At @UNICEFCanada & @CWLC_LBEC’s webinar on the new global framework for opening schools and other child/youth serving spaces. We are reminded that the young are the generation who will carry the impacts of the pandemic the longest. #childrights

« Lockdown has curtailed almost every aspect of childhood. » @UNICEFCanada & @CWLC_LBEC’s webinar on child/youth-serving spaces during COVID

I am deeply concerned about this! And I really think all levels of government should check their blindspots to not burden children and youth anymore than they are.

Schools, as child/serving-spaces, should think not only about disease prevention ( #2m and hand washing), but also about health promotion, including recovering from COVID trauma and losses. #childrights

Lisa Wolff, from @UNICEFCanada: outdoor classrooms are part of the solution.

Lisa Wolff, from @UNICEFCanada: Remote and in-class education is not all school is about. Play is part of return to school, too.

On cumulative inequality: that people who don’t recover from losses and trauma experienced during children, like pandemics or natural disasters, have lower outcomes later on, whether in education, employment or even life expectancy. #childrights #covid