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Protecting Children in Humanitarian Settings
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 12 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Welcome to the Course
- Getting to Know Each Other
- How to Take This Course
- (Optional) Introduction to Humanitarian Child Protection
- Child Development, Adversity, and Resilience
- Child Development
- Childhood Adversity
- Resilience in Children
- Relating the Science to Child Protection
- Unlocking the Protective Potential of Social Environments
- Supporting Children's Agency
- Working with Children in Different Cultural Contexts
- Children's Agency and Participation
- Fostering Child Agency
- Do No Harm
- Enabling Families as Protective Environments
- Families in Different Cultural Contexts
- Impact of Humanitarian Crises on Families
- Interventions to Support Families During and After Crises
- ‘Do No Harm’ Issues
- Enabling Communities as Protective Environments
- Communities As Resources and Risks for Children
- Ways of Engaging with Communities
- How Community Approaches Can Support Child Protection in Education
- Enabling Protective Social Norms and Policies
- Social Norms
- Approaches to Social Norms Change
- Children's Policies
- Approaches to Changing Policy
- Enriching and Transforming Practice
- Bringing Together the Science of Childhood Adversity and Child Protection Practice
- Identifying Barriers to Transformation
- Identifying Opportunities for Transformation
Prerequisite
Instructors
Hanna-Tina Fischer
Instructor, Program on Forced Migration and Health in the Department of Population and Family Health
Columbia University
Mark Canavera
Co-Director, Care and Protection of Children (CPC) Learning Network and Associate of the Program on Forced Migration and Health
Columbia University
Michael G. Wessells
Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health
Columbia University
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Columbia University is a private university located in Morningside Heights, in the north-western part of the borough of Manhattan, in New York (United States). Its origins lie in King's College, founded in 1754 by King George II of Great Britain. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States and is part of the Ivy League group of eight of the country's oldest, most famous, most prestigious and most elitist universities.
Columbia is one of the most selective and prestigious universities in the world. The admission rate was 5.1% in 2019, comparable to Harvard and Stanford. Ranked first in the United States for research, it is sixth in the world (fourth in the United States) in the CUWR ranking of the world's top 1,000 universities and eighth in the Shanghai University Rankings.
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