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This series of podcasts from Faith to Action Initiative features the audio from past Faith to Action webinars, including a webinar on The Continuum of Care. "The Continuum of Care" is the audio version of Webinar 2 for on-the-go learners. This podcast looks at the range of alternative care for children who have been separated from parental care and emphasizes family care. Alternative care includes: kinship care, foster care, adoption, and formal residential care such as temporary rehabilitative care and small group homes. Large-scale institutional care is not recommended. This podcast…
This post from the Faith to Action Initiative highlights the work of the Abide Family Center in Uganda, which helps to keep families together. The post features the story of one young mother, Deborah, who was able to keep her children with her, despite the hardships she faced after the death of her husband, because of the services she participated in at the Abide Family Center.
MoSD and UNICEF convened a meeting with judges, legal experts and community-based organizations to discuss strategies and plans for moving away from institutional care and strengthening Jordan's foster care system.
This report from Better Care Network's Care2Practice provides a summary of the 21-22 June 2017 Africa Expert Consultation on Violence…
Article from Tuscon.com (Arizona Daily Star) reporting that federal judge has thrown out challenge to Indian Child Welfare Act.
This article from the PIA notes that the Regional Juvenile Justice and Welfare Committee-10 (RJJWC) is set to present a resolution on forging commitments from local government units to support children at risk and children in conflict with the law.
GHR Foundation has developed an initiative called the Sister Support initiative which engages and help build capacity of Catholic sisters in Uganda in providing care for vulnerable children and children living outside of family care “by combining the best of the Catholic tradition of care with insights from contemporary research.”