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Journal article

Family‎ violence‎ and‎ its ‎impact‎ on‎ children’s ‎mental‎ health during COVID-19 pandemic

AUTHOR(S)
Zinab M. Shokair; Eid G. Abo Hamza

Published: August 2020 Journal: International Journal of Instructional Technology and Educational Studies

This research aims to identify the types and prevalence rates of family violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. It also aims to identify the mental health problems those child victims of family violence develop, and the differences between children who experience high and low family violence rates.

Discussion paper

Elementary and secondary school children: vulnerabilities of online learning

AUTHOR(S)
Jolan Marchese

Published: August 2020

Since December 2019, countries around the world have borne the impact of a virus that has altered the way that we do business, interact socially and receive our education. While COVID-19 has had a detrimental impact upon the world, it has also lead to a more in-depth look at the education of our children from elementary school up to secondary school. Cybersecurity is an issue for everyone, but children are a particularly vulnerable population because many are raised playing with a cellphone or a tablet and have not truly learned about the dangers involved with accessing the Internet. Instead, it’s a play area for children as they watch YouTube videos or even access social media with or without their parent’s consent.

Cite this research | Language: English | Topics: Education, Child Protection | Tags: child safety, COVID-19 response, educational policy, internet, remote learning, school attendance

Policy brief

Learning from youth in West Africa in COVID-19

Published: August 2020

When speaking about the impact of COVID-19 on their lives, young women and young men prioritize different areas. Young women are more likely to speak to the importance of COVID-19’s impact on education, food, and safety. Both young women and young men prioritize impacts on income, but for young men, this is a much bigger concern. Only young women are raising concerns about access to information, implying that this is a bigger obstacle and gap for young women than it is for young men.

Cite this research | No. of pages: 6 | Language: English | Topics: Child Protection, Social Protection, Well-being and Equity | Tags: adolescent girls, adolescents, COVID-19 response, education, food, gender analysis, income, multi-country

Journal article

COVID-19 and refugee and immigrant youth: a community-based mental health perspective

AUTHOR(S)
Tarik Endale; Nicole St. Jean; Dina Birman

Published: August 2020 Journal: Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

This article is acomment on the experience of the Kovler Center Child Trauma Program (KCCTP) following the March 21, 2020, shelter at home order in Chicago due to COVID-19. The KCCTP is a program of Heartland Alliance International that was founded in 2018 to provide community-based mental health and social services to immigrant and refugee youth and families who have experienced trauma. COVID-19 temporarily closed the doors of the center, suspending provision of in-person services in the community, and the program was forced to become remote overnight. The KCCTP rapidly transitioned to providing accessible information, active outreach, extensive case management, and flexible delivery of teletherapy and online psychosocial support, finding that attending to structural barriers and basic needs was crucial to family engagement and therapeutic success. Ongoing challenges include technological proficiency and access to computers, Internet, and private spaces.

following the March 21, 2020, shelter at home order in Chicago due to COVID-19. The KCCTP is a

program of Heartland Alliance International that was founded in 2018 to provide community-based

mental health and social services to immigrant and refugee youth and families who have experienced

trauma. COVID-19 temporarily closed the doors of the center, suspending provision of in-person services

in the community, and the program was forced to become remote overnight. The KCCTP rapidly

transitioned to providing accessible information, active outreach, extensive case management, and

flexible delivery of teletherapy and online psychosocial support, finding that attending to structural

barriers and basic needs was crucial to family engagement and therapeutic success. Ongoing challenges

include technological proficiency and access to computers, Internet, and private spaces.

Commentaries and Think Pieces

Ascending child sexual abuse statistics in India during COVID-19 lockdown: a darker reality and alarming mental health concerns

AUTHOR(S)
Shuvabrata Poddar; Urbi Mukherjee

Published: August 2020 Journal: Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

This short commentary is about the need for proper circulation of information and services for protection of children from violence, abuse, and neglect during COVID-19 in India.

Commentaries and Think Pieces

After COVID-19, a future for the world's children?

AUTHOR(S)
Helen Clark; Awa Marie Coll-Seck; Anshu Banerjee (et al.)

Institution: WHO, *UNICEF, The Lancet
Published: August 2020 Journal: The Lancet

This report shows how children are less affected clinically by COVID-19 than adults. Nonetheless, children are impacted by the pandemic’s indirect effects, not least from separation or loss in their own families. Projections suggest that over a million preventable child deaths might occur due to decreased access to food and disruption of essential health services. Children risk missing out on growth monitoring, preventive care, and timely management of acute disease and injuries.

Research Report

The impact of COVID-19 on migrant children in Trinidad and Tobago

Institution: *UNICEF, USAID
Published: August 2020

This analysis focuses on the following COVID-19-related impacts that could affect the well-being of children: disruption to education, rising unemployment, mental health and safety, and risks to nutrition.

