Hopeful refugee father holds his young daughter (Serbian - Croatina border).

Raising hope for vulnerable children & families

Raising hope for vulnerable children & families

Hopeful refugee father holds his young daughter (Serbian - Croatina border).
Hopeful refugee father holds his young daughter (Serbian - Croatina border). © Radek Procyk | Dreamstime Images

Introduction

in this section, we present key issues and challenges facing young children and families in conflict and post conflict affected settings, and strategies to help meet their needs.

Narrating and sharing traumatic experiences in safe, supportive settings helps children and adults organize fragmented sensory and emotional memories. Psychosocial interventions contribute to peacebuilding in violence-affected children through symptom focused efforts to alleviate psychosocial distress, a resilience enhancing approach that focuses on the importance of positive and compensatory experiences, and lastly, by integrating mental health and peace promotion as an integral part in group and individual treatments. 

Explore this work area by scrolling through each of the sections and subsections below. 

Topics & initiatives

ECPC Call-to-Action for Justice, Peace, and the Protection of All Children Affected by the War in Israel and Palestine

The ECPC calls for timely and decisive global action and support, to save lives and prevent this tragedy from becoming a long-term crisis for affected children in Israel and Palestine.
14 February 2023, Kirikhan, Türkiye: A woman carries her baby through a makeshift tent camp. (Boris Roessler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

ECPC Global Call for Urgent Action and Support to Protect Children and Families Affected by the Recent Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria

The ECPC calls for timely and decisive global action and support, innovatively designed for sustainable solutions to prevent this tragedy from becoming a long-term crisis for affected children in Türkiye and Syria. 

The state of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s most vulnerable children

Top experts advance the ECPC Global Call to Action in response to the "state of the world’s most vulnerable children during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond" at the G20 Civil Society (C20) Summit — C20 Saudi Arabia 2020.
A girl stands at the window of her apartment overlooking the destroyed silo on at Beirut's port, on August 11, 2020, following a huge chemical explosion that devastated large parts of the Lebanese capital. Photo: ANWAR AMRO/AFP, Getty Images

ECPC statement of solidarity with the families and children of Beirut in the aftermath of the tragic blast

As the international community responds to this calamity in Lebanon, the ECPC underscores the importance of early childhood development in building back and recovery.
Masked mother holding newborn. © Used with permission from UNICEF/UNI325619/Frank Dejongh

ECPC Global Call to Action in response to COVID-19 for children in fragile and conflict affected settings: The promise of early childhood development

  • Join us in this global call to action, to ensure young children are not forgotten amidst this pandemic and to invest in their – and our shared – futures.
  • ECPC COVID-19 resource repository

United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children (SRSGVAC)

The SRSGVAC is an independent global advocate in favor of the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children, mobilizing action and political support to achieve progress the world over. 
Happy and hopeful children from Swaziland, Africa.

Integrating early childhood & violence prevention

  • Breaking the silence of childhood violence
  • Parenting in times of war
Refugee parents embrace their baby boy after upon arrival at Lesvos, Greece, after fleeing from their home country.

Child refugees & migrants

  • 'Children on the Move'

  • The refugee crisis & child rights
Asian boy at high risk of being bullied, trafficked and abused signals "Stop" with his hand.

Child trafficking & exploitation

  • The Economist IntelligenceUnit, "Out of the Shadows" 
  • Telefono Azzurro - Italy

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