Catholic Care for Children: Principles, Beginnings, & Impact

Catholic Care for Children: Principles, Beginnings, & Impact
Catholic Care for Children - A Family for Every Child

Catholic Care for Children (CCC) is a visionary initiative, led by Catholic sisters, to see children growing up in safe, nurturing families. Guided by the biblical mandate to care for the most vulnerable and animated by the principles of Catholic Social Teaching—especially the dignity of each person—CCC teams are reducing the need for institutional care by encouraging and facilitating family- and community-based care for children.

Kinderen zonder ‘thuis’

Kinderen zonder ‘thuis’
Mirjam Vossen, Loïs Batteux, Patricia Nieuwenhuizen

Miljoenen kinderen in ontwikkelingslanden kunnen tijdelijk of langdurig niet thuis wonen. Soms omdat hun ouders zijn overleden of omdat de problemen thuis te groot zijn. Soms omdat ze zijn weggelopen of van hun familie gescheiden door oorlogen, rampen of kinderhandelaren. Het lot van deze kwetsbare kinderen gaat veel mensen aan het hart. Ze starten een project, doen vrijwilligerswerk met kinderen of ondersteunen een weeshuis.

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Children Without a 'Home'

Children Without a 'Home'
Mirjam Vossen, Loïs Batteux, Patricia Nieuwenhuizen

Millions of children in developing countries are unable to live at home for a variety of reasons. The fate of these children is a concern for many people. Some start projects, volunteer with children or support an orphanage. This guide is for them. It is also important for organisations that do not specifically focus on vulnerable children. Because children without sufficient paren-tal care are everywhere: in schools, villages and poor areas in big cities.

Webinar Recording: Transforming Children's Care Webinar #7: Foster Care

Webinar Recording: Transforming Children's Care Webinar #7: Foster Care
Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform

This webinar, co-hosted with the Martin James Foundation, explores lessons learned in the development and strengthening of foster care systems in a number of countries and contexts, including emerging foster care systems in Bulgaria, Uganda, Cambodia, and Bangladesh as well as the more established foster care system in the UK, with a view to examining challenges and successes in implementation.

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Participant Handbook Companion: Practical Life Skills - A workshop for care leavers and those who have recently left care aged 18 to 25 years

Participant Handbook Companion: Practical Life Skills - A workshop for care leavers and those who have recently left care aged 18 to 25 years
Kenya Society of Care Leavers, Changing the Way We Care

This participants handbook has come into being by care leavers for care leavers. It has been developed based on the myriad of challenges shared and experienced by care leavers, hoping with the hope that it will support others leaving care.

Facilitator's Guide: Practical Life Skills - Workshops for care leavers and those who have recently left care aged 18 to 25 years old

Facilitator's Guide: Practical Life Skills - Workshops for care leavers and those who have recently left care aged 18 to 25 years old
Kenya Society of Care Leavers, Changing the Way We Care

This series of resources are designed by care leavers for care leavers to help equip youth for life outside of care, strengthen coping strategies, foster safety nets and community networks. It builds from earlier life skills work that the Kenyan Society of Care Leavers has done, supported by Changing the Way We Care with global best practices.

Facilitator's Guide: Practical Life Skills - Workshops for care leavers and those remaining in care aged 14 to 17 years old

Facilitator's Guide: Practical Life Skills - Workshops for care leavers and those remaining in care aged 14 to 17 years old
Kenya Society of Care Leavers, Changing the Way We Care

This series of resources are designed by care leavers for care leavers to help equip youth for life outside of care, strengthen coping strategies, foster safety nets and community networks. This Facilitator's Guide is based on the 10 to 13 guidebook and 18 to 25 guidebook.

Facilitator Guide: Practical Life Skills - Workshops for care leavers and those remaining in care aged 10 to 13 years old

Facilitator Guide: Practical Life Skills - Workshops for care leavers and those remaining in care aged 10 to 13 years old
Kenya Society of Care Leavers, Changing the Way We Care

This series of resources are designed by care leavers for care leavers to help equip youth for life outside of care, strengthen coping strategies, foster safety nets and community networks. It builds from earlier life skills work that the Kenyan Society of Care Leavers has done, supported by Changing the Way We Care with global best practices.

Policy Brief: International Review of Parent Advocacy in Child Welfare

Policy Brief: International Review of Parent Advocacy in Child Welfare
Better Care Network, International Parent Advocacy Network

This policy brief summarizes the key findings and recommendations from the International Review of Parent Advocacy in Child Welfare in low, middle and high-income countries, and identifies elements of a strategy to strengthen children’s care and protection through parent participation.

Put Children First: Recommendations to End Orphanage Volunteering and the Institutionalisation of Children

Put Children First: Recommendations to End Orphanage Volunteering and the Institutionalisation of Children
Put Children First: End Orphanage Care Campaign

Research has shown the harm of orphanage care on children’s health, development and wellbeing and how orphanage volunteering is working to perpetuate these institutional systems which separate children from their families and communities. There is now a global movement to end both practices. These key policy recommendations were published as part of the "Put Children First: End Orphanage Care" campaign.