Program Overview

Program Overview

The Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice course is a 16-week program that focuses on protecting children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

Course Details

• Course Length: 16 weeks
• Time Commitment: 2-6 hours per week
• Featuring faculty from: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Certificate Price: $149

Learning Outcomes

• The origins of child protection in international human rights law
• How to analyze global child protection issues and the diversity of actors involved in child protection
• The impact of violence, exploitation, and abuse (VEA) on children’s emotional, social, and physical development and strategies for preventing and responding to these harms

Syllabus

Every Child's Right to Protection

• The Legal Foundation of Child Protection
• Defining and Measuring Child Protection

Violence Against Children

• Causes and Consequences of Violence
• Strategies for Preventing and Addressing Violence
• Examples of Preventing and Addressing Violence

Children and the Law

• Children in Conflict with the Law
• Children in Contact with the Law
• Migrant Children and the Law

A System's Approach to Child Protection

• Components of a Child Protection System
• Identifying Problems in Child Protection System
• Global and Local Action to Strengthen Child Protection Systems

Faculty

• Instructor: Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Ways to Take This Course

• Audit or Pursue a Verified Certificate: A Verified Certificate costs $149 and provides unlimited access to full course materials, activities, tests, and forums. Alternatively, learners can Audit the course for free and have access to select course material, activities, tests, and forums. Please note that this track does not offer a certificate for learners who earn a passing grade.