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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Global Movement for Children (GMC)

The Global Movement for Children (GMC) is the worldwide movement of organisations, people and children uniting efforts to build a world fit for children.

Global Orphan Project

The Global Orphan Project is a Christian faith-based organization that seeks innovative ways to expand the capacity of churches to care for vulnerable children and families in their own communities. Around the world, the Global Orphan Project supports local churches to care for children through church-centered orphan care, transition, education and family-strengthening programs. In the U.S., they connect at-risk children served by the child welfare system to churches and individuals who want to help.

Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities (GPcwd)

The GPcwd provides a platform for collective action and advocacy to ensure that the rights of children with disabilities are included in and prioritized by both the disability and child rights agendas at the global, regional, and country levels. The GPcwd Partnership is a global multi-stakeholder coalition, representing more than 260 organizations, including international, national and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs); disabled people’s organizations (DPOs); academia; young advocates; governments and the private sector.

Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children was launched in July 2016 by the UN Secretary-General. Today, the End Violence Partnership is the only global entity focused solely on Sustainable Development Goal 16.2: ending all forms of violence against children. The Partnership is made up of over 500 partners, including governments, UN agencies, research institutions, international non-governmental organisations, foundations, civil society organisations, private sector groups, and more.

Global Social Service Workforce Alliance

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance aims to strengthen the social service workforce and to contribute to stronger, more effective social service systems around the world. The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance works toward a world where a well-planned, well-trained and well-supported social service workforce effectively delivers promising practices that improve the lives of vulnerable populations.

GOAL Ireland

GOAL's mission is "to work towards ensuring that the poorest and most vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the fundamental rights of life, including but not limited to adequate shelter, food, water and sanitation, healthcare and education." GOAL’s Children's Empowerment and Protection (CEP) sector focuses on high vulnerability populations of children, often in the most extreme of situations (e.g. street children, child prostitutes and child migrant labourers).

Gudjagang Ngara Li-Dhi Aboriginal Corporation

Gudjagang Ngara li-dhi is an Aboriginal organisation on the Central Coast of New South Wales (NSW), Australia representing the Aboriginal communities that fall within the Local government catchment area of Wyong.

In 2011 a group of local Aboriginal women concerned for the growing number of Aboriginal children from the area entering out of home care, were driven by a wish to provide care for families, children and young people within the context of their cultural community.

Guidisto

Guidisto-volontariat.fr is the independent portal in French language for flexible and responsible volunteering abroad. They strive to make the volunteering sector better and help organisations who have a positive impact recruit more French speaking volunteers, and motivate the others to become better.

To contact, please fill out the contact form available here.

Hagar International: Cambodia

Hagar was founded in 1994 in response to the prevalence of extreme domestic and community violence affecting women and children in post-civil war Cambodia. Hagar has expanded to work in other countries as well.

Hagar is a member of Family Care First.

Haiti Mama

Haiti Mama provides a community-based service alternative to orphanages. They work to reunite children with kin, rehabilitate impoverished parents, and restore broken family systems. Their services empower each client to meet their own individualized goals for sustaining themselves and their families. They are committed to ethical practices that show dignity to the people they serve.