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Amy and Ano are twins, but just after they were born they were taken from their mother and sold to separate families.
They found out about each other by chance and as they delved into their past, they realised thousands of babies in Georgia were stolen from hospitals and sold for adoption, some as recently as 2005. Now they want answers.
The ACE Zambia team has built a strong proof of concept for family-based care and restored thousands of children to family since 1998. In this video Simon Kanyembo, Director of Social Services at ACE Zambia, addresses the following questions:
- Why child welfare organizations should prefer family-based care to institutional care
- Response to children who are abandoned or unable to be reintegrated
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This webinar was conducted in English but the video recording is available with French and Spanish captions. View the Spanish and French subtitles by clicking on the 'Settings' icon at the bottom right of the video player.
While ensuring suitable care for children deprived of their families is of utmost importance (article 20 CRC), growing evidence shows that the preservation and access to the child’s identity in this process – including name, nationality and family relations (article 8 CRC) – is of equal importance. Even when children have grown up in a loving and secure family…
This seminar was given as part of the Korean Adoptee Adoption Research Network's inaugural seminar series, The Right to Know. Each speaker of the series discussed the concept of the right to origin and examined the broader social, legal and political implications in South Korea as a sending country along with experiences from North America and Europe as receiving countries.
Muslim beliefs and practices with regard to the adoption of children and foster care is currently a subject of increasing attention. Besides various circumstances that can leave many Muslim children in the care of social services, the urgent needs of unaccompanied minors coming to the UK and Europe from war-torn countries have highlighted particular challenges. Meanwhile, legal issues related to the definition of adoption and its Islamic alternative (kafala) remain a longstanding problem, often resulting in families divided across borders. Responding to such concerns, Muslim…
The National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) is a five-year project working with eight sites that will implement evidence-based interventions or develop and test promising practices which if proven effective can be replicated or adapted in other child welfare jurisdictions. Effective interventions are expected to achieve long-term, stable permanence in adoptive and guardianship homes for waiting children as well as children and families after adoption or guardianship has been finalized.
This webinar presented learning from the…
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.
This video series from Better Care Network, in partnership with Child's i Foundation, highlights promising practices in children's care in Uganda. The series of six videos captures practice-based learning and each video in the series is accompanied by a one-page discussion paper.
Videos in the series include:
This documentary from 'Real Stories' tells the stories of three young adults who were born in Romania and spent their early years in large-scale institutions. These young adults were later adopted by familes in the UK. The documentary explores their journeys to finding their birth families in Romania.
Data-driven decision making (DDDM) is a way to determine a course of action based on quality data. It uses data systematically and intelligently to assess, test, and improve a program, activity, or process.
DDDM is about getting the right data to the right people at the right time to effectively use the data to problem-solve and improve performance. It can help child welfare organizations identify and respond to emerging trends and needs among children and families.
This three-part video series shows how a fictional organization, Greene County Department of Human Services, set out to…