Children Living Outside of Family Care
Optimal support for a child comes from a caring and protective family. The collaborative focuses on ensuring that conversations concerning children living outside of family care consider the effect on a child’s development and adult outcomes.
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Publications
Building Bridges for Every Child
February 1, 2021
This paper, co-authored by Gillian Huebner, executive director of the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, was published by UNICEF and illustrates how reception, care, and services for unaccompanied migrant children in the United States can be built around the best interests of each child.
Events
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Indigenous Communities, Child-Family Separation, and the Catholic Church: What Do Truth and Healing Require?
For centuries, Indigenous children were removed from their families and sent to boarding schools or placed in adoptive non-Indigenous families. Hundreds of thousands of American Indian, Alaska Native, Canadian First Nations, Native Hawaiian, and Aboriginal children in Australia were forced to attend…
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Blog Posts
Caring for Vulnerable Children
October 26, 2023
There is global agreement illustrated by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely adopted human rights treaty in the world, that optimal support for a child comes from a caring and protective family. In addition, Catholic social teaching, outlined in the Compendium…
Responses
The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Forcible Deportation of Ukrainian Children
Vladyslav Havrylov, Research fellow, Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues | October 26, 2023
The Roman Catholic Church and Residential Care of Children: A Brief Historical Overview
Philip Goldman, President, Maestral International | October 26, 2023
Slavery, Child-family Separation, and the Catholic Church in the United States
September 11, 2023
The origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States includes a dependency on slave labor and sales to sustain itself and build its institutions. In 1838, a group of the United States’ most prominent Catholic priests, the Society of Jesuits, sold 272 enslaved people to save Georgetown…
Responses
Bound and Severed: Family Ties and Slavery in U.S. Catholicism
Kelly L. Schmidt, Reparative Public Historian at Washington University in St. Louis. | October 26, 2023
The Children of the GU272
Adam Rothman, Professor of History at Georgetown University and Director of the Georgetown Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies | October 2, 2023
Videos
Indigenous Communities, Child-Family Separation, and the Catholic Church (Video)
November 9, 2023
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes
Comunidades indígenas, separación entre el niño y la familia, y la Iglesia católica (Video)
November 9, 2023
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes
Communautés indigènes, séparation enfant-famille et Église catholique (Video)
November 9, 2023
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes
Georgetown Units
Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies Georgetown Unit
The Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies is home to academic and research initiatives connected to Georgetown’s ongoing commitments in slavery, memory, and reconciliation. The center supports rigorous new scholarship and innovation in disseminating knowledge about the history of…