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Taking a cross-disciplinary approach to strengthening families, the Family Engagement Inventory is designed to familiarize professionals in child welfare, juvenile justice, behavioral health, early childhood education, and education with family engagement as defined and implemented across these fields of practice.

The IFSW has developed this document to help social workers understand what is required to promote human rights within the European Region.

This paper reflects a key ongoing debate within different contexts around the world, on which many authors have provided comment over the years, and the case of South Africa is examined.

The National Association of Social Workers (U.S) previously developed these standards and indicators in 2007, which are revised in this publication to provide additional guidance on the implementation and realization of culturally competent practice.

The social care service sector remains an underdeveloped sector in Turkey. This study evaluates a demand-side economic rationale for public investment in the social care sector by estimating its potential for employment creation, pro-women allocation of jobs, and poverty alleviation.

Individual to Collective Healing: A trainer’s manual is part of a War Trauma Foundation series featuring resources spanning the complementary supports that meet the mental health and psychosocial needs of different groups. The series takes a collective approach looking at how families and communities as well as individuals are impacted in times of distress. The focus of this work is mainly on capacity building of local mental health and community-based psychosocial professionals, without taking over ownership and service delivery from already active local resources.

The resources in this toolkit cover a broad range of topics related to treatment, care and support of ALHIV, including counseling, psychosocial support and promising practices.

Good staff care and psychosocial care have proven to be an important asset in stress management and the prevention and treatment of traumatic and post-traumatic stress. The Guidelines were conceptualized as a comprehensive, systematic presentation of the ‘state of the art’ in managing stress in humanitarian workers. 

La Trousse d’évaluation rapide en matière de protection de l’enfant (ERPE)contient toutes les informations nécessaires pour réaliser une ERPE sur une période de cinq semaines. Suite à une situation d’urgence d’ampleur significative, l’ERPE sera généralement réalisée dans le cadre d’évaluations coordonnées entreprises au sein du système cluster/sectoriel humanitaire.

L’objectif de cette déclaration est (i) de présenter notre vision commune des systèmes de protection de l’enfance en Afrique subsaharienne et d’expliquer pourquoi ils sont importants et méritent des investissements et lancer un appel à l’action auprès des gouvernements, à l’Union africaine.

S’Engager pour les Enfants et les Familles Afin d’é Viter la Séparation - Aujourd’hui, il est évident que les acteurs de la prise en charge des enfants et  des familles devraient s’engager d’avantage pour les enfants et les familles pour permettre leur développement harmonieux et leur participation au sein de la communauté. En Afrique, la société civile est de plus en plus active dans le mouvement encourageant l’investissement en matière de l’enfance et des familles afin de prévenir toute séparation inutile des membres de la famille.

Care Groups: Un Manuel de Formation pour l’Élaboration et la Mise en œuvre de Programme
Ce manuel a été élaboré comme une ressource de formation pour l’élaboration, la formation, la mise en œuvre et le suivi des programmes de Care Groups.

Manual de Entrenamiento para Diseño e Emplementación de Programas Fue Desarrollado
Este manual fue desarrollado como un recurso de capacitación para el diseño, formación, implementación y monitoreo de programas de Grupos de Cuidado.

This compendium demonstrates the commitment of different actors to strengthening EU action on children’s rights. It also aims to inspire action and an even more ambitious vision for the EU to play a leading role in realising the rights of every child everywhere. The document emphasizes that policy-makers at all levels, social workers, health professionals, lawyers and judges, teachers, aca­demics, researchers, and civil society must work hand in hand to provide a protective and en­abling environment for children and to ensure children’s views are respected.

Available in English, Francais and Espanol, these lessons seek to build the skills of community-level workers, including lessons for workers on the ground to use communication, storytelling, and other techniques to promote behavior change in international development.

Ces leçons ont visent à renforcer les compétences des travailleurs communautaires, par example la communication et les contes, qui peuvent aider un agent de développement dans n’importe quel secteur à devenir un agent de changement de comportement beaucoup plus efficace.

This toolkit is designed to teach basic knowledge, skills, and values about working with children who are in the child welfare system and who have experienced traumatic events. The toolkit teaches strategies for using trauma-informed child welfare practice to enhance the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families who are involved in the child welfare system.

This paper prepared by FHI 360 summarizes learning related to prevention of family-child separation, reintegration of children in family care, and economic interventions that might support these aims. It includes reference to the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance and Better Care Network working paper on Care Reform.

Several trends are leading to increased and broader involvement of volunteers in social work practice. As a consequence, social workers need to be able to manage volunteers in different settings, based on organizational/program factors and characteristics of the volunteers. Contemporary research on volunteer management can be divided into universalistic and contingency approaches.

This report aims toprovide politicians, lawmakers, the media and the wider public with important knowledge about the use of short-term foster care for some of the Czech Republic’s most vulnerable children. With the adoption into law on 1 January 2013 of an amendment on social and legal protection of children, the Czech Republic took a significant step towards reducing the number of children (especially those under three years of age) placed into institutional care.

These reports include a summary of the care-reform process of three sub-Saharan African countries - Ghana, Liberia and Rwanda. The review covers the key components of the reform including the legal and policy framework, programmes and service delivery, advocacy and networking. Country care profiles on each country provide an overview of key lessons learned in the children's care reform process within those countries.

Este taller está diseñado para entrenar los expertos técnicos en los valores y principios básicos involucrados en la labor del trabajo de Protección de  Niñez y Adolescencia.