Starting Monday (May 1) Ananda Alerts will be delivered to Facebook users in Jamaica. This is under a partnership between the Ananda Alert Secretariat in the Office of the Children’s...

Children with autism and other developmental disabilities will show off their talents in the performing arts at an Autism Awareness Month concert at Emancipation Park, New Kingston on May 6....

Chair of the National Child Month Committee (NCMC), Dr. Pauline Mullings, is appealing to Jamaicans to support the work of the Committee. Addressing a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on April 20,...

Some $50 million has been spent by the Child Development Agency (CDA) to refurbish the Summerfield Child Facility in Clarendon, which houses 31 teenage girls. Speaking at the official reopening...

Approximately 150 young people are benefiting from training in 3D animation, which will prepare them to take up lucrative jobs within the global industry. The 10-month ‘Creative Industries Education and...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is forging international partnerships to address child abuse across the island. Speaking at the launch of Child Month, which is observed annually in...

The Child Development Agency (CDA) today (April 7) received a Mobile Mental Health Unit, ‘Smile Mobile’, from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It has been provided under...

Juvenile wards of the State at all correctional facilities will now benefit under the second phase of the programme dubbed ‘A New Path’. The programme, which initially targeted wards at...