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Our First Baby: Health education for adolescents who are pregnant or first-time parents
The Our First Baby Facilitator’s Guide contains nine participatory sessions to be used in small group sessions with first-time mothers and their male partners. Sessions covered fertility, antenatal care, care of the mother during pregnancy, first-time fat
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Are the World's Richest Countries Family Friendly? Policy in the OECD and EU
Children get a better start in life and parents are better able to balance work and home commitments in countries that have family-friendly policies. These include paid parental leave, support for breastfeeding and affordable, high-quality childcare and p
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Better Parenting Curriculum Nigeria
The ability to parent well is not necessarily intuitive – an individual’s parenting style is influenced by aspects of his or her own history, personality and temperament, together with characteristics of the child, such as age or temperament. Class, cultu
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Parenting Interventions: How well do they transport from one country to another?
UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti has worked on research related to support for families and parents since 2013. In particular, Innocenti supported research on the Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme for Parents and Teens by partnering with Oxford Univ
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Caregiver Psychosocial Wellbeing and Family Violence: A scoping review of factors that affect the wellbeing of children in humanitarian crisis
Children make up more than 50% of the population affected by humanitarian crisis. Although it has been shown that a stable, nurturing and safe home environment can help mitigate the negative effects of ambient violence and instability, with deteriorating
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Better Parenting Plus: Community discussion guide (Uganda)
The Better Parenting Plus Community Discussion Guide is intended to facilitate guided discussions and learning by parents, caregivers and others, all of whom are members of SILC (Savings and Internal Lending Communities). The focus is on improving parenti
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Child Protection Sessions for Caregivers and Parents. Training Toolkit [Lebanon]
These sessions are designed to help parents to better care for their children and to protect them from all forms of violence. This tool has adapted by Save the Children to the Lebanon context. It is based on a tool developed in Jordan as part of an intera
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Does Parent's Psychological Distress Mediate the Relationship Between War Trauma and Psychosocial Adjustment in Children?
This study investigated the impact of war trauma on behavioral and emotional disorders, and neuroticism in children by prospectively examining the potential mediator and/or moderator effects of parental psychological distress. The sample consisted of 205
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Queriendo se entiende la familia: Guía de intervención sobre parentalidad positiva para profesionales
Queriendo se entiende la familia: Guía de intervención sobre parentalidad positiva para profesionales, is a positive parenting intervention guide developed by Save the Children Spain. The guide is intended for professionals with training in the educat
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Child Protection Sessions for Parents and Caregivers. Training Toolkit
This toolkit was originally created for Jordan, with special emphasis on Syrian refugees, but the issues dealt with in the toolkit can be applied to any country. The development of this tool was an interagency initiative led by Save the Children Internati
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Alternative care in Laos: An exploratory study with children and caregivers
An exploratory study undertaken by Save the Children in 2013 on Alternative Care in Laos, in partnership with McGill University (Canada) and the National University of Laos. This report summarizes the findings of a study on parental and alternative childc
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A Guide to building healthy parent-child relationships: A positive rights-based approach
Save the Children works towards eliminating all forms of corporal or physical punishment and other humiliating or degrading punishment of children in all settings. For this reason, Save the Children Italy, Save the Children Lithuania, Save the Children Ro