Preparing street connected children for foster care
In this video, Dinah Mwesigye, a social worker at Retrak in Kampala, Uganda, describes Retrak’s work with street-connected children to prepare them for foster care.
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Prevention of family separation
In this video, Juliet Birungi, a social worker at Abide Family Center in Jinja, Uganda, describes the Center’s work to preserve families and prevent family separation.
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Transitioning from a Babies' Home to professional foster care
In this video, Maureen Orogot, a Social Worker at Child’s i Foundation in Uganda, shares the progress Child’s i Foundation has made on transitioning from a residential care model of alternative care to professional foster care.
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Community care for children with special needs
In this video, social worker Diana Nyakarungi describes how Ekisa Ministries in Jinja, Uganda supports parents to care for their children with special needs within the community.
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Adoption for Hard to Place Children
In this video, social worker Evelyn Nateza describes the process used by Child's i Foundation to find Ugandan adoptive families for hard-to-place children.
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Finding foster families for street connected children
In this video, Dinah Mwesigye, a social worker at Retrak in Kampala, Uganda, describes the process of finding foster families for street-connected children who are not able to be reunified with their biological families.
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Childonomics Introduction to the conceptual framework and methodology
The Childonomics project has developed an instrument that can help to reflect on the long-term social and economic return of investing in children and families.
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Workshop on Depression in Children and Young Persons Living in Alternative Care: Challenges and Possibilities
This document provides a full report of the workshop on “Depression in Children and Young Persons living in Alternative Care: Challenges and Possibilities.”
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A Familiar Face: Violence in the lives of children and adolescents
A Familiar Face: Violence in the lives of children and adolescents uses the most current data to shed light on four specific forms of violence: violent discipline and exposure to domestic abuse during early childhood; violence at school; violent deaths among adolescents; and sexual violence in childhood and adolescence.
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Children’s Experiences of Violence: Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
This brief paper highlights some of Young Lives key findings on violence affecting children, exploring what children say about violence, how it affects them, and the key themes that emerges from a systematic analysis of the children’s accounts.
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