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Better Parenting Plus: Community Discussion Guide

June 24, 2016

The Better Parenting Plus: Community Discussion Guide has been designed for use with the CRS Savings and Internal Lending (SILC) methodology to guide weekly discussions involving parents and caregivers. Catholic Relief Services collaborated with TPO/Uganda to adapt Better Parenting Plus specifically for its USAID-supported program “Sustainable Outcomes for Children and Youth” in Uganda. Better Parenting Plus evolved… View Article

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Early Childhood Developmental Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: National, Regional, and Global Prevalence Estimates Using Predictive Modeling

June 7, 2016

This study aims to establish the number of preschool aged children in 35 low and middle income countries with low cognitive and/or socio-emotional development through the use of population-representative data. Measures of cognition for young children included the ability to comprehend directions and work independently on tasks in the cognitive domain. Measures of socio-emotional growth… View Article

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A Review of Five Years of Workforce Strengthening: The State of the Social Service Workforce 2016 Report

June 6, 2016

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance produces a State of the Social Service Workforce Alliance Report to gather the evidence into a stronger base for advocacy to improve the quality of care provided to vulnerable children and families. In 2016, the Alliance issued their second report in which they assess the evolution of the social… View Article

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From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts

Early childhood is a time of great change and growth. As such, signficiant disadvantages in the lives of young children can undermine their development and limit their future economic and social mobility. While many leaders in the field of early childhood education are engaged in efforts to improve the quality of early childhood development programs,… View Article

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Investing in children & families to avoid unnecessary separation

May 6, 2016

In Africa, civil society is tremendously getting active in the movement pushing for investment for children and families so as to prevent the unnecessarily separation of family members. Civil society organisations are meaningfully and structurally involved in the process of investment for children by governments. Hence, civil society organisations take part in developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating social and… View Article

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Strengthening Economic Opportunities for Vulnerable Girls and Their Families: Programmatic Recommendations

Go Girls Initiative! conducted a literature review to better understand girls’ HIV vulnerability factors; the review highlighted poverty as a main HIV risk factor for adolescent girls. Specifically, the research showed that poorer girls were more likely to engage in transactional sex and sexual relationships with older men. Poverty also interacted with other risk factors,… View Article

Supporting CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIV

April 19, 2016

To address the high numbers of HIV-infected children and low numbers receiving treatment, UNICEF, UNAIDS, USAID and other partners developed a global plan to increase life-saving strategies to eliminate new HIV infections in children, keep their mothers alive, and “achieve an AIDS-free generation by 2015.” The global plan’s three goals are to: Reduce new HIV… View Article

Supporting CHILDREN LIVING WITH DISABILITIES

The Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) defines persons with disabilities as: “… those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.” (1) There are many different types of disabilities;… View Article

Supporting CHILD-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS

In recent years, the AIDS pandemic has left countless children orphaned, vulnerable, and without extended families to care for them, resulting in an increase in child-headed households. With the existence of child-headed households, it is evident that traditional coping mechanisms and extended family systems have been stretched far beyond capacity. While the numbers of children… View Article

ALTERNATIVE CARE FOR CHILDREN

Evidence-based research demonstrates that children fare best when they live with their families in communities. Moving Forward: Implementing the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2013), builds on the 2009 Guidelines’ core messages emphasizing the critical importance of family-centered care. However in some circumstances keeping children in their families is not always possible and… View Article

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