The Strengthening the Social Service Workforce for Family-Based Care project is a two-year project implemented and managed by the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance with technical support from consultants from Child Frontiers and supported by a grant from the Martin James Foundation. Implemented in Brazil, India and Uganda, it aims to learn from, record and amplify the knowledge and lived experience of youth and children with lived experience of care, their family members, and of social service workers, to develop a range of training and advocacy tools that will strengthen the social service workforce in support of family-based care.
In the first phase of this project, the project’s national partner in Uganda, Child’s i Foundation, used interactive group exercises to help 133 young people and their care givers open up about their experiences of growing up in residential care, foster care and formalized kinship care. They then used the insights and media gathered from the participatory assessments to develop engaging training tools to transform the knowledge, attitudes and practices of social service workers so that they are motivated by, and skilled in, prioritizing family-based care over alternative care. The training tools were then tested with 30 social workers from government agencies, and NGOs, as well as with community volunteers and revised based on their feedback.
The Facilitator manual was developed to guide the training of the social workers and community volunteers.
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