and other ACEs are independently associated with mental health outcomes and substance use, (3) and if parental absence explains additional variance above and beyond those explained by other ACEs.
Related Topic: Child Abuse and Neglect
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This longitudinal study evaluates the effectiveness of BLINDED intervention, an intervention that utilizes family search and engagement practices to place children who enter foster care in kinship placements as quickly as possible in the US.
Related Topic: Kinship Care
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Reducing Foster Care Placement Through Equity-Focused Implementation of Family First
From 2021 to 2023, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken administrative actions to prioritize the implementation of Family First prevention services. These actions minimize traumatic deployments of CPS, reduce the use of family separations, and bolster support for families providing kinship care. In this brief, the authors highlight where progress has been made—and where the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) could still take additional steps in 2024.
Related Topic: Foster Care
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This study aimed to explore variability in adaptive functioning in social competence, mental health, and school adjustment in a sample of children in foster care in Spain, and to assess which factors differentiated resilient children (i.e., showing adaptive functioning across domains) from those who were not resilient.
Related Topic: Foster Care
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Policies, Standards, and Guidelines | | |
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Hong Kong: Hello, Can You Hear Me? Implementing Article 12 of the UNCRC in the Hong Kong Legal Setting
This research is part of a wider project commissioned by the Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights (HKCCR), a non-governmental organisation originally formed in 1992 to promote, advance and ensure the rights of the child in Hong Kong. The aim of the wider project was to establish an independent baseline study on the rights of the Child to be heard
on the implementation of Article 12 across all relevant sectors in Hong Kong, from constitutional and high-level policy-making to health and education to matters of leisure, culture and built environment, amongst others.
Related Topic: Child Care and Protection Policies
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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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Mental Health and Transitions for Care-Experienced Young People
Bethan Carter, a research associate at Cardiff University, discusses the ReThink Project; a project run in collaboration with Adoption UK and Coram Voice to investigate what processes are linked to mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced young people and how they manage at two key transitions in life.
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AUSTRALIA: Children's Care Rights Not Being Met, Commissioner Says
Ethan James - The Canberra Times 29 Nov 2023
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AUSTRALIA: A Class Action Alleging Racist Child Removals Could Have Wider Ripples
Matt Dennien - WAToday 27 Nov 2023
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US: New Federal Rules for Foster Care Could, Critics Say, Rip Apart Families
MJ Koch - New York Sun 27 Nov 2023
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Newsletter participants, currently 5,233 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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