The second edition of the ISS Special Series on the Draft UN Guidelines on Alternative Care explores the principles of the Guidelines governing the prevention of resort to alternative care through strengthening the family unit, preventing separation and promoting family reintegration where possible.
The article highlights the experience of a Romanian support centre that has seen positive outcomes in their work with young mothers and children to prevent child abandonment. The Fondation Children Action opened the Kairos Centre in Bucharest in order to provide support to young girls in their role as mothers and in their socio-professional reintegration and, whenever possible, to help them re-establish contacts with their family. The ISS edition documents the success achieved thus far in the prevention of abandonment for the families served.
