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CARE RESOURCES

Publications for care professionals

Applying Safe Behaviors

Proventing and Responding to Peer Violence Amongst Children and Young People

Peer relationships are important to children and young people. However, when peer on peer violence occurs, this is harmful and can have a detrimental impact on a child or young person’s emotional, physical and mental well-being.

A Culturally Sensitive Approach

Annex to the Safe Places, Thriving Children Practice Guidance

This tool provides guidance for social workers working with unaccompanied refugee and migrant children on how to use trauma-informed practices in a culturally sensitive way.

Safe Places, Thriving Children

How to develop trauma-informed organizations

This tool aims to help organizations that care for and support children and young adults in alternative care become more trauma-informed in order to recognize, respond to and support those who have experienced trauma.

Safe Places, Thriving Children

Practice Guidance 

The purpose of this guidance is to improve understanding and practice in relation to working with children and young adults who live in alternative care settings and who may have experienced trauma.

Toolkit for Young People’s Participation in Advocacy

Caring for young people to support their participation in advocacy activities

The guide builds on standards of safeguarding in youth participation and addresses specific implications of involving young people with care experience.

Prepare for Leaving Care 

Practice Guidance

This resource seeks to promote improvement in practice, stimulate reflection and provide material on how to best plan the transition to independence with and for young people and support them both during and after leaving care.

Realizing Children's Rights

A training manual for care profesionals working with children in alternative care

This handbook for care professionals draws on best practice from a range of countries, and was tested in international trainings with hundreds of care professionals.

Securing Children’s Rights

A Guide for Professionals Working in Alternative Care

This guide promotes a child rights-based approach to alternative child care practice and aims to help professionals understand and support the rights of the children and young people with whom they work. 

Read more about preventing childhood trauma 

Download our global, pioneering research, “A Child’s Road to Resilience: The science behind the importance of nurturing relationships in child and youth development,” to discover how trusting relationships are crucial in cultivating thriving children, healthy adults and resilient communities. 

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Learn more about ending violence against children 

Violence against children creates lasting trauma that extends well into adulthood. Discover how we prevent violence, break cycles of abuse and build safer, healthier futures for children.

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Help prevent and promote healing from childhood trauma 

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