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New Collaboration on Innovating Protection for Children on the Move Launches

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Georgetown Launches Collaborative on Critical and Emerging Global Children's Issues

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The university-wide Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues fosters cross-disciplinary research and dialogue on critical and emerging global children's issues, with a particular focus on children in adversity and pathways to resilience.

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Innovating Protection Forum

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May
4

2022

Innovating Protection for Migrant and Asylum-Seeking Children and Youth in U.S. Communities Event

The number of young people fleeing high levels of violence, crime, natural disasters, food insecurity, and poverty and crossing the U.S.-Mexico border reached a 20-year high in the U.S. government’s fiscal year 2021 (October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021). This included a record number of children…

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Apr
22

2022

Innovating Protection for Children Along the Migratory Route and at the U.S.-Mexico Border Event

Mar
30

2022

Innovating Protection for Children at Risk in the Americas Event

Feb
24

2022

Youth Matters: Engaging Young People in Research, Policy, and Practice Event

Jan
20

2022

Clergy Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church Event

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Helping Families Meet Basic Needs Enables Parents to Promote Children’s Healthy Growth, Development

Joan Lombardi, senior fellow at the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, collaborated on the RAPID-EC project, a national survey of early childhood family well-being designed to gather data about the experiences of families with young children during the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak. This report discusses the key findings from the first year of RAPID-EC survey data.

Moving from a Perpetrating Faith Community to a Healing Faith Community

Georgetown scholars Rev. Gerard J. McGlone, S.J., and Katherine Marshall participated in a panel on "Moving from a Perpetrating Faith Community to a Healing Faith Community" at the Faith and Child Safeguarding conference on November 11, 2021.

Handling Historical Allegations of Safeguarding Incidents

Rev. Gerard J. McGlone, S.J., a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, discussed "Handling Historical Allegations of Safeguarding Incidents" at the Faith and Child Safeguarding conference on November 10, 2021. Video of the conference is available online.

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