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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Better Volunteering, Better Care

Better Volunteering, Better Care was an interagency initiative, co-facilitated by Better Care Network and Save the Children UK, aimed at discouraging international volunteering in residential care centers and promoting ethical volunteering alternatives supporting children and families. In 2015, in response to strategy discussions that greater impact could be achieved if the coalition focused at a country level, BVBC members in Australia adapted

Bright Hope

Bright Hope is a Christian faith-based organization that partners with local churches to provide family-based care to orphaned children, including through support and training for families caring for orphans.

Care

CARE International works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice, putting women and girls at the center. CARE International operates in more than 90 countries around the world, running poverty-fighting programmes and delivering life-saving aid in 79 developing countries.

Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Its mission is to assist impoverished and disadvantaged people overseas, including those affected by HIV/AIDS, emergencies, and trafficking. CRS leads the 4Children Project, a 5-year, USAID-funded project improving the health and well-being of vulnerable children affected by HIV and AIDS and other adversities.

Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF)

CRCF is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of East Anglia, UK, which conducts research and advocacy on vulnerable children and families, including alternative care.

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 Helpline International

Child Helpline International Foundation (CHI) is the global network of 192 child helplines in 145 countries (November 2014), which together receive over 14 million contacts a year from children and young people in need of care and protection.

Child Identity Protection

Child Identity Protection is the only international not for profit organisation solely advocating for the protection of children's identity rights in family relations. Child Identity Protection was registered as an independent association according to the Swiss Civil Code in 2020 to broadly protect children's identity rights, including name, nationality and family relations. Child Identity Protection works with States and other stakeholders to provide preventive measures and appropriate responses whenever a child is (illegally) dep

Child Protection in Crisis (CPC) Learning Network

The CPC Learning Network convenes academics, policymakers, and practitioners to promote innovative research, nurture communities of learning, and build the next generation of researchers and advocates for children and families worldwide. The CPC Learning Network works to strengthen the protection, care and welfare of children through research and advocacy.

Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (CP MERG)

Established in 2010, the CP MERG is a global forum for collaboration, coordination and shared learning on child protection monitoring, evaluation and research. The CP MERG aims at strengthening the quality of monitoring and evaluation, research and data collection in child protection, through the development of standards, tools and recommendations. The Better Care Network is a core member of CP MERG.