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The story of Heartline’s transition from residential care to family care is told in this recently released Faith to Action case study.
The case study details their experience through three stages of transition—learning, preparation and planning, and full transition—with transparency.
It addresses common challenges for transitioning organizations, as well as the strategies Heartline took to overcome them.
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In light of recent global debates over the dangers of institutionalised orphan care, a new model of family care premised on the trope of family reunification has emerged among Haitian and US faith‐based actors as the best alternative for ensuring vulnerable children's well‐being. This article offers a critical cultural reading of narratives on family reunification in Haiti in social media and advocacy discourse, revealing how this approach privileges Northern assumptions about proper parenting and family life. Not only are these ideas a mismatch with realities in Haiti, they evoke…
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This publication is presented in three parts. Part 1 discusses how seeing Haitian children as part of a complex and beautiful social system can inform best practices in child care reform. Part 2 highlights eight organizations working towards family-based care and the preservation of families and communities. Part 3 provides inspiration for collective action and transformation.
Child development happens within a social and ecological system. In the first section, a Whole Haiti, we consider child protection from the individual (child), family, community…
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Although there is some literature in relation to grandmothers who care for their children full time, there is little that has been written specifically about grandmothers caring for children when the children’s parents are in prison. It was for this reason that this small pilot project was conducted to start to understand and compare the situation of grandmothers caring for children in a diverse range of countries when their parents are in prison. The aim was to begin to draw out the commonalities and differences and to understand what policymakers need to take into account when…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile. body rubs Seatle near me.
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This report is an analysis of the overall findings from the research project on Haitian child domestic workers. The research was initiated by UNICEF, the Haitian Ministère des Affaires Sociales et du Travail (MAST), the Institut du Bien-Etre Social et de Recherches (IBESR), ILO, IOM, the IRC and the Terre des Hommes Lausanne Foundation. Additional organisations joined during the course of research, and eventually a group of 28 different organisations supported the research and made up a Technical Committee.
Representations of child domestic work in Haiti seem to fall into…
Introducción
El presente documento ha sido elaborado en el marco del trabajo conjunto de la Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe del Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF) y la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH). Reconoce como antecedente el informe “Derecho del niño a la familia: Cuidado alternativo. Poniendo fin a la institucionalización en las Américas” de la CIDH. Dicho informe ha servido de apoyo en la elaboración del presente y contiene un exhaustivo desarrollo de los principales estándares del derecho internacional de los…
En América Latina y el Caribe sobre un universo de 240.000 niñas, niños y adolescentes institucionalizados, alrededor del 10 por ciento de ellos tiene entre 0 y 3 años. Este grupo etario es el más vulnerable a sufrir el impacto de la privación del cuidado familiar y los efectos nocivos en esta etapa crítica del desarrollo pueden llegar a prolongarse durante toda su vida.
Los avances identificados en nuestra región en materia de inversión en políticas públicas dirigidas a la primera infancia, no han tenido en cuenta las problemáticas de sectores minoritarios que requieren de una protección…
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BACKGROUND:
Governments have an ethical imperative to safeguard children in residential care institutions at all times, including in the aftermath of an emergency. Yet, a lack of accurate data about how the magnitude and characteristics of this population may change due to an emergency impedes leaders' ability to formulate responsive policies and services, mobilize resources and foster accountability. The purpose of this study was therefore to determine the feasibility of evaluating movement of children into residential care following an emergency.
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The pilot…
In order to increase its knowledge on the possible issue of de-institutionalisation in developing countries and how it could be addressed, the European Commission Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) commissioned SOS Children’s Villages International to conduct the present study. Its general objective was to “conduct a research on the possible issue of institutionalisation in six South and Central American, Asian and African countries in order to strengthen the knowledge of the European Commission on the nature, the extent and scope of…