Partner Resources

The ‘Caring for Children on the Move’ community is primarily aimed at practitioners and service providers working with children on the move, but is also relevant to programme managers, policymakers and academics working in the sector. The aim of the space is to build a global and collaborative group of stakeholders that works together to build support for change for children on the move, ultimately contributing to ensuring all children on the move are safe to live and develop, protected from harm, and can fully access their right to family care. Topics covered can range from preventing family separation, improving integration and reintegration, supporting mental health and increasing participation of children and young people on the move in the matters that affect them. Through this space members will also receive regular updates about the activities and projects taking place within the Family for Every Child alliance in relation to children on the move portfolio. Over 2024, the space will host a series of Q&A sessions, webinars and discussions, specifically focusing on Family’s newly-published ‘Supporting Integration’ toolkit!

US Based, this comprehensive child welfare resource provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, permanency, and older youth in care. The data are essential to help policymakers understand how many children and youth come in contact with the child welfare system, and why. States can use this information to ensure that their child welfare systems support the safety, stability, and well-being of all families in their state.

Global estimates suggest that more than half (1 billion) of the world’s children aged 2–17 experienced physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse during the past year.1 Addressing violence against children and adolescents is part of UNICEF’s core mission to protect the health and well-being of children and adolescents, grounded in gender equality programming priorities articulated in the 2018–2021 Gender Action Plan and the 2018–2021 Strategic Plan, particularly Goal Area 3: Every child is protected from violence and exploitation. As UNICEF prepares a new Child Protection Strategy and Gender Policy to accompany the next organization-wide Strategic Plan, this paper examines how and why UNICEF and international partners should pay greater attention to gender dimensions of violence against children and adolescents (VAC/A), including drivers of violence and opportunities for more effective violence prevention and response. Greater attention to gender across all violence programming and evidence generation responds to recommendations of evaluations of UNICEF’s work on violence,2 child protection,3 and Gender Action Plans.4,5 This paper also explores the rationale for greater attention to links among different forms of violence across the lifespan, including ways in which violence against adult women, particularly intimate partner violence (IPV) affects children’s and adolescents’ health, well-being and risk of violence, and the implications of those intersections for UNICEF’s violence prevention and response programming.

Thorn published youth-centered research that digs into the experiences of German youth (aged 12-16) with online sexual harms, including cold solicitations, online grooming, sexting, NCII, and the hurdles they face in disclosing their experiences. GERMAN Version

Thorn published youth-centered research that digs into the experiences of French youth (aged 12-16) with online sexual harms, including cold solicitations, online grooming, sexting, NCII, and the hurdles they face in disclosing their experiences. FRENCH VERSION

This TL;DR video presents an overview of the critical research, “Enhancing a Survivor-Centred Approach to Healthcare Provision in Afghanistan,” from the Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect. The study focuses on the unique challenges male victims/survivors of sexual violence face in accessing healthcare services in Afghanistan, a context deeply affected by conflict.