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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Terre des Hommes International Federation

Terre des Hommes International Federation is a network of 10 national organizations working for the rights of children including issues around children on the move and children without adequate care.

The Children's Society

The Children's Society was founded in 1881 by Edward Rudolf, a young Sunday school teacher and civil servant in South London. The organization started with small group homes for children for poor and homeless children. In 1969, the organization introduced a daycare program to support single-parent families to stay together. The organization began closing its small group homes and moved toward supporting young people in their families and communities.

The Code

The Code (short for “The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism”) is a multi-stakeholder initiative with the mission to provide awareness, tools and support to the tourism industry to prevent the sexual exploitation of children.

The Know-How Center for Alternative Child Care

The Know-How Center for Alternative Child Care is a consulting and research organization working with the government to stop using institutional care for children and develop community services. The know-how center is working to ensure that the deinstitutionalization of the children in Bulgaria is done in a way that values the uniqueness of each child, respects his / her opinion and supports parents and communities in providing a secure family environment.

The Palladium Group

Palladium is in the business of making the world a better place, and we believe that collaborative models and systemic approaches are the way to achieve progress and success.

It's no longer enough to pursue social progress or commercial growth. In fact, we don't believe you can have one without the other. When you have both, that's what we call "Positive Impact".

The Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families

The UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families is a new UCLA campus-wide initiative focused on the needs of children and youth who are disconnected from traditional pathways to success, in particular foster youth. The new center will serve as a collaborative hub for research, prevention and intervention efforts, working to strengthen families to prevent children from entering the child welfare system, and to support those in it.

Their Future Today

Their Future Today works to improve and develop the lives of disadvantaged children in Sri Lanka, by preventing the abandonment of children, reuniting children into their families, providing education in rural areas and transforming institutions.

This Life Cambodia

This Life Cambodia is a community development organization with programs focused in three practice areas:

Children and Families
Education
Community Research and Consultancy

The goal of their Children and Families programming is for children to be protected and supported to remain within or return to their families and communities.

This Life Cambodia is a member of Family Care First.

TIA Bolivia

TIA is an Australian grassroots non-profit organisation working in Bolivia. Their goal is to empower 5000 young people to successfully transition from state care into independence and to make positive change in their communities.

Together Facing the Challenge (TFTC)

Together Facing the Challenge (TFTC) is a program based out of Duke University in the United States. It is designed to be a low-cost approach to improving treatment within the existing structure & practice of a wide range of treatment foster care (TFC) agencies. The training and consultation approach is used by TFTC to improve the skills of treatment parents and their TFC agency staff.