Haiti Mama provides a community-based service alternative to orphanages. They work to reunite children with kin, rehabilitate impoverished parents, and restore broken family systems. Their services empower each client to meet their own individualized goals for sustaining themselves and their families. They are committed to ethical practices that show dignity to the people they serve.
Where they operate
Organization Type
Main Areas of Work
What They Do
Haiti Mama works with the Haitian Government to reunite children in orphanages with their families. They empower two generations of each family through education + employment services to break the cycle of poverty. They use evidence-based social work practice + theory to achieve outcomes.
Residential Care Service Transition Support
Supports they have offered, or plan to offer, include:
- Introducing the importance of family care and reintegration to leaders in the organization
- Strategy and planning for the transition
- Donor and board engagement
- Community awareness raising and engagement
- Partnerships
- Government engagement and linking to systems reforms
- Assessments of children and families
- Family tracing
- Preparing children and families for transition
- Social work or case management training or support
- Staffing adjustments or training
- Use of buildings and other assets
- Developing new programs, including:
- Family and community strengthening
- Alternative family care (including kinship care, foster care, adoption)
- Advocacy
- Provide funding for the transition
- General coaching or consultation
- Onsite training
- Online training
- Onsite visits/meetings
- Phone calls/video conference
- Provision of standards and written guidance or tools for transitioning
- Connecting with others or building a network
We plan to support transitions in Haiti.