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This preliminary report analyzes the practice of foster care in Argentina. The material will be useful for the development of foster care services in the Latin American region, due to the fact that the situation of foster care in Argentina can be seen as a model of the current regional context. This report adds to other previous publications issued by RELAF, such as “Latin American Report: Situation of children without parental care or at risk of losing it. Contexts, causes and responses” and “Document August…
The illegal removal of children from biological family life during conflict has a longstanding history. This research paper provides a brief overview of the Vietnam Babylift and of a more recent child abduction attempt in Chad. Then, turning to the history of child abduction and adoption history in Latin America, the paper presents the conflicts of El Salvador and Argentina and discusses ‘living disappeared’ children – those who disappear into adoption networks during war. The research explores the post-conflict social realities in both nations. The role of the social worker and specific…
The Asociación de Familias de Acogida de Chile (AFAC, www.somosafac.cl) invites you to their third online international seminar: Fomentando una Cultura de Acogimiento.
The seminar will be held via zoom this Friday 23 June from 9.00am (Chilean time, 14.00pm BST).
This article from the Global Press Journal explains a new law in Argentina, expected to be implemented in 2018, which would offer support to young people aging out of the care system. According to the article, "Young people who age out of the state system will have the option to enroll in a program in which they would receive a monthly income equivalent to 80 percent of the minimum wage – 7,600 Argentine pesos ($516) – and would be matched with a mentor. The program would last until a person turns 21, with a possible extension to the age of 25 if the person is studying or otherwise preparing…
Evidence shows that in most countries in Latin America, the quality of alternative care is poor. At the same time, quality is determinant in the wellbeing of children and adolescents living in institutional care and in the support they receive when leaving care.
This webinar builds up on the results of the research More Autonomy, More Rights (2020) Coordinated by CSO Doncel, in the representation of the Latin American Network of Care Leavers and supported by UNICEF LACRO and Hope and Homes for Children. The study aimed to build knowledge on the actions in support of the social…
FUNDASAMIN abre una convocatoria para capacitar a aspirantes a Operador de Hogares convivenciales en promoción y prevención en salud.
Los Hogares convivenciales son instituciones de restitución de derechos donde se alojan niños, niñas y adolescentes sin cuidado parental o en situación de vulnerabilidad, en forma transitoria hasta que los organismos competentes determinen la posibilidad de regreso a su familia de origen o a una familia alternativa.
En el ámbito de los Hogares convivenciales quienes…
Ieladeinu is the program of the Jewish Community Argentina that aims to promote, protect, return and restore the rights of children and teenagers, and repair the trauma they carry as a product of abusive situations within their families.
En el año 2005, en la I RAADH se aprobó la Iniciativa Niñ@Sur cuya meta general es articular los esfuerzos nacionales y promover acuerdos regionales orientados al cumplimiento de los instrumentos internacionales de derechos humanos universales y regionales como piso mínimo de derechos humanos de niños, niñas y adolescentes. En este sentido, uno de los ejes planteados es el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de protección de derechos humanos de niños, niñas y adolescentes.
Doncel works to improve the lives of children and youth who live or lived in alternative care; with a focus on improving life opportunities of young people leaving the protection system. We want every boy, girl and adolescent in the country under the care of the State to live their lives In full exercise of their rights.
Doncel's objectives are: Guarantee children’s rights in the framework of the UNCRC; Develop models to work with children and young people that contribute to their development to their full potential; Promote practices that contribute to deinstitutionalisation processes of…