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From April to September 2022, CTWWC and PGN implemented a process to prevent unnecessary child-family separation and provide accompaniment using the case management methodology and reintegration criteria with 18 families to promote children’s permanence within their current family environment.
The first step was identifying children vulnerable to rights violation or at risk of unnecessary family separation. For these cases, the PNA/PGN had already determined the possibility to reinstate their rights through an administrative process and all of the families resided in the municipalities of…
Helping families and their kin develop care plans for orphaned and vulnerable children was the objective of the family group conferencing (FGC) training that took place in Guatemala City from July 10-12, 2012. This family preservation approach for developing strategies to prevent the institutionalization of children emphasizes the strengths of families and their capacity to solve their own problems and develop their own care plans.
The training was a collaborative initiative by the Social Welfare Secretariat (Secretaría de Bienestar Social-referred to by the Spanish acronym SBS),…