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The Transitioning to Family Care for Children Online Training provides an overview of the key concepts and steps that are important to a successful transition process. The training utilizes short videos of presentations and interviews with transition experts and practitioners, as well as downloadable activities, guidance, and resources.
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In this video, Dr. Kristen Cheney discusses how her work led her to study the growth of the Orphan Industrial Complex and its adverse effects on children, families, communities, and child protection systems. She explains how you can avoid being exploited by the OIC for orphan tourism and suggests ways to better protect and serve children abroad.
An estimated eight million children still live in institutions across the world. Deinstitutionalisation involves strengthening and developing services to prevent children being separated from families. It involves closing down institutions; including children in society and in their communities; and giving them their right to a family. This film from Lumos is about the people who know that there is an alternative to institutional care, and who are working hard to make it happen. These are their stories, in their own words.
The video highlights work to transition institutions in…
This video from Mtoto News features interviews with several experts in the field of children's care and protection who discuss the importance of deinstitutionalization, particularly in the Eastern and Southern Africa context, and efforts being made to reduce or end the institutionalization of children.
Abstract
Deinstitutionalisation of alternative care systems is a major challenge in many countries of Africa and Asia in particular, where care provision is essentially left in the hands of non-State actors and overwhelmingly takes the form of large residential facilities. Under those conditions, private providers have a virtual monopoly and are thus in a strong position to resist change. The bulk of the funding for these so-called ‘orphanages’ – where the great majority of children are not in fact orphans – usually comes from well-meaning charitable sources overseas. In recent years, ‘…
Introduction
This chapter explores the drivers behind the continued, and in some parts of the world, growing, institutionalization of children. It presents evidence related to the serious harm caused by institutionalization and the better alternatives that exist. In addition, it provides developing evidence of a range of economic drivers behind the proliferation of ‘orphanages’ globally. Finally, it summarizes an approach to transforming children’s services and reducing reliance on institutional care that has been tried and tested in many countries. It is hoped this chapter will assist…
This session of the World Travel Market in London focused on orphanage tourism and featured speakers from the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative and other partners, including Save the Children, Friends International, Lumos, and People and Places. The video highlights the detrimental impacts of institutionalization on children and their development and the ways in which orphanage tourism perpetuates this system.
In this video from Time for Global Action: Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, Stephen Ucembe shares his experience of living in an orphanage and how institutionalization was detrimental to his development and wellbeing. The video includes an interview with Dr. Delia Pop of Hope and Homes for Children, explaining how institutions are harmful to children's development, the reasons that children are placed into orphanages (including poverty and little access to resources like education and medical care), and why community-based and family-based care is preferable. It also…
The Health Information and Standards Directorate in Ireland's HIQA has launched a public consultation on Draft National Standards for Children’s Residential Centres. This consultation aims to gather the views of children living in residential care, their families and people involved in caring for children in residential care on the draft national standards. This feedback will be considered and will inform the development of the final National Standards.
The public consultation will run until 5pm on Thursday 02 November 2017.
Purpose and scope of the…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Institutional care is harmful to children.
Decades of research prove that growing up in institutions has detrimental psychological, emotional and physical implications including attachment disorders, cognitive and developmental delays, and a lack of social and life skills leading to multiple disadvantages during adulthood.
A catalogue of child rights violations has been documented within, and as a result of, institutional care. A 2006 UN study found that children in institutions are particularly at risk of violence compared to children in other…