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Including Children in the Urban Agenda

This publication, Addressing Urban Inequities and Childhood: Advancing the Agenda for Children and Cities, is based upon conversations and discussions held at Equity for Children’s April 2016 Urban Inequities and Children Conference at The New School in New York City, where nearly 100 international researchers, government representatives, foundations, advocates and practitioners deliberated about underlying local […]

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Working with the families of the poor: Improving Services for Children and their Caretakers

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 […]

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Working with the Families of the Poor | July 2018

Dear Friends, On April 12, 2018, more than 100 practitioners from the fields of child advocacy, social policy, and government attended the event, Working with Families of the Poor: Taking Forward the Legacy of Salvador Minuchin, hosted by Equity for Children at The New School. Joining me as guest speakers were Howard Steele, Professor of […]

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Including Children and Adolescents in Progress for the SDGs

Including Children and Adolescents in Progress for the SDGs: Understanding and Addressing Exclusion Among Poor Children, will be held on October 11-12, 2018 at The New School in New York. Supported by UNICEF, UNDP, Save the Children, the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty and ChildFund Alliance. Poverty and social exclusion affect children and adolescents […]

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Remembering Salvador Minuchin

By Ema Genijovich Getting to know Salvador Minuchin, architect of the Structural Family Therapy model, opened up my mind and transformed my understanding of what we as therapists can aspire to in our work on human relationships. In the early 1980s, Salvador came to Mexico City, where I had been living for a number of […]

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Climate Change, Children and Intergenerational Equity

On March 29, 2018, Equity for Children hosted a talk at The New School about intergenerational equity and environmental justice in partnership with the sustainability-focused student organization, Oikos NYC, and with support from the New School’s Environmental Studies Program. The objective was to engage with young people to discuss and share what youths are doing and […]

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Identifying Solutions and Taking Action to Tackle Poverty and Inequality in Africa

Our Executive Director, Alberto Minujin, presented a research paper at the conference “Putting Children First: Identifying Solutions and Taking Actions to tackle Poverty and Inequality in Africa” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from October 23 to 25, 2017. This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and […]

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Examining the Growing Up NYC Policy Framework | December 2016

Dear Friend, Equity for Children continues its focus on improving the wellbeing of the most disadvantaged children, particularly those living in cities, as 2016 draws to a close. In New York, we co-sponsored an event on November 22, Growing Up NYC: Policy Framework, with the Center for New York City Affairs. The framework comprehensively addresses children’s development from […]

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New Streamlined Website Launch | March 2017

Dear Friend, I am excited to announce the launch of Equity for Children’s new, streamlined website, providing improved access to our articles, tools and programs! Visit www.equityforchildren.org to read about our most recent work and explore our resources. For new followers, don’t forget to check out what we do, our programs and our publications. For Spanish and Portuguese speakers, I […]

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Release of “Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America: Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies”

On March 8, 2017, Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America: Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies, edited by Alberto Minujin, Monica Gonzalez Contro and Raul Mercer was published by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), Columbia University Press and Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart. This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to […]

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Professor Alberto Minujin Receives Award in Argentina

July 29th, 2016 marked the 50th anniversary of what came to be known as “The Night of the Long Batons”. A month after the military coup that removed then president Arturo Illia, repressive forces seized the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and declared the end of its autonomy. That night, police forces, violently dislodged the […]

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“Bringing It All Home”, A Report from the Center for New York City Affairs

Family child care is the most common child care arrangement for young children from low-income families, yet national studies have found the quality of home-based care to be wanting. In 2012, New York City launched one of the country’s largest experiments in raising the quality of subsidized family child care. More than three years since […]

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