Family Care First (FCF) is a USAID supported project with the goal of making lasting improvements in the well-being of Cambodia’s children. FCF, led by Save the Children, assists children outside of family care or those at risk of losing family care. It seeks to prevent unnecessary separation of children from their families and enable children to be placed in appropriate family care.
FCF supported the study and documentation of existing reintegration and alternative family care services provided by seven implementing partners in Cambodia. These services included: family reintegration services, kinship care; long and short-term foster care; and semiindependent supported living.
The objectives of the research were to:
1. Enhance understanding of best approaches to reintegrating and placing children in alternative care programs and how to effectively scale and strengthen them in the future
2. Establish and enhance the understanding of scalable standard operating procedures to reintegrating and placing children in alternative care programs.
This brief includes an outline of key findings of the study and concludes with recommendations based on those findings.
Read the full report here.
