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Child maltreatment is a serious and prevalent problem in the United States. Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) were established in 1985 to better respond to cases of child maltreatment and address problems associated with an uncoordinated community-wide response to child maltreatment. CACs are community-based, multidisciplinary organizations that seek to improve the response and prosecution of childContinue reading “Elmquist et al. (2015) A review of Children’s Advocacy Centers’ (CACs) response to cases of child maltreatment in the United States”

This resource, written expressly for Child Advocacy Center administrators, is designed to give administrators who have varying amounts of evaluation experience the knowledge they will need to conduct either one-time or ongoing evaluations.This manual can also be used by those who contract with an external evaluator;it will be helpful in educating external evaluators about theContinue reading “National Institute of Justice (2004) A Resource for Evaluating Child Advocacy Centers”

Child-friendly spaces are used by humanitarian agencies as a means to promote protection and psychosocial wellbeing for children in emergency settings. World Vision International together with Columbia University conducted a series of studies to investigate the effectiveness of CFS in various humanitarian contexts in order to document evidence of the positive effects they have inContinue reading “World Vision et al. (2016) Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Friendly Spaces in IDP Camps in Eastern DRC: Goma Field Study Summary Report”

This case study describes how a Ugandan NGO, the Transcultural Psychoscoial Organisation Uganda (TPO Uganda), involved the community in creating child-friendly spaces to protect children. Back to Resources

This resource provides practical guidance to child protection practitioners for monitoring and evaluating child-friendly spaces. It presents tools for planning and implementing, as well as the monitoring and evaluation of CFS. For each tool, the objectives are explained, along with insights and lessons on the usefulness of the tool based on the learning and experiencesContinue reading “World Vision et al. (2016) Evaluation of Child Friendly Spaces: Tools and Guidance for Monitoring and Evaluating CFS”

This structured review of published and “grey” literature identified ten studies on the positive outcomes of CFS, particularly with respect to psychosocial well-being. Analysis of these studies suggests that greater commitment to documentation and measurement of outcomes and impacts is required; more standardized and rigorous measurement of processes, outputs, outcomes and impacts is necessary; evaluationContinue reading “World Vision (2012) Child Friendly Spaces: A Structured Review of the Current Evidence-Base”

World Vision and Columbia University, working with Save the Children, UNICEF and others, engaged in a three-year collaborative project to document the outcomes and impacts of CFS and develop capacity for rigorous evaluation. This report presents a summary of those findings. Back to Resources

Humanitarian crises present major threats to the well-being of children. Humanitarian response efforts frequently address these threats through psychosocial programming, such as child-friendly spaces. This analysis assesses the impact of child-friendly spaces after humanitarian emergencies. Back to Resources