COVID-19 impact on risk and protective factors through a child development lens

Joan Lombardi is an international expert on child development and child and family policy. Listen to her audio recording as she outlines the impact of COVID-19 on risk and protective factors through a developmental lens.

Your Task

Consider the children you are working with or that your programmes engage. How is the protection and well-being of children in the following age brackets affected differently by COVID-19 in your context?

• Newborns and babies in the first months and years of life

• Toddlers

• Preschool children

• School-aged children

• Adolescents

How do other factors, such as gender and ability, increase the severity of exposure to certain risk factors in COVID-19?

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