While children are now found on the streets of cities in both the developing and developed world, programmes for street children have a longer evolutionary history in developing countries, and in particular Latin America. Through systematic research and attention to the voices of street children and their families, policy makers and practitioners are moving from understanding the more observable risks posed to children in the street environment, to the conditions that push children there in the first place. Given what we have learned about the processes that create street children, to what extent can the movement of children to street life be anticipated? Can organizations employ interventions that reduce the likelihood of children moving to the street?
This resource pack was developed to help organisations share ideas and experiences on how they respond to these problems. Case studies from Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Angola, and Ethiopia illustrate the ways by which some agencies have identified which children are at highest risk of street living and developed intervention strategies to address these vulnerable groups.
Chapter titles include:
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JUCONI’s experience with prevention programmes – Mexico and Ecuador
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Family Structure Problems, Child Mistreatment, Street Children and Drug use: A Community-Based Approach in Peru
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Creating policies which address the ‘voluntary separation’ of children in Angola
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Community-based approaches to the Prevention of Street Migration in Ethiopia
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Child to Child and Children who live or work on the streets: preventative strategies
A bibliography, and list of addresses should make it easier to contact other agencies linked to the Consortium for Street Children in whose work you have an interest.
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