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This Training Manual seeks to raise awareness of the content of the Prepare for Leaving Care: Practice Guidance, build knowledge and skills to support young people through the process of leaving care and help trainees to understand and develop some of the tools which are helpful in the leaving care process. It was produced as part of the …
This guide from Coram Voice in the UK provides guidance to youth leaving or aging out of the foster care system, including informing care-leavers of their rights. The guide is aimed at preparing youth to transition to successful independent living. The document offers a flowchart to help care leavers identify their eligibilities and rights and explains the services and programs available to them, including financial and housing services. It also includes terms and definitions ("jargon buster") and a list of resources and useful contacts.
Abstract
Due to the high instances of young people in care becoming homeless after leaving care, the study I undertook for my PhD in design research explored how an intervention could be co-designed to support young people and leaving care workers (LCWs) to share and elicit views about where a young person could live when they leave care. This article describes the methodology I worked through to re-design this interaction and why I think this approach resulted in positive outcomes for the people who tested the new interaction.
The Alternative Care in Emergencies Toolkit is designed to facilitate interagency planning and implementation of alternative care and related services for children separated from or unable to live with their families during and after an emergency.
No single type of care placement that will meet the needs of all children. Each emergency will have its own set of protection risks. Different societies will have their own unique norms for how children are looked after. Each family and community will have different levels of requirements and resources and, most importantly, each child will have…
A normally disruptive period in the lives of all young people is made even more disruptive for youth in the process of leaving care. All formal support networks are dismantled with termination of care: the result is added instability during a period of fast-paced changes. Youth who are at the age of majority without extended care and maintenance are symbolically and literally dumped out of the system. Many youth have fears and anxieties over their futures with a lack of life skills and independence training. Also lacking financial and emotional support, the road can be long and winding.…
"During the pandemic, video chats replaced in-person visits between parents and their children placed in foster care" says this article from the Marshall Project. "The effects could linger for years."
Since 2014, the Biennial Conference on Alternative Care for Children in Asia (BICON) has been a major conference focused on the rights of children and young people without parental care (CWPC). Previously hosted by Udayan Care, BICON events are conceived as a regional advocacy platform to bring stakeholders working on child and youth care together for sharing, learning and connecting. #BICON2021 will be an important event for stakeholders to work together to drive care reform in the region and to contribute to global conversations on this important topic.
Dates: 8 & 9 December…
UNICEF is seeking a consultant to provide technical support to the Timor-Leste Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion through the Child Protection Officers, for emergency preparedness and response in the COVID 19 pandemic for children living in institutional care, primarily related to case management and registration process.
WORK ASSIGNMENT
1. Conduct general mapping of residential care facilities
2. Revised, develop or adapt supportive materials and tools for registration and monitoring of children in residential and case…