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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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Families Find a Way: Children with Disabilities in War-Torn Ukraine
Disability Rights International (DRI) asked more than 500 families living in Ukraine what they are now experiencing during the war and what they need. In interviews with DRI staff, parents lay out all the difficult challenges and barriers they face. These interviews provide a blueprint of the change that must occur – by governments, donors, policymakers, caregivers, and communities during the war and recovery process.
Related Topic: Children With Disabilities
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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. | |
Understanding the Situation | | |
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Survivor-Informed Support for Trafficked Children in Scotland
The aim of this study was to fill a gap in knowledge in relation to what constitutes recovery and effective support over a longer time frame for separated children and young people who have experienced trafficking in Scotland. The study illuminates processes that have not been previously explored with this group of children and young people in Scotland.
Related Topic: Child Exploitation
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This mixed-methods study included foster parents in six mid-Southwestern states in the U.S. Foster parents serve a critical role in the child welfare system; however, many report being dissatisfied with their role and are at risk of disruption and turnover, ultimately resulting in placement moves for youth in care. This can have negative impacts on youth well-being.
Related Topic: Foster Care
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Anti-Child Marriage Legal Guide: End Violence Against Children Program (Asia Pacific)
This Anti-Child Marriage Guide produced by World Vision aims to empower and educate users as how to best navigate regulatory hurdles that may arise when assisting children affected by child marriage. This fourth legal guide addresses frequently asked questions relating to protecting victims of child marriage in Australia, Mainland China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Related Topic: Child Exploitation
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Working Group on Orphanage Trafficking and Exploitation in Residential Care Settings
This statement was released by the Working Group on Orphanage Trafficking and Exploitation -- a global coalition of Members of Parliament, government leaders, survivor leaders, and key stakeholders committed to combatting orphanage trafficking and the exploitation through raising awareness and identifying, creating, and implementing tools that curb the demand for orphanage trafficking and stop the exploitation of children in residential care settings, including orphanages. The Working group aims to raise awareness and combat orphanage trafficking at the policy level globally.
Related Topic: Child Exploitation
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Asia Pacific Legal Guide: Child Trafficking
This Child Trafficking Legal Guide produced by Baker McKenzie, World Vision, State Street and 3M aims to empower and educate users on how to best navigate regulatory hurdles that may arise when assisting children affected by human trafficking.
Related Topic: Child Exploitation
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La Guía para facilitadores de “Educando en Familia” es una guía realizada por “Cambiando La Forma en que Cuidamos Guatemala” y está basada en la metodología de Educando en Familia de la Secretaría de Bienestar Social de la Presidencia de la Republica de Guatemala, la guía proporciona herramientas, dinámicas y técnicas para trabajar el programa con grupos de padres, madres y cuidadores; la guía está dirigida a las personas que facilitan el programa o que están certificados para replicarlo por SBS.
Related Topic: Parenting Support
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Prevention of Separation Learning Package
This introductory learning module has been developed by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. The learning module is designed to strengthen participants' overall understanding of prevention related elements from the UASC Handbook and Toolkit and the ACE Toolkit.
Related Topic: Preventing Separation
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Kinship Care in Kakuma Refugee Camp: Kenya
This case study documents the journey of Okot, one of many children in the Kakuma camp in Kenya, living with relatives. There are over 8,000 unaccompanied and separated children living in the Kakuma and Kalobeyei camps, the majority of whom are in kinship care (children cared for by relatives or friends of the family).
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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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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New Transforming Children's Care Collaborative Taskforce | | |
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The goal of this task force is to exchange learning on social service workforce development in the process of care reform, with a view to documenting a range of country-level examples which will, in turn, inform the development of a set of concise policy recommendations for a thematic brief.
The task force is co-convened by the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance and UNICEF HQ Child Protection Division.
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The Role of Kinship Carers in Supporting Kinship Care
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.
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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