Community Based Care Mechanisms

The Guidelines for the Alternative Care for Children highlight the importance of providing children with care within family-type settings in their own communities.  This allows girls and boys to maintain ties with natural support networks such as relatives, friends and neighbours, and minimizes disruption to their education, cultural and social life.  Keeping children within their communities (ideally as close as possible to their original homes), also allows girls and boys to stay in touch with their families, and facilitates potential reintegration.

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Justin Rogers, Sam Carr, Caroline Hickman - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper presents a community based participatory research project, which adopted a photovoice approach with seven unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) living in foster care in the United Kingdom.

Children’s Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families ,

This Resource Guide was developed to support service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to prevent child abuse and neglect and promote child and family well-being.

Anuja Bansal - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care,

This article from the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care describes the Family Based Care (FBC) program by SOS Children's Villages of India.

ChildFund International,

This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from both households at risk of separation and reintegrating households to understand how the “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project in Uganda” (DOVCU) package of integrated social and economic interventions affects children and households differently depending on the sex of the child, caregiver, and/or household head.

Modi, Kiran; Anbalagan, Emaya; Shroff, Radhika; Singhal, Nidhi - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care,

This article presents the findings of the Questionnaire to Assess Needs of Children in Care (QANCC), a tool designed to gather children's direct input on the management of Udayan Care's care homes in India.

Therese Boje Mortensen - Asia in Focus,

This study contributes to a body of scholarship on ‘localising children’s rights’ by presenting findings from an ethnographic case study of an institution for HIV-infected/affected children in Rajasthan, India.

ChildFund International,

This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from the first of the project’s stated objectives: examining the extent to which “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project interventions decrease vulnerabilities for households and children at risk of separation.

Luca Fazzi - Child & Family Social Work,

The article presents the results of an empirical pilot study carried out on a sample of 24 child protection social workers employed in four public agencies in Italy.

John Ringson - African Journal of Social Work,

This study sought to examine the feasibility of rejuvenating and strategically repositioning the Zunde raMambo (King’s granary) as a traditional orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) coping mechanism in Zimbabwe with a special reference to Gutu District.

Lucy Jamieson & Linda Richter - South African Child Gauge 2017,

This essay critically engages with the 2030 Global Agenda and assesses the potential of the SDGs to transform our world to enable all children – regardless of race, gender, ability, or social background – to not only survive but thrive.