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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Quality for Children

Quality for Children is an initiative by SOS Children’s Villages, IFCO and FICE to develop the Quality4Children Standards - a set of quality standards for out-of-home child and youth care in Europe.

Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI)

QPI is a national movement for foster care system change, made up of a network of states, counties and private agencies committed to ensuring that all children in care have excellent parenting and lasting relationships so they can thrive and grow.

Rabbit School Organization

The Rabbit School is a Cambodian NGO that was established in May 1997 as a Pilot Project to provide education for children with special needs at the Nutrition Centre, a governmental orphanage founded in Phnom Penh in 1982 for children in the age from 0-6 years, who were abandoned or whose parents were killed during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979). The Rabbit School’s mission is oriented toward the rehabilitation and full integration of people with intellectual disabilities into Cambodian society, focusing specifically on Children and Youth with Intellectual Disabilities.

Raising Futures Kenya (Formerly Vision Africa)

Raising Futures Kenya (formerly Vision Africa) is a UK Christian charity, supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged children throughout Kenya. They partner with communities to develop systems that will facilitate deinstitutionalization and empower vulnerable families to take care of children at risk of being placed in orphanages. These might include social work intervention or education sponsorships depending on the family situation.

Red een Kind (Help A Child)

Red een Kind (Help A Child) is a Dutch Christian organization aimed at giving a future to children living in poverty through child-centered community development projects focused on engaging families, communities, and larger society to support children in need.

Red Latinoamericana de Egresados de Protección

La Red Latinoamericana de Egresados de Protección es un grupo de organizaciones de latinoamérica que trabaja para mejorar la vida de todos los adolescentes y jóvenes que viven o vivieron en dispositivos de cuidado estatal. La Red trabaja para visibilizar la situación de los adolescentes y jóvenes que viven o vivieron en dispositivos alternativos de cuidado y para ello: impulsa investigaciones, concreta acciones buscando incidir en políticas públicas e incentiva la participación de los jóvenes fortaleciendo la vinculación entre instituciones y egresados.

REDANDI

The Network was established in 2003 as a joint initiative of non-governmental organizations dedicated to the promotion of children's rights in Latin America. Its mission is to support consolidation of a journalistic culture that strengthens the public visibility of the priority issues of for these segments of the population and contributes to human and social development, equality and equity.

REDLAMYC

The Latin American and Caribbean Network for the Defense of the Rights of Children and Adolescents is a network of national networks and non-governmental organizations for children and adolescents in the Latin America and Caribbean region that are dedicated to active participation in the defense of the rights of children and adolescents in the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education

The Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education (Oxford University), aims to make a difference, through research and its application, to the life chances of children and young people in foster care and those who have experienced care.

RELAF

RELAF (Latin American Foster Care Network, for the right to community and family- based care for children and adolescents) has promoted and supported the work of NGOs and governments to make the right of every child to live in a family and a community a reality since 2003.