SFAC aims to ensure that everyone providing care for vulnerable children can access training and professional support that is accessible, adaptable and applicable to their own culture and context. They work closely with local partners to help them set up and implement systems and procedures appropriate to their organisation to allow them to provide the best possible care for the children they work with.
The Problem:
- Millions of children live in orphanages
- Millions of children are abused and neglected
- Millions of children are being cared for by unqualified/untrained staff
- Lots of organisations working with children cannot afford good quality training and support.
Where they operate
Headquarters Location
c/o Bridge Community Church Rider Street, Burmantofts Leeds LS9 7BQ
United Kingdom
Organization Type
Main Areas of Work
What They Do
The Solution:
- SFAC gives knowledge on why children belong in safe families and not orphanages
- SFAC equips organisations with the skills to provide safe family care
- SFAC provides practical resources to support the new knowledge and skills.
The Dream:
- For every child around the world to have a safe family to belong to and be loved by
- And, for SFAC to be able to offer support to any organisation that asks for our help to make this possible.
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
- therapeutic care;
- supervision of key staff;
- mentoring/coaching staff;
- online training;
- training and development work with governments and judiciary;
- reviews of practice;
- policy and procedure reviews for organisations;
- 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
SFAC plans to support transitions around the world. There is an initial assessment process to consider if we are the right organisation for you, we then develop a joint partner plan and agree a work plan that is then regularly reviewed and continues as long as an organisation wants it. We work in partnership from an assessment of need - working on strengths and identifying areas of improvement that builds internal capacity of the organisation at your own pace in line with the organisations resources, culture and legal frameworks. We build knowledge, skills and resources within the organisation and its staff to develop safe and high levels of practice that ensures each child receives individual care. There is no one model to do this. It will vary from organisation.