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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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Understanding the Situation | |
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Ending Child Marriage: A profile of progress in India
India has made remarkable progress toward ending child marriage according to this UNICEF report, though this country remains home to the largest number of child brides worldwide. Despite advancements on many fronts, the rate of decline is not sufficient to reach the target of eliminating the practice by 2030, as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Related Topic: Child Exploitation
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Orphanage Trafficking and the Sustainable Development Goals
This article published in the April issue of the Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond journal, examines the intersections of orphanage trafficking, a form of child trafficking and modern slavery, and the sale and sexual exploitation of children with reference to the Sustainable Development Goals worldwide. It highlights the special protection needs of children residing in institutions and outlines how orphanage tourism and funding undermine care reform efforts of national authorities.
Related Topic: Residential Care
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Policies, Standards, and Guidelines | |
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Kinship Care in India: A Case Study Documentation
The IACN report draws on the experiences of eight families in kinship care arrangements in India and the children placed with them. It outlines the importance of families for the emotional, physical, and cognitive growth of children.
Related Topic: Kinship Care
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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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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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Kinship Care During Emergencies and Across Borders
This Family for Every Child webinar explores approaches to supporting kinship care during crises (including political and economic crises in Lebanon); the support needs of Ukrainian refugees in kinship care in the UK and examples of how cross-border placements into kinship care can be effectively supported.
Related Topic: Kinship Care
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A Foster Care System Where Every Child Has a Loving Home
In the U.S., youth in foster care are nearly twice as likely as war veterans to suffer from PTSD. Placed in foster care at just 11 months old, Sixto Cancel experienced the faults of the system firsthand. Now, he's the founder of Think of Us, an organization working to reform child welfare by centering kinship care, or placing a child with an extended family member or a familiar adult.
Related Topic: Kinship Care
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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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