Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) promotes safe, nurturing family care for children reintegrating from residential care facilities (often referred to as orphanages) and prevents child-family separation by strengthening families, reforming national systems of care for children, and working to shift donor and volunteer support away from residential care and toward family care alternatives. Launched on October 1, 2018, the CTWWC initiative is organized around three main strategic objectives: (1) Governments promote family care; (2) Children stay in or return to safe and nurturing families; and (3) Key stakeholders make meaningful commitments toward family care. The second year of the initiative is summarized in this report of progress.
Year Two was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw activities suspended in early March and numerous immediate and ongoing impacts on children and families across the world. This created a need for CTWWC to revise some of its approaches; namely to shift to virtual operations and remote support for children and families. Impacts from COVID-19 were felt throughout the initiative, from direct case management work with children and families to global management and learning activities. Despite this, the solid foundation established in Year One allowed CTWWC to respond rapidly and adapt plans and implementation.
