Date: 22 October 2024

Time: 9-10:30 AM  U.S. ET  |  1-2:30 PM UTC

During Social Service Workforce Week, the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance and the Better Care Network (BCN) co-hosted a webinar to explore progress, successes and challenges in global efforts to strengthen the social service workforce for family care and care system reform.  

During the webinar, we unveiled findings and recommendations from the Alliance’s 2024 State of the Social Service Workforce Report: The Social Service Workforce in Family Care for Children. We also highlighted a new thematic brief by the global Task Force on the Social Service Workforce in Care Reform under the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative, developed to help policymakers understand the essential role of the social service workforce in enabling safe and stable family care for children. Then, through a moderated panel discussion, we heard insights on efforts to strengthen the social service workforce for family care in Moldova, India, Uganda, Guatemala and Jordan.

Speakers:

• Jamie Gow, Children in Adversity Team Lead, USAID
• Beth Bradford, Senior Associate, Maestral International
• Mariam El-Qasem, Child Protection Officer, UNICEF Jordan
• Mr. Pritikanta Panda, State Programme Manager, Odisha State Child Protection Society, India
• Anastasia Oceretnii, Associate Professor, State University of Moldova
• María José Ortiz, Children Protection Subsecretary, Secretariat of Social Welfare Guatemala
• Sumaeya Nassuna, Social Worker, Child’s i Foundation and Uganda Care Leavers Association, Uganda