Country Care Snapshots

Guatemala

Formal Alternative Care Arrangements
Effective
Total Formal Family-Based Care
Foster Care
63 Children
150 Settings
Information provided via phone call with the Foster Care Program of the SBS, 14 April 2020
Kinship Care
Total Formal Residential Care
Larger Institutions
3,863 Children
146 Settings
National Census of Residential Care Facilities, 2019
Small Group Homes
Transit Centres/Shelters
1 Settings
Secretaría de Bienestar Social de la Presidencia
Lancet Global Study Estimate of Children Living in Institutional Care
10,939 Children
Desmond, et al, 2020