BICE & End Violence are holding a four-webinar series in March 2021.

These modules are aimed at practitioners from different sectors – notably social welfare, justice, telecommunications, education, health and planning – committed to addressing violence against children. The aim is to further mobilize BICE Members and other relevant partners on issues of violence against children, foster engagement in INSPIRE programs and provide technical skills related to implementing the approaches to INSPIRE Strategy areas. Participants will be encouraged to make links between these intervention areas and engage throughout the webinars.

In webinar one, Sabine Rakotomalala, Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, will explore the INSPIRE Seven Strategies.

Learn more about this series of events in English, French and Spanish.

This free Journal Club features the 2019 Article of the Year (Dierkhising, Ford, Branson, Grasso & Lee) on children who have been exposed to multiple and varied traumatic stressors and the differences in outcomes for these polyvictimized children.

One of the study's co-authors, Dr. Julian Ford, will discuss empirical findings on youth who have experienced psychological trauma by the time they reach adolescence and how they vary in the extent and types of trauma that occurred at different points in their childhood. Some youth experience trauma primarily in only one developmental period (e.g., early childhood, middle childhood, or adolescence), but many others have faced multiple types of trauma in several (or all) developmental periods. The authors found that certain scenarios lead to substantial impact on socioemotional adjustment, which has critical implications for the treatment of adolescents.

It’s safe to say that online learning has become an integral part of many public servants’ work. But have you ever wondered what good online learning actually looks like - and how to make learning stick?

Join this workshop to get an insider’s look at how Apolitical brings online learning to life for public servants around the world. You’ll hear from our instructional designer and two members of our Campaigns team, to find out what goes into creating an Apolitical learning experience, from design principles to choosing the right content and format — and discover how you can get involved in creating one of your own.

YOU'LL LEARN:

• Insights about how public servants around the world learn
• Fundamental instructional design principles to incorporate into your own learning
• Ways you can get involved in creating learning resources with Apolitical

Sri Lanka became a pathfinding country of the Partnership to End Violence against Children in 2018 and thereby Sri Lanka made a pledge to develop and implement a new strategy in line with the SDG 2030 Agenda, to contribute to a world where all children grow up free from violence and exploitation.

In line with the government objective and its global commitment, the consortium to End Online Violence against Children led by Save the Children International Sri Lanka country office, World Vision and LEADS received a global fund to strengthen the national mechanisms to prevent and to respond to online violence against children and to support victimized children of online violence. This is the first attempt to have a national scale project to address online violence against children spanning over academia, victim protection, prosecution, educational and technological spheres in Sri Lanka. All the project activities are pilot interventions tested out for the first time in the country which is unique due to creativity and innovations embedded to tackle online violence against children. The flow of activities include:

1. Conducting a national research on the incidence, nature and scope of online violence against children, and the mechanism that respond to cases of online violence against children
2. Launching an online course for children about cyber safety
3. Establishing and strengthening a Cybercrime Investigation Unit at the National Child Protection Authority
4. Developing a mobile application to report cases related to online violence against children
5. Developing a multi-country, child-led “Web fighter” study guide to increase awareness among children
6. Developing a fully costed national response mechanism to respond violence against children
7. Capacity Building Programme for Child Care Service Providers

EOVAC Sri Lanka project is coming to a close on 5th of March 2021, yielding many positive outcomes and learnings for local and global counterparts of similar interest. Before its closure, Save the Children Country office in Sri Lanka with World Vision Lanka and LEADS together with the Global Partnership to End Violence wish to share the learnings of the project locally and internationally during the event EOVAC Learnings from Sri Lanka.

The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) in cooperation with the National Center for Missing Children in Albania is proposing the implementation of the AMBER Alert for Albania. The urgent need for the AMBER Alert system is based on the increase in the sexual exploitation of children, the high number of children at risk of trafficking, children away from home, and the growing number of missing children.

The AMBER alert system aims to protect all those missing children who are in a life-threatening situation. Today, the AMBER Alert system is being used in 32 countries in Europe and around the world. As of December 2020, over 1,030 children have been found because of the AMBER Alert system. In 2019, ICMEC hired an Albanian expert to examine the current situation in Albania regarding missing children and to provide practical solutions on how AMBER Alert can be activated and functional in Albania for every child and adolescent who needs it.

All these issues, and how Albania can become part of, and create the AMBER Alert, will be discussed at the round table meeting "Can Albania Implement the AMBER Alert System?", which will be held ONLINE on Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 2:30 pm. Attendees will include representatives from the Ministry of Interior; Ministry of Health and Social Protection; General Directorate of the Police; members of the Albanian Parliament, representatives of the Ministry of Justice, U.S. Embassy, representatives of the media and other organizations are invited to attend this meeting.

To be part of this meeting, please confirm your participation by 22 February 2021 at: crca@crca.al

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers across the globe are attempting to find out how the health and socioeconomic crisis brought about by the coronavirus is affecting children’s exposure to violence. Four articles published in the Child Abuse and Neglect Journal provide valuable insights. The findings will be presented in a series of webinars. This fifth and final webinar will discuss what we have learned, what remains unknown and the opportunities that lie ahead with regards to violence against children in the time of COVID-19.

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers across the globe are attempting to find out how the health and socioeconomic crisis brought about by the coronavirus is affecting children’s exposure to violence. Four articles published in the Child Abuse and Neglect Journal provide valuable insights. The findings will be presented in a series of webinars. This fourth webinar will discuss modelled effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent discipline against children.

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers across the globe are attempting to find out how the health and socioeconomic crisis brought about by the coronavirus is affecting children’s exposure to violence. Four articles published in the Child Abuse and Neglect Journal provide valuable insights. The findings will be presented in a series of webinars. This third webinar will discuss the latest research on violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers across the globe are attempting to find out how the health and socioeconomic crisis brought about by the coronavirus is affecting children’s exposure to violence. Four articles published in the Child Abuse and Neglect Journal provide valuable insights. The findings will be presented in a series of webinars. This second webinar will discuss the change in use of helplines.