Global Social Service Workforce Alliance

This report offers recommendations for strengthening child-sensitive reception, care and services for unaccompanied children in the United States. Drawing on UNICEF’s global experience, international guidance, and the insights of key stakeholders, the report intends to offer a constructive, solutions-oriented vision for addressing the challenges related to child-sensitive reception and care within the U.S. The report highlights the important features that make a reception and care system for unaccompanied migrant children child-sensitive: an organizational culture centered around child rights, dignity and care, as well as reception processes that incorporate child welfare principles and engage qualified child welfare professionals to screen and interview children, provide clear information, assess their needs, and take a leading role in decisions that affect them.

Download document: Building-Bridges-for-Every-Child.pdf

Author(s): UNICEF

Year of Publication: 2021

Workforce themes: Case management, Systems

Program themes: Alternative care, Child protection

Geographic location: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, United States of America

Source: Building Bridges for Every Child: Reception, Care and Services to Support Unaccompanied Children in the United States | Global Social Service Workforce Alliance