Readjusting to Parenthood: Peer Support Groups for Grandparents Assuming Care for Orphaned Children (Upendo Village, Kenya)

Readjusting to Parenthood: Peer Support Groups for Grandparents Assuming Care for Orphaned Children (Upendo Village, Kenya)
Better Care Network

When parents pass away, grandparents often assume the role of caregivers. Being thrust back into parenthood during a time of immense grief, and with a two-generation gap to bridge, introduces a range of challenges grandparents must overcome. This video look at the learning of practitioners from Upendo Village in Kenya in supporting grandparents caring for grandchildren after their own children have passed away from HIV/AIDs.

Grandmothers are Part of the Parenting Network, Too! A longitudinal study on coparenting, maternal sensitivity, child attachment and behavior problems in a Chinese sample

Grandmothers are Part of the Parenting Network, Too! A longitudinal study on coparenting, maternal sensitivity, child attachment and behavior problems in a Chinese sample
Xi Liang, Yige Lin, Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn, Zhengyan Wang

Grandmothers are important in Chinese families. This study explored the early emerging mother-grandmother-infant network and its association with a child's socioemotional development in multigenerational families in a non-WEIRD country. 

Case Study: Malaika Babies Home Uganda

Case Study: Malaika Babies Home Uganda
Better Care Network, Child's i Foundation, USAID

Overtime, and after realising the full cost of running even a small residential program, and witnessing first-hand the developmental gains made by children once placed in foster care, Child’s i Foundation made a decision to fully transition and phase out their residential care program entirely.

Cycles of Exploitation: The Links Between Children's Institutions and Human Trafficking

Cycles of Exploitation: The Links Between Children's Institutions and Human Trafficking
Emiel Coltof and Abigail Munroe

This Global Thematic Review examines the growing evidence of the links between the institutionalisation of children and human trafficking. It highlights how the relationship between the two compounds the harmful nature of both phenomena and offers insight into the global response needed.

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.

Voor hen is Kinderen zonder ‘thuis’ bedoeld.

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.

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.