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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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The Returning to Original Vision case story demonstrates reunification of children with disabilities as a critical step in transition. It also highlights the challenges of maintaining organizational vision within a process of transforming services. This case story is meant to illustrate transition, the actors involved, the challenges and the success factors; recognizing that each transition is an individual process with different starting points, different dynamics and different evolutions.
This case story complements the…
Introduction
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…
The Finding the Way Home documentary highlights the painful realities of the eight million children living in orphanages and other institutions around the world. The film draws on intimate access to families from Brazil, Bulgaria, Haiti, Nepal, India and Moldova to tell six stories of children who have found their way into the care of loving families after spending periods of their lives in an institution. The documentary was made with the support of ACER (Brazil), Catalysts for Social Action (CSA, India), Next Generation Nepal, Lumos and others who helped identify and support some…
Este informe de RELAF resume las presentaciones y discusiones del Seminario Internacional 2019 de RELAF. Para lograr esta presentación, las ponencias fueron agrupadas por ejes, y de ellas se seleccionaron las ideas principales, avances, desafíos y datos de interés. Así, cada eje constituye un capítulo, donde además se incluyen links a cada presentación de la temática a la que se hace referencia.
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This report from RELAF summarizes the presentations and discussions from RELAF's 2019 International Seminar, "For the right to family and community life. Putting an end to the confinement of children deprived of parental care." In order to put this document together, all presentations have been grouped by theme, with their main ideas, breakthroughs, challenges and data reproduced here. This way, each theme represents a different chapter, and each chapter includes hyperlinks to every presentation mentioned. This document is intended for those who want to better understand the work and…
Both scripture and science affirm: children grow best in healthy families. For vulnerable children and at-risk families, a wide range of family support and care options together contribute to a full “continuum of care” that meets the unique needs of each child and maximizes opportunities for children to grow up in nurturing families. The Christian Alliance for Orphans has offered this challenge grant opportunity to spark innovation as child-serving organizations create or expand effective family care solutions for children. A total of $50,000 was awarded in grants of $5,000 to $10,000 to…
This chapter from Residential Child and Youth Care in a Developing World: Global Perspectives, First Edition discusses how residential care has evolved and how it currently exists in the English-Speaking Caribbean. The writer of this chapter Letnie F. Rock notes that due to the volatile historic changes in the Caribbean, residential care for children in the Caribbean has developed sporadically, particularly as compared to Western countries. The history of residential care dates to the slavery-era. From that time, outside countries often attempted…
This Guide, written in Spanish, features a compilation of several social protection programs, services and public policies that resulted in the prevention of family breakdown and in the support of families and communities in caring and protecting their children. It also describes different experiences of the implementation of foster care programs, and the description of processes of de-institutionalization and system reform. All these examples are taken from the Latin American region, Italy and Romania.
No one wants children to suffer the harshness of life in poverty. This can drive some parents to entrust their children to an orphanage or to work in domestic service. It can lead some social workers to remove children from a home because their family is poor. There are times when these are the best options available: the children will be better fed and the parents may have the time to overcome a crisis and build a more stable home. Outcomes are far worse when children leave of their own accord and end up on their own in the streets. But even in the best of…