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      Special Issue on Street-Connected Children

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      Focus of this Training

      It has now been over half a decade since the rights of street-connected children were formally and explicitly recognized by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in its General Comment No. 21 (2017) on children in street situations. While incremental steps have been taken since its adoption, little has improved for these vulnerable children. A special issue on street-connected children published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect aims to cast light on the current situation of these children in a range of countries. This publication serves as an important platform for discussion on the challenges faced by street-connected children and how we can effectively respond to these issues.

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      Recording - Special Issue Journal Street-connected Children

      Journal Club Date:

      April 12, 2023

      Region:

      Global

      Topics:

      Street and Working Children
      Street-connected children
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      Learning Objectives:

      To Bring light to the issue with data
      Given the severe deprivations and rights violations that they face on a daily basis, it is imperative that professionals working directly or indirectly with them possess a keen understanding of their lived realities.
      Explore how stigma and discrimination of street connected children were produced and reproduced in specific contexts of culture and power.
      Discrimination can lead to exclusion from social and economic life. Devalued status serves to limit access to societal resources and deemed them unworthy of equal rights.
      Compare recent child abuse (physical, emotional, and sexual) between orphaned and separated children and adolescents (OSCA) living in institutional environments and those in family-based care
      Compared to those in family-based care, street-connected participants had a much higher reported prevalence of all types of recent abuse at baseline, in follow-up and over time
      Explore how homelessness and child maltreatment are related to decreased child school engagement
      Is homelessness is related to increased rates of Child Protective Services (CPS) Involvement

      Presented By:

      Chris
      Christine Wekerle
      Editor-in-Chief Child Abuse & Neglect
      Claudia
      Claudia Cappa
      Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring Data and Analytics UNICEF
      Lizet
      Lizet Vlamings
      Former Director of Programmes Consortium for Street Children
      Pia
      Pia MacRae
      Chief Executive Officer Consortium for Street Children
      Allison
      Allison Gayapersad
      University of Toronto
      Lonnie
      Lonnie Embleton
      Assistant Professor and Adolescent Health Advisor Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY Department of Global Health and Health System Design
      Shona
      Shona Macleod
      Lecturer in International Development King’s College London
      Amanda
      Amanda Miller
      University of the Sunshine Coast Australia
      Lucas
      Dr. Lucas Neiva-Silva
      Professor at the Graduate Program in Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil
      Alyssa
      Alyssa R. Palmer
      Ph.D. Candidate Institute of Child Development, University Of Minnesota
      Shanti
      Shanti Raman
      Director-Community Paediatrics South Western Sydney Local Health District
      Pragathi
      Pragathi Tummala
      Executive Director & CEO ISPCAN

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