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The 2010s have witnessed increasing political and public concern over child and family-related issues in Russia, with child welfare and family policy being elevated to the top of the state’s political agenda. The Russian conservative government has prioritised the protection of traditional family values and family as the mainstay of Russian society and thereupon introduced major policy and welfare reform programmes, one of which works towards deinstitutionalising the country’s entire child welfare system. Building upon the idea of every child’s right to a family, this…
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This article examines how Russian SOS Villages are undergoing foster reform, which prescribes a transition from institutional care for children deprived of parental care to family care model. The article analyses the problems and transformations experienced by SOS Villages, outlining the aims, instruments, and priorities of the reform. Empirically, the article is based on qualitative investigation of two Russian SOS Villages. Officially, SOS villages have the status of non-state children’s homes. However, they were originally conceptualised as a means to implement family care by…
EveryChild is an international development charity working in 17 countries with a strategic focus on children without parental care. This document outlines EveryChild’s approach to the growing problem of children without parental care by defining key concepts, analysing the nature and extent of the problem, exploring factors which place children at risk of losing parental care, and examining the impact of a loss of parental care on children’s rights. It also provides principles for good practice in trying to reduce the number of children without parental…
The child welfare programs, funded by USAID in Russia, were designed to pilot, disseminate, and help institutionalize modern child welfare services, particularly, child abandonment prevention and professional support of vulnerable children, child welfare institutions, and substitute families. This report reviews program results and sets out recommendations for future program design. The programs that were evaluated have contributed to child welfare reforms by: designing and piloting a continuum of services that prevent child abandonment, neglect and abuse, and support children without…
The February IREX/Assistance to Russian Orphans (ARO) Program Newsletter provides information on the many recent activities and seminars. ARO (Assistance to Russian Orphans) expert consultants led seminars and trainings on child psychology, family intervention, emergency psychological assistance to children by telephone, support services for foster families, and early intervention for children between the ages of 0-4 for specialists in Barnaul, Komsomol'sk-na-Amure, Novosibirsk, and Tambov in February.
The ARO Team provided valuable administrative training to ARO partner…