Organizations Working on Children's Care

This page offers a Directory of Organizations working on children’s care issues around the world, at a local, national, regional, and/or global level. The Directory is provided to encourage information sharing and communication between actors working in this sector.

Please note that the inclusion or exclusion of organizations in this Directory does not necessarily entail any judgement or endorsement on the part of BCN or its advisory group on the quality of their programs or services. In line with BCN's Mission, criteria for adding an organization to the Directory include evidence of relevant work in the areas of family strengthening, prevention of separation, alternative care, reintegration and transition from care, care reform, and other relevant areas. We are continuing to expand our directory and welcome suggestions of additional organizations to highlight.

Note: Choosing 'Global' from the drop-down menu below will produce a list of organizations that work at the global level (not a list of all organizations).

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Buckner International

Buckner International is a Christian ministry dedicated to the transformation and restoration of the lives they serve. Their mission is to serve vulnerable children, families and seniors.

Buckner International has offices in the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Peru, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Kenya.

Care for Children

Care for Children partners with governments in Asia to help create a positive alternative to institutional care through local family-based care for disadvantaged children. Care For Children’s vision is to see a million children moved from institutional care into families.

Changing the Way We Care

Changing The Way We Care℠ (CTWWC) is an initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children: those reunifying from residential care facilities (also known as “orphanages”) or those at risk of child-family separation. This includes strengthening families and reforming national systems of care for children, including family reunification and reintegration, and development of alternative family-based care. CTWWC envisions a world where all children thrive in safe and nurturing families.

Child Hope International

Child Hope International started as an orphanage in 2004 and helped hundreds of children by providing meals, a home, education, and other needs. But there was one need the orphanage couldn’t fill - the sense of belonging which is only experienced in a loving family. Today, Child Hope International is doing orphan care differently. In 2017 they shifted their model to family-based care and began reunifying children with families. In 2021 they launched the Transition Support Services program, helping other Haitian orphanages transition to family-based care.

Child in Family Focus - Kenya

Child in Family Focus – Kenya works to reform the child care system in Kenya to ensure all children grow up in safe families by advocating for family-based alternative care and assisting long term residential care programs to undergo deinstitutionalisation.

ChildFund Uganda

ChildFund International began in 1938, first as China's Children Fund and later as Christian Children's Fund. Their approach has evolved into one of community development, focused on strengthening families and community structures that make up a child’s environment. ChildFund has served children in Uganda since 1980.

Children in Families

Children in Families (CIF) is a local Cambodian NGO, registered with the Ministry of the Interior since 2009, dedicated to providing high-quality family-based care for orphans and vulnerable children in Cambodia. CIF advocates locally and globally for the belief that the best place for a child to grow up is in a loving family. CIF offers three streams of family care programming: short-term Emergency Care, Kinship Care and Foster Care.

Child’s i Foundation

Child’s i Foundation works with the government, local partners, grassroot organisations, and a movement of parents and their children, to highlight the harm and cost of orphanages in Uganda and globally.

Child’s i Foundation is building a roadmap for sustainable alternatives to orphanages: Truly social services run by and for communities to strengthen families and provide the support needed to raise their children in safe and loving families.

Chosen & Dearly Loved

Children who have endured the trauma of separation from family need a champion. Chosen & Dearly Loved works to find a loving and permanent family, preferably biological family whenever possible, for every child through four areas of impact: Family Reunification, Adoption Grants, Family Support, and Advocacy

Learn more about Chosen and Dearly Loved's campaign to transition orphanages to family reunification centers, 1MillionHome.

Family Finding

The Family Finding model, developed by Kevin A. Campbell, offers methods and strategies to locate and engage relatives of children currently living in out-of-home care. The goal of Family Finding is to connect each child with a family, so that every child may benefit from the lifelong connections that only a family provides.