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News - In November 2020, the "Second Match" webinar took place, and it was addressed to specialists in sports, education and child protection. The webinar was organized by the Terre des hommes Foundation in Romania, as part of the project "Safe environment for children in sport"…
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News - COVID lockdown in the world has resulted in disturbing changes in child labor, exploitation, early marriages and abuse reports. As the education system had to implement an online schooling due to the pandemic, children, especially from disadvantaged families, were forced to…
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News - It has become clear that lots of child abuse cases went unnoticed in numerous US states over the course of the COVID pandemic. Delaware State, for instance, had a 35%-40% reduction in child abuse and neglect reports while reports from educators decreased by 89% in April.…
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News - A French organization, PLAY International got involved in a PLAY’In project that promotes a greater inclusion of children with disabilities and was implemented in 2019. The PLAY International is an organization that aims to raise awareness and educate children by means of…
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News - New research carried out at Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory may indicate that a mother experiencing high amounts of stress during pregnancy may have developmental consequences for her baby.
By studying prenatal cortisol (stress hormone) levels…
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News - In this informative report, UNICEF answers parents' questions about vaccines, and highlights the importance of vaccines that prepare the body to fight disease faster and more effectively by stimulating the child's natural defenses.
According to the…
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News - The Family safeguarding model pioneered in Hertfordshire (later included Bracknell Forest, Luton, Peterborough and West Berkshire) combines specialist adult professionals with a background in domestic abuse, mental health or substance abuse with integrated…
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News - A recently published report by IICSA points out the Catholic Church’s reluctance in tackling child sexual abuse and preferring the Church’s reputation over victims’ well-being. In their 147 page long report, the numbers of abuse victims was stated to be 3000 in the period…
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News - The Five Days of Action is a week designed to draw adults' attention to the importance of protecting children from sexual abuse. The Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges took part in this organisation, that was between the 26th and 30th of October.
This Action was about to help…
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News - The APPG (All-party Parliamentary Group in the UK) on Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention, with the help of the Samaritans, has created a report on the support of young people with self-harm and suicide issues.
The main findings were:
Young people have to wait a long…
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News - The Trevor Project, founded in 1998, has a 24-hour hotline for at-risk LGBTQ youth, with chat and text services. It also has a social network for international LGBTQ, called TrevorSpace.
The Trevor Project successfully applied for Google’s AI Impact Challenge, and received…
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Online library - The range of services aimed to support young people at risk of becoming homeless are lacking according to a new research by charity Homeless Link.
Poor welfare support, lack of information,…
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News - The National Network for Children Bulgaria (NNC) commented on the demolition of nearly 100 illegal buildings in the Roma neighborhood of Lozenets in Stara Zagora following an order from Mayor Zhivko Todorov. They described the swift solution to the illegal buildings as…
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Online library - “Stop the Secrets that Hurts” is animated video series on YouTube channel of Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center Foundation. It is a series of educational short videos that are intended to help children who suffered from…
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News - On July 3, 2020, the parliament approved the establishment of the school guard institution, and it is already known that school guards will start their work at 491 locations. The Bagázs Association shares some thoughts about this subject in its blog post. Volunteers from the…
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Online library - Meet Sangophone, who is here to support you with some tips while you are using your computers, phones, tablets, consoles and any other online device you might have.
Check the visual guides, which helps you learn how to manage risks online while…
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Psychological topics is a journal of the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, which publishes original scientific papers, reviews articles and short reports from various fields of psychology. The journal Psychological Topics under this…
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News - A campaign by the National Police Chiefs Council and The Children's Society has been launched in the UK. Its goal is to ask delivery drivers, postal workers and concerned neighbours to help fight against child abuse.
The campaign is called 'Know, Look, Act'…
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Multimedia - This study is published by Adversity and Resilience Science has examined the frequency of adolescent substance abuse between children from both alcoholic and non-alcoholic family backgrounds.
The research was done between 227 families from New York State twice with the…
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News - After two months of changed behaviour, the Australian mother started worrying about her 9-year-old’s wellbeing. The young boy became reserved, introverted and easily distracted. One day, the mother decided to take a look at her son’s phone to see what is happening. From…
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News - 'I’ll adopt a kindergarten' is an initiative in which supporters can adopt disadvantaged kindergartens, children’s workshops, study halls, and children’s homes to help children in need.
One of the institutions participating in the program is the Tiszavasvár…
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News - In Romania, the House of Representatives voted in favour of a bill, according to which children will be given sex education only if their parents request it from the school. The name of the subject has also been changed to health education.
At the same time, they voted…
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News - In an article by Dr Szilvia Gyurkó, a child right specialist, she gives some tools for parents to protect their children more effectively from paedophiles. As these are usually skilful manipulators, you cannot see from the outside what they are planning, and so it is not…
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These days, while we are all focused on #StayHome, trying to comply with all the recommended measures to end the pandemic as soon as possible, have we considered the most vulnerable groups that don’t feel safe behind closed doors? There are those to whom their home doesn’t…
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Online library - National Youth Agency (NYA) new research suggests that despite the initial decrease in gang activity, gangs have adapted to COVID-19.
According to the report ’, 60,000 young people (aged 10–17) identify as a gang member or know a gang member who is a relative.’ And…
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News - Youth services are doing everything they can to help young people in need during the Covid-19 pandemic. They are especially focused on alleviating some of the impact on young people’s mental health:
isolation, separation from safe places
increased…
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News - In October 2019, Terre des hommes launched a unique project aimed to promote child safeguarding policies in sports settings in Romania and Greece, in partnership with Tdh Hungary. Through this project, Tdh committed to ensuring that children and young people benefit from…
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Online library - Pandemics such as COVID-19 present more opportunities for exploitation and abuse. As the need for aid increases, with supply of and access to aid decreasing simultaneously, these unequal power dynamics are exacerbated further. Concurrently, due to the…
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Terre des hommes Foundation in Romania has created, together with Arhipera, the first „Guide for integrating sanitary groups in schools in rural areas” (in Romanian only), an instrument for those who must offer this facility.
A few guides have already been sent…
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Online library - The report looks at what effective youth work looks like for children and young people and the role of youth services in England in helping to tackle knife crime and serious youth violence. It looked…
