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Parenting is critical in supporting and shaping children’s developmental outcomes. Parenting programs and resources help to support caregivers’ own growth and well-being as well. The importance of parenting is documented in a large body of research detailing how parenting of children, particularly that which is safe and nurturing, is related to subsequent cognitive, behavioral and socioemotional development, and directly influences how caregivers interact with other major socializing forces to promote children’s optimal development. Family strengthening approaches such as parenting skills…
Background
The rights of persons with disabilities, to live in a family within their communities and be given equal opportunities and freedom of choice alike other citizens, is at the heart of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). However, this can only be achieved if states invest in ensuring that citizens with disabilities have access to inhome and community-based provisions from the early stages of their lives (Márton et al., 2013).
Like all signatory states, Rwanda is fully committed to the rights of children with disabilities and other special…
This is a Training Module for the Inshuti z’Umuryango volunteer community-based cadre to support the implementation of the Tubarerere Mu Muryango (TMM) Programme (‘Let’s raise children in families’) led by the National Child Development Agency (NCD).
The purpose of this Training Module is to build awareness amongst the Inshuti z’Umuryango (IZU) community cadre on the rights and needs of children with disabilities, so that they can be allies in helping children with disabilities and families to live in their communities free from stigma and discrimination.
The Facilitators Manual is…
This document presents a set of minimum standards of care, which it is recommended that residential care facilities (RCFs) strive to adopt, particularly those RCFs engaged with or receiving support from CRS. The standards are designed to be applicable to a variety of residential care settings and are recommended to be used to promote care practices and approaches that contribute to positive child well-being.
The Minimum Standards for the Care of Children in Residential Care Facilities guidance document includes:
- Summary of Minimum Standards for the Care of…
This Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Care Reform represents a collection of work developed from the experience of many practitioners and organizations. As we learn about and scale care reform globally, we must consider disability inclusion in all that we do. Children with disabilities are disproportionately represented in residential care facilities and that they are too often are the last to be reunified with their own families, supported for independent living, or placed in alternative families. The aim of this toolkit is to increase the capacity and confidence of those working…
Raising awareness of disability, disability inclusion and the rights of children with disabilities are key parts of the care reform processes in all countries. Through influencing those who currently operate, fund, support or develop policies around the residential care facilities (sometimes called institutions, children’s homes or orphanages) we can ensure that children with disabilities are not left behind. The policy makers with responsibility for systems of care and protection, providers of services for children, families and communities all may stigmatize or discriminate against families…
This guidance specifically refers to mapping of services as the process of locating and sharing information to a wide range of people about available services to support children with disabilities and their families.
The mapping of services and resources to support inclusion of children with disabilities involves finding out what services and resources are available, their quality and their accessibility. By creating this type of listing, social workers, other professionals working with children/families and families themselves know where they can go to…
This is a presentation for a half-day workshop on participation and self-advocacy approaches for working with children with disabilities and their families; includes slides, facilitation notes and a sample list of country-specific disability rights.
The target audience are family strengthening and care reform practitioners or residential care facilities to promote disability inclusion in family strengthening or care reform
Use this workshop package to build staff capacity to meaningfully promote participation of children with disabilities in care reform activities; this package may also…
This facilitator’s guide accompanies the workshop slides by the same title, Introduction to the Identification of Developmental Delay and Disability. It is designed to be used by the person providing the workshop, often called “the facilitator” or “the trainer”.
It is suggested that participants complete the half-day workshop on disability inclusion included in Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Care Reform as a foundation for this workshop.
Each session section of this guide provides…
The terminology and tips that follow may help as you use the Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Care Reform Toolkit and apply its principles to your program activities. It is recommended that you become familiar with these terms before reading the rest of the content and revisit as needed. Please keep in mind that disability is an evolving concept. Language that is preferred in one context may be different in…