Tiegan Boyens, ATD Fourth World and Teen Advocacy

This resolution on orphanage trafficking was adopted by consensus at the 147th IPU Assembly and endorsed by 180 parliaments.

To commemorate their 10th anniversary as an Alliance, this year’s Symposium took place on October 26, 2023, and offered a retrospective view of the Cape Town conference and the impact it achieved, both in the participating countries and globally. Then, through a deep dive into the experiences of three other countries— Romania, Rwanda and Viet Nam—it will explore the different ways countries have made progress in strengthening their workforce over the past decade and will highlight the continuing and emerging challenges facing the workforce in each country.

Join this webinar to learn how care reform advocates can use budget analysis, cost estimates and evidence on long-term economic benefits to make the case for investing in a more a child-centered social welfare system.

Tiegan Boyens, of ATD Fourth World and Teen Advocacy, shares about the importance of staying connected to birth family as an adoptee as well as maintaining other connections such as friendships made throughout childhood. 

This 5-week hybrid learning course, offered through the CAFO Research Center, explores the key pieces of effective family strengthening, such as learning how to identify families that need support, building relationships with families, helping families to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and creating a care plan to deliver services.  

In collaboration with the Better Care Network (BCN) and the UNICEF Child Protection Division, the Alliance will be facilitating a global task force, of 8-10 members, to exchange and document learning on the role of the social service workforce in transition from reliance on residential institutions to a focus on enabling family- and community-based care wherever possible.

In this webinar, a new paper on strategies to prevent family separation is presented. Examples from Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Namibia are presented.