Journal Club

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

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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:

Christine Wekerle

Editor-in-Chief Child Abuse & Neglect

Claudia Cappa

Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring Data and Analytics UNICEF

Lizet Vlamings

Former Director of Programmes Consortium for Street Children

Pia MacRae

Chief Executive Officer Consortium for Street Children

Allison Gayapersad

University of Toronto

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