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 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic threat, the IFS General Assembly planned to take place in Sydney, Australia at the IFS Conference 2020 was held online on August 12, 2020. The IFS General Assembly was open to all IFS members and more information on...

The IFS Global newsletter is out! We have gathered information on IFS members worldwide. Please follow the link below for an insight into the IFS members activities during and after COVID-19 and more! IFS Global Newsletter 7/2020

In this "Get to know your board members" series, we have interviewed the IFS board member and Deputy Executive Director – Youth and Aging Services, Susan Matloff-Nieves of Goddard Riverside in New York, USA.  Where do you work and what is your...

Shared by Siobhan O'Flaherty, Development Assistant - Center For Family Life Center for Family Life provides comprehensive, neighbourhood-based social services in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. We partner with the community to provide access to resources,...

More than two weeks have passed since Australia’s last confirmed coronavirus death. Restrictions are easing each week, children are back at school, cafes and restaurants are serving customers again, businesses are reopening and people are gradually...

By Sunday Ofili Ibobor, Umuebu Neighborhood House (UNH), Umuebu, Delta State, Nigeria The first confirmed case of coronavirus (COVID 19) was reported on 27 February 2020.  Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to report a confirmed...

Hello Project Directors and program coordinators! Join us for a conversation about finding balance during the COVID-19 pandemic: Meet with other settlement house colleagues from around the world to share practices and strategies. This meeting will...

The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities is offering the OpenSesame learning catalog, Returning to the Workforce: Preparing for the New Normal, to all users for free via the Alliance Learning Community through June 14.  As states begin to...

  A social talk with an international perspective where actors from Europe, the United States and Australia share best practice on how we keep contact with our societies’ most vulnerable during the pandemic. The webinar will be organised by...

Dear sisters and brothers We are watching the news from the USA in the grip of growing anxiety. How is it possible that once again, the old wounds of structural racism and discrimination are open? And how is it possible that the police forces that...