Category: Voice & participation

Below, is an article by Equity for Children’s summer intern, Bryce Williams. Bryce is a 16-year-old high-school boy from the Bronx, NY. During his 6-week internship with us, he learned about the multiple aspects of poverty and how we measure them. He read material about the differences between dollar-a-day poverty thresholds vs. a holistic approach […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A panel of renowned experts including Equity for Children’s Executive Director, Alberto Minujin, gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil to discuss the challenges of a holistic approach to family therapy.   The X Jornada Paulista on Family Therapy opened with a panel composed by Alberto Minujin, Expert on Child Poverty and Inequality, Lia Baptista Carvalho, […]
      Equity For Children wishes you a Happy Earth Day!   This observance day began on April 22nd, 1970, when 20 million Americans protested the negative effects of industrial development as global ecological awareness rose and the impacts of pollutants became more visible to the general public. The event is credited with spurring […]
About the Event Equity for Children, in partnership with ATD 4th World, will host an event to launch the release of the results of the Multi-dimensional Aspects of Poverty (MAP) project. MAP is an international research project that looks at multidimensional poverty from the perspective of those who experience it every day. With people in […]
Harvard Professor Amartya Sen pioneered a philosophic model that measures societal wellbeing, called The Capability Approach. The Capability Approach looks at the substantial freedom of the individual, meaning: enjoying the actual freedom to choose a standard of living rather than another without affecting negatively the freedom of generations to come. This differs significantly from other […]
About a hundred child advocates, field experts, scholars, and graduate students met at The New School on October 11th for a profound and relevant discussion about inequalities affecting children and adolescents living in poverty. The conversation was situated within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and demonstrated the paramount importance of placing children first […]
This brief proposes that:   Services to children and their families need to take a holistic view of the child’s relationships with family, extended family, neighbors and government agencies Improved communication between child advocates, families and government agencies is necessary. The current sectors serving lower-income communities operate in a disconnected and complex manner, creating conditions […]
In this article, recently published in Children, Youth and Environments Volume 28, Issue 1, Equity for Children Senior Advisor, Samantha Cocco-Klein and former Associate Director, Beatrice Mauger explore two initiatives, in the U.S. and the Pacific Islands, in which children have held leadership roles on climate change. The authors examine 1) the motivation behind each initiative, and 2) […]

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