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This webinar was hosted by the Evidence for Impact Working Group of the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative on March 30, 2023, and examined the Early Institutionalization Intervention Impact Project in Brazil.
The Early Institutionalization Intervention Impact Project's (EI-3) main goal is to document and compare the impacts that enhanced institutional care and enhanced foster care have on development during early childhood.
The EI-3 research project builds upon the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP). Conducted in…
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…
Abstract
Shelter is a last resort in cases of suspected or threatened violation of rights in the Statute of the Child and Adolescent. The literature suggests that quality of care offered to children is one of the factors necessary to ensure the protective nature of the institutional care. This study aimed to investigate the profile and care practices of educators in the state of Pará, comparing two contexts, the metropolitan region of Belém (RMB) and the interior region of the state (IE). Data were collected by semi-structured interviews with 110 educators from 11…
In advance of the 21st Pan American Child and Adolescent Congress, the United Nations General Assembly, the Government of Brazil, together with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Global Movement for Children, and the NGO Group on Children without Parental Care based in New York, convened an international consultation on the elimination of violence against children in alternative care. Experts in government and civil society gathered together to…
A study conducted by the IPEA (Research institute of Applied Economy) in partnership with the National Council of the Rights of the Child and Adolescent (CONANDA), in 2004, brings together the results of a national inquiry into homes for children and teenagers of the network SAC (Services of Continued Action). The report is part of the national field of action and comprises of 589 institutions that are attended by 19,370 children and adolescents. It is estimated that the total corresponds to approximately 40% of the number of institutionalised children and adolescents in the country, which…
This study was carried out in order to investigate the institutions in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro that are attended by children and adolescents under age 12. The data was collected during the period from March to June 2003. The scope of inquiry included 69 homes that care for children and adolescents from 0 to 11 years of age. In the homes studied, there proved to be a total of 1,983 children and adolescents. The study investigated reasons for being taken into care, length of care, condition of the family relationship (for children in care), religious…
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This webinar hosted by the Evidence for Impact Working Group of the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative will examine the Early Institutionalization Intervention Impact Project in Brazil.
The Early Institutionalization Intervention Impact Project's (EI-3) main goal is to document and compare the impacts that enhanced institutional care and enhanced foster care have on development during early childhood. The EI-3 research project builds upon the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP). Conducted in Romania beginning in the year 2000, the BEIP is…
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…