How it works
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Course: Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children
Acknowledgements
This course has been made possible thanks to the support of all the international agencies that are members of the Taskforce, including input on technical knowledge and financial contributions. The …
CARING FOR CHILDREN MOVING ALONE: PROTECTING UNACCOMPANIED AND SEPARATED CHILDREN
Welcome to ‘Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children’. We are delighted you will be joining us. This is a course about unaccompanied and separated refugee and …
Heightened Risks to Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible the number of child protection cases will rise, including concerns for unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children. It is important to …
Planning for leaving care (Part 1)
In previous course steps we have thought about the move from care into semi-independent and independent living. We also considered some of the issues that are important to care leavers …
Thank you
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the making of this course: Members of the Caring for Children Moving Alone MOOC Taskforce A special thank you to the international agencies …
Film Production Credits
Video Content Producers for Freakworks Sinead Kirwan Chris Marks Director of Photography Tomas Sheridan Editors – Freakworks Lindsay Watson Grant Jamieson Post Production Team at Freakworks Adam Borys Grant Jamieson …
Concluding thoughts
In this video Chrissie Gale shares with you her concluding thoughts and summarises some of the main themes we have covered over the six weeks of the course. Chrissie made …
Watch Aden’s Journey: Week Six
We have reached the last episode of Aden’s Journey. We have followed Aden through his difficult journey and met the people who have either hindered or helped him along his …
Semi-independent living
In this video we hear from Giovanni, a refugee who arrived in Mexico when he was a child accompanied only by a sibling. Giovanni has moved into a semi-independent living …
Ageing out of care
Earlier this week we noted that ‘ageing out’ of care is the time when a child reaches the legal age at which they must leave their alternative care setting in …
Restoring family links
In this video you will see a meeting being held by volunteers from the Italian Red Cross on the Italian island of Sicily. The meeting is led by Santa Sicali …
Family reunification in Hitsas refugee camp
In this video you will hear about family reunification in Hitsats refugee camp in the district of Shire, in Northern Ethiopia. You will learn how unaccompanied and separated children are …
Family reunification
As we noted in the previous course steps, children and young people leave alternative care for different reasons. One reason is family reunification – whether back in a child’s own …
The importance of supporting children and young people leaving care
SOS Children’s Villages Norway has produced a video called ‘Barnas vei’ (Children’s Way) in which we see the anxiety experienced by a young person who arrived unaccompanied and is waiting …
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Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children