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COVID-19
A New Era of Community-Based Social Work – Lessons Learned from Impossible Odds
Guest Blog Post Ian Forber-Pratt, grantee coach for CAFO's Rapid Return Grant Project. A little-known consequence of the pandemic has been government-mandated "rapid return” of children. Children in many residential...
The Sobering Data on COVID-19’s Impact on Vulnerable Children Worldwide
This month's edition of LIGHT magazine carries an array of articles on human dignity, including an article I wrote, "Children of COVID-19." It highlights the measurable impacts of the pandemic upon vulnerable children in...
New Study Estimates Number of Children Orphaned by COVID-19 in U.S.
The term “orphan” is rarely used in relation to children in the US today. But last week, the journal Pediatrics released a pre-publication paper estimating the number of children orphaned by...
COVID’s Impact on Children: More than One Million Orphaned
Several new reports highlight what those laboring in the field of child welfare have experienced since the beginning of the pandemic: although COVID-19 has a very limited direct impact upon...
How Has COVID-19 Impacted the Most Vulnerable Children in America?
Since early in the COVID-19 pandemic, child advocates have warned that the isolation, economic impact, and other consequences of lockdowns could hit vulnerable children especially hard. Studies on what has...
One last unexpected for 2020… And a look ahead to 2021
Unexpecteds defined 2020, from masks to toilet paper runs, canceled church to at-home school. Many of these unexpecteds carried loss, some of it beyond words. And yet, as always is...