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This chapter appears in Child Maltreatment in Residential Care: History, Research, and Current Practice, a volume of research examining the institutionalization of children, child abuse and neglect in residential care, and interventions preventing and responding to violence against children living in out-of-home care settings around the world.
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Plenary discussions and presentations focused on the following themes: Role of Communities in Family Based Care; Age and Gender perspectives in Family Based Care; Policy and Legislative Frameworks providing for Family Based Care; Different Forms of Interventions, Practices and Experiences in Family Based Care; Institutional Care to Family Based Care; and Standards and the Role of Monitoring in Family Based Care.
Following a participatory process with delegates and the organizing committee, the Conference Declarations and Recommendations set forth collective priorities and commitments for: improving knowledge, skills, and capacity for supporting family based care; enhancing the legislative and policy environment for children in need of care; and strengthening coordination, participation and partnerships across the continent to promote better care and reduce the use of institutions.
Many North American Christians feel compelled to respond to the care and protection needs of children deeply affected by the global AIDS pandemic. This paper provides clear and evidence-based insights into how the Christian community can best direct their efforts.
Institutional care settings (orphanages) are a common response to caring for orphans and at-risk children and youth, but a growing body of global research shows that institutional care presents great social and psychological risks for young children. Among these risks is the reduced ability to form lasting attachments, community…
This brief report addresses the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on children and families in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region that is home to over 80% of the 15 million children under the age of 18 who have been orphaned by the pandemic worldwide. The health, education, safety, and survival of increasing numbers of children are particularly at risk in African countries that are heavily affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty and disease. The most promising solutions to this mounting crisis look beyond orphanages and institutional care to more sustainable, cost-effective, and developmentally appropriate…
WHAT: Save the Children’s research and analysis of residential care services and the need for alternative non-institutional approaches for children separated from their families. This book examines policy and practices from work in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern and Central Europe.
WHO: Policy makers and social and community workers involved in institutional and community based care of children
WHERE: Global relevance
WHY: This book gives an in-depth…