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This learning brief was developed as part of the CTWWC 2021 annual report and shares learning from several contexts and is intended to share learning on how family strengthening, reunification, case management and workforce strengthening can be integrated in care reform.
Changing The Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is a global initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming national systems of care for children, strengthening families, family reunification and preventing child-family separation, which can have harmful, long-term…
Learning briefs are short resources that share more about how Changing the Way We Care undertakes a certain aspect of the care reform work and what some of the main lessons are. This learning brief was developed as part of the initiative's 2022 annual report and shares learning on family-based alternative care from Guatemala, Moldova, India and Kenya and links the reader to additional CTWWC resources on the topic.
Changing The Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is a global initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming national…
Este documento se basa en la experiencia de Cambiando la Forma en Que Cuidamos (o sus siglas en inglés, CTWWC) Guatemala en procesos de fortalecimiento familiar y comunitario en un área específica de intervención. Está dirigido a profesionales en trabajo social, psicología, pedagogía y otros que trabajen en la prevención de la separación familiar innecesaria y el fortalecimiento familiar directamente con niños, niñas, adolescentes y familias en situación de vulnerabilidad. Por ejemplo, pueden ser autoridades locales y comunitarias que sirvan de ejemplo de lo que se puede diseñar desde la…
Este estudio de caso destaca la transición de servicios de cuidado residencial a los basados en la familia y comunidad, realizado por las Hermanas de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Buen Pastor, en Tijuana B.C., México.
A lo largo de la lectura, encontraran una mirada honesta ante los altibajos que vienen con un proceso de cambio de cuidado residencial que venían realizando por más de 100 años, a servicios basados en la comunidad enfocados en el fortalecimiento familiar.
El documento incluye lecciones aprendidas, éxitos e información útil sobre como a través del mapeo de…
This case study highlights the transition of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd in Tijuana. It presents the highs and lows that come with a change process of moving from residential care to community-based services focused on family strengthening.
The document includes successes, lessons learned, and useful insights about community mapping, donor concerns, and how difficult changes can result in more children and families being served.
This case study provides useful information for those who are interested in or already engaged in a transition process,…
Bordering Through Care and Control: Policing and Sheltering Central American Migrant Youth in Mexico
Despite rising numbers of unaccompanied child migrants in the Americas, very limited research directly engages with youth as they journey north to seek protection in the United States. In this article, the authors examine young Central American migrant experiences of bordering, focusing on policing and shelter management. Part of a wider binational, interdisciplinary, and multi-scalar research project along the Mexico-U.S. border, which began on the heels of Programa Frontera Sur, they draw on interviews and a participatory workshop with migrant youth, and complementary…
El estudio de caso, plasmado en una página, está dirigido a posibles donantes, público interesado y actores vinculados a la reforma del cuidado infantil, que desean aprender sobre los procedimientos relacionados con el primer caso exitoso de reunificación familiar a cargo de la Iniciativa Cambiando la Forma en que CuidamosSM que opera en Guatemala y además sobre el importante papel de la gestión de casos. El presente estudio de caso fue escrito en julio del 2020, un año después de la reunificación.
Esta guía ha sido producida por Cambiando la forma en que CuidamosSM, una iniciativa…
This report follows the route of asylum seekers arriving in Tapachula. It draws on a March 2022 visit during which the researchers conducted field documentation and interviews with asylum seekers, government officials, UN agencies, and civil society organizations providing services to migrants. The report highlights abuses, arbitrary treatment, and steep obstacles faced by asylum seekers at each step of their process.
From June to November 2019, CTWWC caseworkers analyzed, assessed, and investigated the files of the children living in residential care in the Temporary Early Childhood Orphanage in Zacapa. They started working on several cases based on the methodology described in more detail in the Application of the Case Management Methodology Process developed in 202019 . They also conducted trainings on the case management methodology in Zacapa, Guatemala.
In January 2020, CTWWC psychosocial team identified five more cases of 17 children (8 girls and 7 boys from ages 3-16) through the privately-run…