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This video summary accompanies the Readjusting to Parenthood: Peer Support Groups for Grandparents Assuming Care for Orphaned Children (Upendo Village, Kenya) practitioner learning video which is part of the Kenya Practitioner…
There is a growing global consensus that isolated efforts to improve individual institutions will not solve the problems of children in residential care, or meet their best interests. Family-based care alternatives, namely kinship care and foster care, therefore need to be actively promoted and strengthened in Ghana so that children are only ever in residential care as a temporary last resort.
This document is aimed at complementing the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for…
As a part of national care reform efforts, the Kenyan Government enacted new laws and policies aimed at reducing the country’s overreliance on institutional care for children. Whilst enacting new laws and policies of this nature is a critical component of care reforms, there can be huge challenges with implementation and compliance, particularly if there is an inadequate process of policy socialization and stakeholder engagement. This is heightened in countries where a significant proportion of institutions are privately run and funded and where the enforcement of regulation has been…
Comprised of videos and accompanying discussion guides, this video series features the learning from practitioners working across a range of care-related programs and practices in Kenya.
Videos in the series:
The Better Care Network, ACC International Relief and Changing the Way We Care invited practitioners, advocates and organisations who promote and support residential care service transitions to this launch webinar of the Transitioning Models of Care Assessment Tool.
In the webinar, developers Rebecca Nhep and Hannah Won introduced the tool and spoke to its origins, purpose, use, structure, key themes and the unique scoring system…
All children should be cared for in a family environment by their parents, relatives or other loving adults. But there are growing numbers of children who do not enjoy this most basic right and suffer from neglect and extreme vulnerability.
Children’s lives become precarious when they lose a parent because of illness, accident or conflict. The emotional, educational, spiritual and physical needs of children who live without parental care are often neglected and they may resort to dangerous activities to survive.
This handbook describes some innovative examples of how many faith-based…
This paper, which was presented at a workshop organized by the Network for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children, discusses the experience of Jerusalem Association Children’s Homes (JACH) on de-institutionalization. This paper also discusses the process of reunification and reintegration through various strategies and activities designed and implemented by JACH.
Having accumulated experience and expertise, JACH has gradually decreased the number of children in the institutions and has made a strategic shift to community-based childcare projects. JACH has initiated such projects in…