Policy brief

Protecting children from violence in the time of COVID-19

Institution: *UNICEF
Published: August 2020 UNICEF Publication

This UNICEF publication, Protecting Children from Violence in the Time of COVID-19: Disruptions in prevention and response services, documents what has happened to such services across the world:
-1.8 billion children live in the 104 countries where violence prevention and response services have been disrupted due to COVID-19.
-Case management and home visits for children and women at risk of abuse are among the most commonly disrupted services.
-Around two thirds of countries with disruptions reported that at least one type of service had been severely affected; however, two thirds of countries reported that mitigating measures had been put into place.
In times of crisis, governments should prioritize maintaining or adapting critical prevention and response services to protect children from violence, including designating social service workers as essential and ensuring they are protected, strengthening child helplines, and making positive parenting resources available.

Research Report

Tackling the COVID-19 employment crisis in Asia and the Pacific

Institution: International Labour Organisation, Asian Development Bank
Published: August 2020

Young people’s employment prospects in Asia and the Pacific are severely challenged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Youth will be hit harder than adults in the immediate crisis and also will bear higher longer-term economic and social costs. Before the pandemic, young people were already facing challenges in the labour market. These are worsened by the COVID-19 crisis, and its multiple effects threaten to create a “lockdown generation” that will feel the weight of this crisis for a long time.

Cite this research | No. of pages: 42 | Language: English | Topics: Child Protection | Tags: COVID-19 response, economic and social conditions, economic crisis, multi-country, social inequality, social policy, young workers, youth unemployment

Datasets

Dashboard on government responses to COVID-19 and the affected populations

Institution: UNICEF Data & Analytics
Published: August 2020 UNICEF Publication

Governments around the world have implemented a number of different measures in response to COVID-19 outbreaks. These include measures that aim to contain the spread of the virus (such as movement restrictions and border closings), measures to mitigate the economic consequences (such as income support), as well as measures related to the health system (such as testing policies and contact tracing). Billions of people are affected by these measures. Although children have been largely spared the direct health effects of COVID-19, the indirect impacts – including enormous socioeconomic challenges – are potentially catastrophic for children. For migrant and displaced children, the effects can be graver still.

Cite this research | Open access | Language: English | Topics: Health, Child Protection | Tags: child care services, COVID-19 response

Evidence Synthesis and other Reviews

School closure in response to epidemic outbreaks: Systems-based logic model of downstream impacts

AUTHOR(S)
Dylan Kneale; Alison O'Mara-Eves; Rebecca Rees

Published: August 2020

School closures have been a recommended non-pharmaceutical intervention in pandemic response owing to the potential to reduce transmission of infection between children, school staff and those that they contact. However, given the many roles that schools play in society, closure for any extended period is likely to have additional impacts. Literature reviews of research exploring school closure to date have focused upon epidemiological effects; there is an unmet need for research that considers the multiplicity of potential impacts of school closures.

Journal article

Suffering in silence: how COVID-19 school closures inhibit the reporting of child maltreatment

AUTHOR(S)
E. Jason Baron; Ezra G. Goldstein; Cullen T. Wallace

Published: August 2020 Journal: Journal of Public Economics

This study examines an unexplored consequence of COVID-19 school closures: the broken link between child maltreatment victims and the number one source of reported maltreatment allegations---school personnel.

Journal article

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on children in domestic violence refuges

AUTHOR(S)
Carolina Øverlien

Published: August 2020 Journal: Child Abuse Review

The COVID‐19 pandemic has resulted in negative consequences for children exposed to violence and abuse. Domestic violence refuge staff were greatly concerned about children both living outside and inside refuges. Domestic violence refuges have played a pivotal role during the COVID‐19 pandemic and should receive wider acknowledgement and greater support for their work.

Journal article

COVID-19 enters a new arena: how do we help families prepare for return to school?

AUTHOR(S)
Dana Abenstein

Published: August 2020 Journal: Canadian Family Physician

This article tries to provide parents with ideas on how to help children to adjust to school reopening.

Journal article

Care in crisis: COVID-19 as a catalyst for universal child care in the United States

AUTHOR(S)
Nicole M. Elias; Maria J. D’Agostino

Published: August 2020 Journal: Administrative Theory & Praxis

School closings during COVID-19 exposed an under-addressed gender equity issue in the United States: child care in crisis. To better understand the child care crisis in the current U.S. context, we detail how New York City is addressing child care during COVID-19. We then connect the current approaches to the Lanham Act that was instituted during WWII as a historical parallel. Ultimately, we argue for the adoption of a universal system that is affordable, high-quality, federally-funded with local involvement and discretion, and flexible for primary caregivers seeking care support. This potential system builds on current congressional proposals and should take into account the challenges primary caregivers face in order to disrupt gender imbalances in care, and in turn, produce greater gender equity. COVID-19 is an opportunity to instill lasting change by improving the current U.S. child care model.

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