LAMb International is a Canadian-based Christian organization that provides training, consultation and program development to ensure safety, permanence and well-being for children, youth, and their families.
Where they operate
Headquarters Location
406 – 33 Ellen St.
Barrie ON L4N 6E9
Canada
Organization Type
Main Areas of Work
What They Do
Location
Global
Implementation
Directly
The objectives of LAMb include:
- To provide social workers with the necessary training and tools to enable them to help orphaned and abandoned children overseas;
- To relieve poverty by providing basic amenities, including food and supplies to orphaned and abandoned children overseas;
- To provide not-for-profit hospitals and clinics with medical and dental equipment;
- To advance education by providing elementary school education to orphaned children overseas;
- To assist in the adoption process of abandoned and orphaned children by designing and implementing a program model for Christian orphanages.
Residential Care Service Transition Support
Location
Global
Implementation
Directly
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
- 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
- Mentoring and Transition program for older orphans
- 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
LAMb International plans to support transitions in all 32 countries in which we work. We have a vetting system for training and by using this vetting strategy, we work together with our partners to change paradigms, conduct assessments and do strategic planning for next steps. Our approach to supporting residential care centers to transition involves education, strategic planning and building partnerships.