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According to Jamaica’s Child Care and Protection Act of 2004, the family is the preferred environment for the care and upbringing of children. However, at the end of December 2007, there were 2,442 children in institutional care in Jamaica, over double the amount that were in foster care. In an effort to examine the system of care, the Office of the Children’s Advocate undertook research into the Foster Care Programme in Jamaica. The study, which was carried out by the UWI’s Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, aimed to determine the effectiveness and the…
The assessment reviews the situation of children outside parental care in ten countries in the Caribbean (as a sample of CARICOM member states). The central finding of this assessment is that efforts in the Caribbean to respond to children without parental care have been insufficient. This is attributed to a serious absence of strategies designed to support families to keep children at home, to prevent abuse and separation, to provide reintegration and long term rehabilitation services, and to ensure follow up and monitoring of children placed in temporary care.…
Arc-en-Ciel consists of three programmes:
- A residential care facility (shelter) for children infected or affected by HIV/AIDS;
- A Community Outreach Programme to provide training and home-based-care to families affected by HIV/AIDS; and
- A Community Mobilization Programme to share information with, and tap into the resources of, the broader community.
- Caring for children outside of their extended families – in…