• Preventing Family Separation
• Social Welfare Systems
• Family & Community Based Care
• Good Practice in Care Arrangements
• Particular Threats to Children
• Separated Children in an Emergency
  Preventing Separation Registration, Documentation and Tracing Emergency Care Arrangements Verification and Family Reunification

Emergency Care Arrangements

Mobility Mapping and Flow Diagrams: Tools for Family Tracing and Social Reintegration Work with Separated Children

View document Author: Brigette De Lay, IRC
Date: 2003
File Size: 371KB

WHAT:  Detailed guidance on using drawing with children to facilitate documentation and tracing efforts, as well as a tool for reintegrating separated children into families. 

WHO: Practitioners working with separated children and/or children who are to be reunified or moved to an alternative family placement. 

WHERE:  Global relevance.  Draws on IRC’s experience of working with separated children in Rwanda. 

WHY: A unique resource for working in a child-friendly way to help locate a child’s family or to prepare the child for a move. 

N.B.  For more on preparing children for placement moves please see the resource Working with Children and Families Vol.2.  Life story Work, Louise Melville, 2005