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FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar: Holistic school-based food & nutrition education for healthy and sustainable diets- October 2019
What is the role of school-based food and nutrition education (SFNE) in promoting healthy and sustainable diets? What is the current SFNE situation in low and middle-income countries (LMICs)? What is needed to improve SFNE’s impact on children’s diets in
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Transitioning to Family Care for Children
Within the global Church, a growing movement recognizes the importance of family in the life of every child and strives to ensure that children are cared for within families, rather than in institutions. Faith to Action created these three resources to co
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FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar: Re-imagining School Health- Maximizing Investment in Human Capital and Rural Economies- April 2019
The past few years have seen a sea change in how the world invests; its young people, well beyond early childhood and all the way into their transition towards adulthood. As the World Bank's Human Capital Index shows, people are an economy's main source
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FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar: Multilevel Parenting Package for Life Skills Promotion in Challenged and Humanitarian Settings- June 2019
What evidence-based approaches to reduce risky behaviors and promote positive mental health are available in challenged and humanitarian settings? How can caregivers be better parents and strengthen positive age-appropriate family functioning and general
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The Regional Learning Network: A model for improving maternal and newborn health care outcomes in Uganda
To address high levels of mortality, Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has prioritized quality improvement (QI) efforts for maternal and newborn health (MNH). The Regional Learning Network initiative (RLN) was piloted in Hoima from May 2016 to June 2017 w
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The Importance of Social Work Supervision and Supervision Training
Social work supervision plays a critical role in quality assurance, social worker capacity building, problem-solving in complex cases and the early identification of vicarious trauma in social workers. It contributes towards improved outcomes for children
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Innovation in school-based MHM programming: How do we know what works?
Schools are a popular locus of menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) programming. Although the linkages between addressing MHH in schools and school attendance have been globally emphasised, there is little rigorous evidence. We do know that supporting girls
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Referral Practices for Sick Newborns with Possible Serious Bacterial Infection in Ethiopia: Lessons for program improvement
Ethiopia’s Community-Based Newborn Care (CBNC) program seeks to reduce newborn mortality and serve the most vulnerable populations by bringing health services closer to communities. Core elements of CBNC include early identification and timely, appropriat
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A Cost of the Diet Analysis in Sylhet & Moulvibazar District in North-East Bangladesh, December 2018
The Cost of the Diet (CotD) assessment in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts in 2018 was conducted to estimate the potential contribution of Suchana programme interventions on household food affordability. This analysis aimed at assessing the degree to whic
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The Impact of the Care Setting on Child Rehabilitation
In this video, Sreyna and Chenda, two practitioners from Hagar Cambodia, discuss their learning regarding the impact of the care setting on child rehabilitation. By comparing the differences observed in the rehabilitation process for children supported in
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Family Tracing Post Child Abandonment at Hospital
In this two-part video, Sorn Sokchea discusses the medical social work program run by Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia, that aims to prevent and respond to child abandonment with the goal of strengthening families to provide adequate care for thei
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The Toolkit for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
The Toolkit for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings was developed by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support and World Vision International. The toolkit provides a set o